At the beginning of 2015, I announced that my four-year-old JRPG column, Random Encounters, was coming to an end.…

There have been more than a few great anime this past winter, spring, summer, and fall. But now, as the year comes…

On a small island, a brilliant computer programmer has spent the last 15 years of her life confined to her small…

Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist shows us a world where censorship goes too…

On its surface, being un-killable seems like something wonderful. But in the world of the new anime film Ajin: Shodo,…

Five boys enroll in a former all-girls school only to be incarcerated in the school’s prison? Just go with it.

Ever wonder what the world would be like if the British Empire had been built upon a working class of reanimated…

The leaves are turning red and you know what that means? New anime—54 of them to be exact. So let’s take a look at…

Last month, the newest in a series of midquels to critically acclaimed 2006 anime Code Geass, called Code Geass:…

The first (excellent) season of My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU was two parts cynical comedy, one part drama. Season…

I’m getting flashbacks to my time in high school orchestra...

Yurikuma Arashi does something I would have thought impossible: It uses an outlandish premise to explore the…