Out of all the big name anime shows that are currently making waves right now (Attack on Titan, Black Clover, etc) I am possibly enjoying My Hero Academia the most. Aside from the fact that after Dragon Ball Super concluded this is the one show my son and I seem to watch together on a…
Blu-ray Review – Rising of Shield Hero (S1 Parts 1 and 2, Funimation)
Rising of the Shield Hero is a 2019 anime series by Studio Kinema, who made one of my recent favorite anime series, Made in Abyss. Knowing this going in I was already excited. I know there are plenty of anime series that involve normal people entering fantasy universes so that tempered my expectations slightly, but…
Akira (25th Anniversary Edition) (Funimation) Blu-ray Review
Akira was certainly not the first Japanese anime to become popular on the world stage. From episodic cartoons in the 60’s and 70’s like Astro Boy, Speed Racer, and Gatchaman (aka Battle of the Planets) to the 80’s Robotech, Japanese animation had begun to make it’s way slowly into the international consciousness. However, it should…
Shin Godzilla (Funimation) Blu-ray Review
Suddenly one day, The Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line floods over and starts spreading to the nearby cities. Fearing disaster, The Japanese government comes together to figure out what’s going on. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yaguchi (Hiroki Hasegawa) suspects that the flood was started by a mysterious giant creature. He is soon proven right when a giant sea…