Anime
Rose & Camelia - I give you slap!!!
If you made a Jane Austen novel into a fighting game, you’d probably end up with something like Rose & Camelia, a Japanese flash game of 17th century high-society slapping that has to be seen to be believed. It’s quite a bit of fun and features some fairly intuitive controls (click the action button that [...]
Yo-yo Girl Cop (aka: Sukeban Deka 2006) — in SF for one week only!
I don’t know how I didn’t hear about this earlier. Today starts the one week special engagement of Kenta Fukasaku (Battle Royale 2)’s Yo-Yo Girl Cop (aka: Sukeban Deka : Kôdo nêmu = Asamiya Saki ), the latest in the Sukeban Deka series of movies. Now, if you’re not familiar with Sukeban Deka, you [...]
Space Battleship Yamato — Naked Weapon — The Holy Mountain — movie reviews
So this weekend is going to be a bit overly busy, so a full length film review is pretty much out of the question. In exchange, I offer these horse-capsule reviews. Note, for those of you repeatedly searching for Linda, Linda, Linda, I’ll have you covered in a week or so.
Space Battleship Yamato [...]
Paprika (aka: Papurika) — he said, she said — movie review — screener!
Paprika
Note: If you’re already a fan of anime and familiar with Satoshi Kon, skip to the third paragraph.
HE SAID
Truth be told, anime is no different than any other storytelling medium. The rabid otaku would like you to believe otherwise, but really, it’s just like everything else. There’s a vast wasteland of uninspired, tedious dreck, [...]
D’oh! Missed Hostel 2, but free screenings of Go-Bots and Starblazers!
So we had planned on attending the Hostel 2 advanced screening in the city, with Eli Roth in attendance, but as luck would have it I had my dates mixed up. In fact, the screening actually started about an hour ago. Oh well. We’ll try to get a review up sometime around it’s release in a week or so.
Some other cool items though. If you haven’t already checked out SFIndie’s Another Hole in the Head lineup, you really should. The festival starts Friday, and there are a lot of great films playing this year. Check out the schedule here, as well as our reviews of Murder Party, [...]
Afro Samurai Director’s Cut 2-Disc Edition — anime — dvd review — early!
Being that I’ve already written a number of articles on Afro Samurai, including my first impressions of the series, and a full review of the Director’s Cut of the series, I think I’ve completely exhausted all I can say about the Afro Samurai story. For the sake of a cohesive DVD review, I’m reprinting the [...]
BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo vol. 2: Scream for Ice Cream — anime review
It takes a special kind of weird to make me crack up. It’s the type of comedy that is so out of left field, so unpredictably off the wall it challenges viewers to even describe its humor. Shows like Aqua Teen and early South Park pull this off wonderfully. You either get these shows, or [...]
Death Note (aka: Desu Noto) — movie review
In Japan, there is a deliciously rabid exploration of the occult which Hollywood frequently shuns. For example, remakes of Japanese Horror moneymakers The Ring/Ringu and Dark Water were vilely diluted. So when Japanese filmmakers set out to bring the beloved manga Death Note to the live action platform, you know it’s going to [...]
ANIME REVIEW . Afro Samurai Director’s Cut
The other day Funimation dropped us a preview copy of their upcoming Director’s Cut of Afro Samurai. Now, being a preview disc, the copy I viewed was pretty rough around the edges — by no means a production grade — but it did give me a nice idea as to the special features that will [...]
Illumitoon Trade In Program, “Dubtitles” for Subtitles!
Here’s something pretty cool. IllumiToon entertainment is offering a trade-in program for people who bought early copies of their DVDs but were disappointed about the lack of a pure, literal Japanese language translation subtitle track. I actually noted a bit of the strangeness in the “dubtitles” when I reviewed Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. I’m actually pretty eager [...]
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, March 17th at the Castro (SFIAFF)
Mamoru Hosada’s The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (aka: Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo) will be screening this Saturday, March 17th at 1:00pm at the Castro Theater. The film concerns a 17 year old girl who discovers that she can jump backwards in time. It’s based on a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui and features character models [...]
Disgaea Vol. 1: The Netherworld Prince DVD — anime review
Anime adaptations of video games are not unlike their American film counterparts. There are the occasional ones that provide worthwhile experiences that actually compliment and further the enjoyment of their pixelated progenitors (See: Gungrave, Final Fantasy Legend of the Crystals) but more often than not such adaptations prove half-baked cash-ins on quality [...]
US Paprika Trailer
Oh wow! Looks like Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Satoshi Kon’s latest, Paprika. Also looks like the little bugger has earned itself a phatty-boom-batty R rating. If you don’t know Satoshi Kon, you really don’t know what you’re missing. Check out the trailer here.
Basilisk vol 1: Scrolls of Blood — anime review
Initially I was not aware of the link between Shinobi: Heart Under Blade and Basilisk. I had seen the Basilisk DVDs at the local Fry’s, but nothing about them stood out enough for me to pick them up. However, upon learning that both the film and series were based upon the same source material, The [...]
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade — dvd movie review
Being that I’ve already reviewed Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, and professed my deep love for it in our Best of 2006 list, I’m going to launch straight into the DVD review.
Funimation presents Shinobi: Heart Under Blade in an absolutely pristine 2.35:1 transfer (truly the best I’ve seen) representing its theatrical aspect ratio, with your choice [...]
Spare Time Anime, Round 1: Gungrave, Those Who Hunt Elves, Devil Lady
Things have been insanely busy these days between writing for Dreamlogic, software releases and making the dean’s list, so my downtime is something I treasure. Now, while I do watch a lot of movies in my downtime, I also like to sneak in the occasional anime series.
You see, one of the cool things about Anime [...]
ANIME REVIEW . Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo: Bo-Nafide Protector
Anime loves its afros. Take Afro Samurai and Keroro Gunso, for instance. Or even the stationery character, Afro-ken. All have out-there hair (Keroro often covers his in a helmet) and corresponding out-there fan bases. Maybe it’s because the afro is as fun to draw as it is to admire. Regardless, now you can add [...]
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film for Theaters trailer
The Trailer for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force film is finally online. Aqua Teen’s been getting a bit of attention in the news this week due to a gorilla marketing campaing in Boston which featured magnetic light-brite displays of the mooninites flipping you off, “as hard as they can”. Apparently some Boston dumbasses thought these [...]
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