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 – 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 – 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…
Blu-ray Review – Ascendance of a Bookworm – Sentai Filmworks
Ascendance of a Bookworm is one of the more interesting isekai anime series I’ve seen in recent times. It seems since Overlord (my beginning reference point for the genre). There have been an abundance of isekai springing up, and not a lot of them have much to really offer outside of superficial differences. That is…
Blu-ray Review- Chidori RSC – Sentai Filmworks
Chidori RSC is an adaptation of the manga series “Rifle is Beautiful” by the writer and illustrator Salmiakki. When this found it’s way to my doorstep, the first thing I noticed was the obvious, cute girls with guns. The second thing I noticed was the resemblance of two of the cute girls, to 2 of…
Blu-ray Review – Killing Bites (Sentai Filmworks)
Killing Bites follows the exploits of Yuya and Hitomi. As the series opens Yuya is an accomplice to the Hitomi’s kidnapping and attempted gang-rape (this is hard to watch). He tries to put a stop to it, but as it turns out, Hitomi was straight up able to do that by brutally killing her kidnappers….
Blu-ray Review – Blade of the Immortal (Sentai Filmworks)
I have been a HUGE fan of Takashi Miike since getting my mitts on a DVD of Audition sometime in 2000. Right after that I went through an Asian horror/action blitz that lasted for years and truly never really let up. A few years back Miike released his 100th feature film, and it was an…
Blu-ray Review – Assassin’s Pride – Sentai Filmworks
Assassin’s Pride is sort of interesting. The world it was set in had a vibe I almost immediately liked, and wanted to spend some time in, and getting to know. The story itself wasn’t entirely compelling, it had a spark at the start, and then picked up as it went along. Basically, the premise as…