Hero Mask is the latest Blu-ray release to come from Sentai Filmworks that was a “Netflix Original” anime. I hate to say these have been more miss than hit, but for the most part I feel that way. This one is a Sci-Fi Actioner, with a crime plot running through it, and well it has…
Blu-ray Review – Karakuri Circus – Sentai Filmworks
Karakuri Circus is a 36 episode shonen anime that is conceptually interesting. It is based on a manga that ran for 43 volumes starting in the late 90’s, and ending in 2006. Needless to say that leaves a lot to be left on the proverbial cutting room floor even when the series runs for a…
Blu-ray Review – Kaiji The Complete Series – Sentai Filmworks
I saw a few episodes of Kaiji a long while back, and while it intrigued me at the time it didn’t hook me and then it faded into the recesses of my mind until the Blu-ray of the complete series ended up on my doorstep the other week. I ended up popping it on, and…
Blu-ray Review – Elfen Lied – Sentai Filmworks
I first saw Elfen Lied through the ADV DVD box set sometime in the mid 2000’s. A friend from the bookstore I worked at recommended I check it out knowing my penchant for both horror and sleazier things. He was right, I was HOOKED. The thing about Elfen Lied though is while though things might…
Blu-ray Review – Megazone 23 – Animeigo
Animeigo is really delivering the goods with their recent slate of Kickstarted classic Anime restorations starting with their GLORIOUS Bubblegum Crisis set (if you don’t have that, you need it, they also have a Kickstarter for Metal Skin Panic – Madox-01 coming up this week, you should contribute if you’re reading this). Their most recent…
Blu-ray Review – Food Wars – Fourth Plate
Being on a diet and watching the “Fourth Plate” (Fourth Season) of Food Wars is not the ideal situation. I’ve had food in anime (see the films of Hayao Miyazaki as an example) where the food looks good enough to eat, but Food Wars takes that to the extreme so much so, that over the…
Blu-ray Review – Venus Wars – Sentai Filmworks
So when I was getting beyond the Robotech/Dragon Warrior phase of my anime fandom, Cartoon Network and the Sci-Fi channel were there to rescue me with some random blocks of anime. Obviously, CN had Adult Swim, but Sci-Fi had some cool stuff too, and they pretty frequently would show the classic Yoshikazu Yasuhiko anime film…
Blu-ray Review – Motto : To Love Ru – Sentai Filmworks
OK, so a few years back on the older web 1.0’ish version of EuroCultAV we reviewed To Love Ru- The Complete Collection. Our assessment of the time was that the first 2 seasons of To Love Ru (this Blu-ray set is the 2nd season) were a bit too on the campy and episodic , and…
Blu-ray Review – Kandagawa Jet Girls – Sentai Filmworks
Kandagawa Jet Girls is a multimedia project that ties together this 12 episode anime series with an OVA and PS4 racing game. The series premise is quite simple Rin has long wanted to follow in her late Mother’s footsteps. Those footsteps, however, would lead her to be a racer in the sport of Kandagawa Jet…
Blu-ray Review – Pet – Sentai Filmworks
Let me just start by saying that Pet is a show you need to watch front to back. In fact I’m sure this is a show that will reward multiple viewings, and I certainly hope picks up viewers as time goes by. The show is a deeply psychological affair that follows a group of people…