Rocket Punch!

Dai Saito (Matsumoto Hitoshi) may look like your average middle-aged chump, but he’s actually a superhero. When electrocuted, Dai Saito transforms into the gigantic, boxer-wearing Dai Nipponjin, doing battle against unsavory super-sized monsters like Jumpy Baddie, Baby Baddie, and of course Smelly Baddie. Saving Japan over and over again is all well and good, but Dai Saito doesn’t get much in return. Estranged from his ex-wife and daughter, he ekes out a boring life with a stray cat in a [...]

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 [...]

Review by: Mike Corbitt ?Jet Set Radio. A game some still considered to be the late Dreamcast?s best. A game that many people still enjoy playing even in this day of PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube. A game that started the revolution of ?cel-shaded? games which is now the style used by Nintendo in making their latest Legend of Zelda game. Smilebit has once again brought out a wonder of a game that has lived up to everything this reviewer had [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to the new Rocket Punch! website. After who knows how many years, I decided to re-start the website with renewed interest. I switched over to wordpress from php nuke and I’m in the progress of transferring some of the articles over from the old site. Most of the articles are rather old, the most recent was 2004. I lost a lot of the newer articles to content hacks and bad backup habits, but at most the newest articles would [...]

Rock and Roll Zombies!!!! Trash and Chaossss!!!! by Christopher Dutrieux How can I put this movie into words? Simple. I can’t. It is a rare occasion that such a low budget japanese film can actually entertain me for the entire length of the movie. But after I saw an article in Fangoria magazine for this movie and finally getting it in the mail, I was bitch slapped in the face by glorious B-Cinema genius! I was amazed! This film is [...]