Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works covers a different story branch of the original game. For those keeping track at home, production is the same as the series which not consistent in art direction. Just like with the Evangelion series, it seems as if the whole 24 episodes of the series have been melted down into [...]

Naruto The Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel is a pretty decent addition to the Naruto movies. I realize I review them out of order but I gravitate towards films that leave an impression on me firstly. This movie was very reminiscent of the very first ten to fifteen episodes of the Naruto [...]

Similar to what animators did to the Batman franchise last year, Halo gets the anime treatment from a bunch of different artists that is broken up in various stories. The Halo Legends anthology is an anime-style adaptation of the Halo series consisting of seven short films animated by five different Japanese production houses. Brilliant idea [...]

Wings of Honneamise takes on what is usually too much for one movie. Besides the obvious plot about a space program, this movie deals with war, politics, friendship, religion, love, morality, the sanctity of childhood, homelessness, and a man trying to find himself. The film is about a man, living in another world not unlike [...]

Summer Wars is a film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, who you may know for the movie The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, which I listed as one of the top 10 anime films of the decade. Upon hearing this news, I was instantly interested in seeing this film.  Hosoda seems intent on ramping up the [...]

After watching Karas – The Prophecy one time through you will either think it was an awesome production of action and effects or that it is a complete mess. I admit that I enjoyed what I thought was mindless entertainment, but at the same time was left slightly disappointed. The slick CG fight scenes aren’t [...]

The floating city, Laputa, was just a legend, a dream of explorers. But Pazu has a goal to find Laputa like his father did before him. And then one day a girl, fell out of the sky and things went weird. The story is based on the Laputa of Gulliver’s Travels, a flying city of [...]