In early April of ’96, TV Tokyo aired a series now so popular, so well known that it was compared with the legendary Shin Sekai Evangelion; this series was Tenkuu no Esukafuroune, The Vision of Escaflowne. Review by Shiki. The Vision of Escaflowne combined fantasy with mecha and was an instant hit; it was later released in the United States by Bandai’s Anime Village, and had a short run on the FOX television network . In June of 2000, Sunrise [...]
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Review by Jedediah Walls “The terror of the night is inescapable.” Don’t let me tell you what this is about, instead, I will tell you what it will do to you. Brutally, the Rurouni Kenshin OAV series shrouds you mystery, immediately touches you, and makes you fall in love with it. It makes you question mankind?s sense of right and wrong and then it leaves you, cursing love and the things that get between it. Not a bad way to [...]
By Kouta Hirano and Yasunori Urata This lackluster horror begins in the depths of Cheddars, England, a town overran by a sick preacher-turned vampire bent on creating an entire army of ghouls! When the crack squad D-11 fails to take out the monster, England calls upon its secret vampire hunting team ? the Hellsing Agency! Armed with his hole-punching Cassull .454, the bad*** vampire Alucard takes on the ghoul army and the creature that spawned them. We meet Integra Hellsing, [...]
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uri Kuri Brought to us by Gainax and I.G. Production This show is *BENT*. Imagine, if you will, David Lynch in his weirder days, make him Japanese and inject him with catastrophic amounts of hallucinogenic drugs. Then you might approach the mind set of the creators of this show. Whether for better or worse, this construct of ink, paint, and voice can only give us a representation of the twisted thought that went into creating it. Representation though it may [...]
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A Review by Jedediah Walls Queen Elizabeth’s cooler than we thought. In modern day England, a secret government task force called the Hellsing Agency leads a crack team of specialists to destroy the Vampire menace that threatens the country. Mixing religion and government in a manner that could only come out of Friday night shounen, this Vampire story comes at you with the force of a 13mm bullet. Filled with flashy scenes, azure characters, and BIG GIANT GUNS, this show [...]
Gundam Mobile Suit: The Novels Ballantine/Del Rey, 1990 Reviewed by Kevin Pezzano Revolution Rating: 9/10 RevolutionSf.com review. Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for 1990! Okay, 1990 is not really all that “way back”, but for American anime fans, it might as well have been the Dark Ages. Back then, anime in the US was brutally limited; fans had to manage with bootlegged “fansubs”, hacked-to-pieces and kiddified shows on TV, original-language imports direct from Japan, and a few badly dubbed (and [...]
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