NewsAnime/manga
Cowboy Bebop, the live action Netflix show: did it do the anime honour? (video)
The Critical Drinker finally settles down in front of the live action version of anime Cowboy Bebop on Netflix, a wee dram in…
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Anime/manga
Anime, manga and Japanese culture.
December 2021
ReviewAnime/manga
Neon Genesis Evangelion (anime review).
In 1991, Gainax, the anime studio that would later go on to create ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ (1995), made an OVA entitled ‘Otaku No…
November 2021
NewsAnime/manga
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: there is no better anime (documentary).
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is one of the best manga series, like, ever. It was also Miyazaki’s magnum opus. Let’s…
October 2021
NewsAnime/manga
Appleseed: Masamune Shirow’s true classic – let’s burn Ghost in the Shell (video).
Ed and Jim examine Masamune Shirow’s true classic. No, you muppet, not that silly old crap Ghost in the Shell, but Appleseed –…
September 2021
TrailerAnime/manga
Super Crooks (Netflix superhero anime series: 1st trailer).
Here’s the first trailer for the superhero cartoon series, Super Crooks, produced in anime style and written – rather unusually – for Netflix…
NewsScifi
Cowboy Bebop (Netflix anime live action scifi adapation: opening sequence teaser).
Cowboy Bebop is a new live-action scifi anime adapation from Netflix – concerning three futuristic bounty hunters, known as “cowboys,” who are attempting…
NewsAnime/manga
Star Wars Visions (the Disney Plus Star Wars anime TV series: reviewed).
The Dark Lord is back with us to tell us what he thought of Star Wars Visions, the Japanese-American anime anthology series on…
August 2021
TrailerAnime/manga
Star Wars Visions: the official Star Wars anime series (trailer).
Here’s a trailer for the new Star Wars TV series, Star Wars Visions, which is an anime version/take of the SW Universe, created…
June 2021
NewsAnime/manga
Inside the Tokyo Akihabara’s anime stores (video).
Let’s take a visit through the anime stores of that most geekiest of areas, Tokyo’s Akihabara district. Hey, it’s like we’re really there!
NewsAnime/manga
What’s it like to work as an anime and manga figure sculptor? (video)
There’s a whole universe of manga/anime figures available on the shelves of model and toy stores in Japan. And you know what, some…
TrailerAnime/manga
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 (aka new Starblazers) is on the way! Trailer.
For fans of the classic anime TV series and various movies based around Space Battleship Yamato (or Starblazers if you were in the…
May 2021
ReviewAnime/manga
Castle In The Sky: when Studio Ghibli did steampunk anime (review).
The Critical Thinker is back for a little classic retrospective work, in this case a very fine review, of one of the greatest…