Adziu's small corner

I haven’t the faintest idea how to play Mahjong. You sit around a table, taking it in turns to draw tiles and trying to make hands tha...

Gonzo don’t make many feature films. Indeed, despite once being known for their wildness and experimentation, these days it’s quite hard ...

It’s been a long while now since I stared Basilisk , which was back when it started. I watched three new anime that day, and of them,...

Well then – Rosario+Vampire , by all accounts a throwaway piece of moé frivolity, managed to be a it of a smash hit and justify a s...

With the current anime du jour being the extremely fun Sword Art Online , with a few vocal detractors whinnying about its similarities t...

I finished watching FMP!  some months ago, but for some reason never stopped to write down my thoughts as I always do. I just assumed I ...

Like Claymore and Tegami Bachi , Rosario + Vampire was one of the series that crossed over when Monthly Shonen Jump ceased publication and ...

This anime, a tie-in adaptation of the popular MMORPG, was perhaps my first introduction to typical by-the-numbers formulaic anime, back in ...

Black Cat had a lot going for it: the manga was something of a success in Shounen Jump, by far the best place any shounen mangaka can get p...

Despite both these series being animated by Gonzo, one of the most consistently excellent animation studios in Japan, I had the impression t...

Gankutsuou truly is something quite different, standing head and shoulders above the vast majority of the trite anime releases of its season...

One of Gonzo’s biggest hits, especially on Western shores, has been Saikano , an anime with the kind of premise that unfortunately contribut...

PMK was one of the anime broadcast in that era, around 2003-2004, when just about everything I watched was great. And while it isn’t the an...

It pains me to call this ‘Anime Impressions’, rather than labelling the show ‘Western Animation’, because this production, catering for West...

I was hugely impressed by Last Exile. What a shame I dismissed it after only two episodes originally. It was an excellent piece of writing, ...

Sometimes, when it’s feeling like all anime is written to a formula, something very different and quirky comes along and reminds you how nic...

It may not be the most well-known anime, but Brave Story has made ripples: a decent-sized Western DVD release, video games based on the same...

I thought I’d read the original manga before progressing past the first three or four episodes of this anime, after hearing the director di...

When Fullmetal Alchemist became one of the most successful anime of all time, I predicted that in its wake would be a great influx of copyca...