Adziu's small corner

I recently wrote in my Aggressive Retsuko review about how since coming to Japan I’ve learned a lot more about Sanrio and their cutesy ...

I ended my review of the first season of Korra on a disappointed but optimistic note. I wasn’t very impressed by the new setting or char...

Well, this is slightly awkward. When I wrote my impressions of Bleach up to its small-scale and, let’s be frank, completely unnecessary...

During the climactic action scene that dominates the third act of this, the eighth film in the  Naruto franchise, the cavalry arrives to ...

Oh my, I’ve neglected this blog recently. Apologies for that! On the plus side, a few days ago I passed 100,000 views, which is always n...

First Impressions So, episode 1 of Rock Lee’s Springtime of Youth aired in the now-vacated  Bleach timeslot. So Studio Pierrot are n...

Not too long ago, it was announced that the Bleach anime is imminently coming to its close, at an awkward point not long after its timeskip....

This, the third Bleach movie, satisfied me in a typical Jump movie sort of way, though not nearly as much as its sequel Hell Verse did. Aft...

English title: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom Much like the previous two films in the Naruto series, this one sets up a promising...

Tegami Bachi REVERSE picked up right where the first series left off – adorable little ‘Letter Bee’ Lag Seeing finally found Gauche, the m...

I’ve done it for the other two Shounen Jump ‘Big Three’ titles, so now that the anime has come out of its latest extended filler arc and sk...

I was still fairly new to weekly anime and the fansubbing scene when I watched Midori no Hibi , back in 2004. Fresh from Azumanga Daioh an...

I find it more or less impossible to answer when someone asks me my favourite anime. There is too much diversity, I think. Too many great se...

This, really, is how one of the tie-in movies for the big Shounen Jump series should be. After a slew of disappointing efforts, I was plea...

Here is a series with a very interesting production story: what I watched was the Canadian dub, commissioned by British and American compani...

After the disappointing Bonds and the downright terrible Inheritors of the Will of Fire , I was uncertain that it was ever again going to be...

Tegami Bachi , originally a manga from Jump Square (which replaced Monthly Shounen Jump ), is an unlikely hit, revolving as it does around...

...dattebayo. Or to give it the official English title, Legend of the Stone of Gelel . It must be said that with the regular series rapidly...