“Anime” Archives

Kiki’s Delivery Service never devolves to a childish, juvenile comedy, nor does it become overly melodramatic and pretentious.

Blood: The Last Vampire is a visually stunning, haunting animation whose only real weakness is that, well, it doesn’t really have much of plot.

I’ve heard many people describe this as a serious, “adult” anime, but I don’t buy it.

Compared to much of the anime coming out today, it seems pallid and stale.

It successfully combines high-tech action sequences with some interesting, if not moving human interest stories.

I find it very easy to get caught up in Miyazaki’s films, mainly because his films often resemble how I remember seeing the world as a child.

If you’ve got a few spare bucks and two hours to kill, Macross II might be worth a rental.

Overall, it’s not a terrible anime; it just feels really rushed.

If Trust was more action-oriented, then Betrayal delves more into the psychology of the characters

This is a very, very serious film; there are no light moments or humorous incidents.

Though released 1988, Akira stills stands unrivaled as one of the landmarks of animation.

More than once, I was left scratching my head and wondering what was going on, with no help from the dialog.

If I must say one good thing about X, it sure aims high. But that just makes it all the more disappointing.