Adziu's small corner

For a long while now, I’ve been meaning to rewatch Ghost in the Shell and review it. And by a long while, I mean several years – since...

Well, they can say what they like about being (not) able to redo, with this the third of the four Rebuild films, a whole lot has been...

I'm not sure what it is about  Superjail! that keeps me coming back, but there is something. Season 2, despite a change of animat...

I don’t often watch The Nostalgia Critic , but I happened upon a link to his thoughts on Orin and it brought back a heavy rush of nostal...

There will always be room in American animation for shows like Superjail . Crude, ultraviolent, ugly and careful to present any cleverer ...

I got The Animatrix shortly after its release, back in 2003 – nine pieces of varying length that acknowledged what the Wachowski brothers ...

Stray! Stray!! It’s quite easy to forget, eight years on, how frustrating it was to watch Wolf’s Rain when it was airing. Not only did the ...

I think few people knew what they were in for when they started Fire Candy , the mangaka included – something that’s more or less admitted i...

Deadman Wonderland is one of my favourite manga of the past few years, although admittedly I haven’t picked up all that many lately. There ...

I was a bit cautious about Tiger & Bunny. When everybody tells me this is the next big thing, I tend to get sceptical, especially as the...

Chances are that if you were born in the 90s, you know the Transformers well and have probably even seen the 80s animated movie . But you ...

Four noteworthy things ran through my head in the first minutes of Eden of the East . The first was, ‘Wow, this has to have the same charac...

Fantastic Children is something a bit different. Ignore the bad title, a misleading bit of Engrish – I’m sure it sounds cool to the Japanes...

It was close to a decade between me seeing the first two episodes of Eva , when the were the only episodes released on VHS, dubbed, in the h...

Considering I didn’t like the trailer, finding Wall-E ’s Johnny 5-derived design bland and the premise dull, I was very pleasantly surprised...

So what has made Akira probably the most internationally famous piece of Japanese animation of all time? Well, there’s been a tendency to s...

Transformers , despite how erratically it was broadcast on UK terrestrial TV – all I had – was my favourite programme as a child. The movie,...

I watched director Shinkai Makoto’s famous debut Hoshi no Koe when it was first available, a beautiful short film all the more astonishing...

I watched Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children almost the moment it was leaked. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I devoted a monstrous ...

I was expecting all the wrong things from Alien Nine . A lot of the anime and manga I love subvert expectations. Princess Tutu begins as a ...