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Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower Review — Scotland Loves Anime 2023
The final day of 2023’s Scotland Loves Anime film festival at the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh was a day for the retro nerds. Starting with…
Galaxy Express 999: The Movie 4K Remaster Review — Scotland Loves Anime 2023
Galaxy Express 999 would have been 10-year-old me’s absolute favourite movie ever, if I’d had the chance as a kid to see it. As a UK-based…
AniTAY Podcast S8 E18: Horrifying Forced Supernatural Pregnancies
October is always a spooky time of the year, but who knew anime podcasts could be just as spooky?
Komada: A Whisky Family Review — Scotland Loves Anime 2023
Studio P.A. Works have a formula for their “Working Series”, and Komada: A Whisky Family is their fifth installment — albeit in relatively…
Blue Giant Review — Scotland Loves Anime 2023
Let me say this first — I am not a huge jazz fan. It’s not that I dislike it, it’s that I’m mostly ignorant. I don’t listen to jazz music…
The Concierge Review — Scotland Loves Anime 2023
The second movie I watched at this year’s Scotland Loves Anime film festival in Edinburgh is very different to the first. Lonely Castle in…
Lonely Castle in the Mirror Review — Scotland Loves Anime 2023
Keiichi Hara isn’t one of those most widely recognised anime directors, but he reliably produces an excellent movie every few years. Once…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2023 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
Earlier in the week, I covered this heavily-packed anime season’s new shows. Now it’s the turn of the voluminous number of sequels and…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2023 Anime Season: New Shows
It’s that time in the anime season where I take stock, and let you know which new shows I think are worth recommending, and which are…
An Unusually Grimm Radiant Retrospective
Among the many storytellers of fiction, folk tales and other assorted curios, there is no duo more synonymous with fairytales than Jacob…
TYPE-MOON Review: Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel: Extra Chorus
For the final, final, (honest) final time, with Kara no Kyoukai: Future Gospel: Extra Chorus, we come to the end of studio ufotable’s…
AniTAY Podcast S8 E17: Moses with Mystic Eyes of Perception
AniTAY Podcast S8 E17: Moses with Mystic Eyes of Perception
TYPE-MOON Review: Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel: Recalled Out Summer
Although studio ufotable’s Kara no Kyoukai film series (an adaptation of TYPE-MOON co-founder Kinoko Nasu’s trio of late 1990’s novels)…
TYPE-MOON Review: Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners Chapter 8: Epilogue (The Garden of Sinners)
While the seventh and “final” of studio ufotable’s The Garden of Sinners/Kara no Kyoukai anime movies was released in Japanese cinemas in…
TYPE-MOON Review: Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners Chapter 7: …not nothing heart (Murder…
It’s time for the big finale — at 121 minutes, Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners Chapter 7: Murder Speculation Part 2 is the longest…
AniTAY Podcast S8 E16: Ultra Aggressive Disaster Lesbian Masochist Simp the Anime
There’s nothing like a good ultra aggressive disaster lesbian masochist simp to start the new season. You can thank Dockev for this.
TYPE-MOON Review: Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners Chapter 6.5: Redux: Gate of Seventh Heaven
Let’s take a break from our scheduled programming with an odd digression. Studio ufotable’s initial seven-part anime adaptation of…
TYPE-MOON Review: Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners Chapter 6: Fairy Tale (Oblivion Recording)
For this sixth chapter of studio ufotable’s Garden of Sinners/Kara no Kyoukai anime adaptation, apprentice mage and high school student…
The Fall 2023 AniTAY Sequel Guide
Looking for some anime to watch this Fall season? Check out the anime sequels are worth your time in Fall 2023!
TYPE-MOON Review: Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners Chapter 5: Paradox Spiral
It’s taken me a while longer to digest this chapter of ufotable’s Kara no Kyoukai adaptation than I would have liked — partly because I’ve…
A Serenade for Change — The Origins of Radiant’s Hameline
Near the climax of Radiant’s first season, there comes a specific moment where the story completely shifts gears, culminating in a very…
AniTAY Podcast S8 E15: JUDGMENT IS UPON US
We caused enough mischief while discussing the end of the Summer animes that we might provoke Protonstorm to be on the next podcast.
Doctorkev’s Summer 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 2
As the Autumn 2023 anime season started yesterday with a handful of early shows (including the rightly-hyped Frieren — I’m excited about…
The Vulnerable Hero: Goblin Slayer Addresses Uncomfortable Issues
When I heard the title “Goblin Slayer,” I will admit my skepticism landed entirely where popular culture steered it to- I always thought of…
Doctorkev’s Summer 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 1
We come to the end of yet another anime season, and I think I’m not alone in my sentiments that this was probably the weakest overall…
TYPE-MOON Review: Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners Chapter 4: garan-no-dou (The Hollow Shrine)
At only 45 minutes, garan-no-dou is the shortest installment so far of ufotable’s 8-part Kinoko Nasu novel series anime adaptation. Despite…
AniTAY Podcast S8 E14.5: Fall 2023 Anime Preview
AniTAY Podcast S8 E14.5: Fall 2023 Anime Preview
TYPE-MOON Review: Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners Chapter 3: ever cry, never life (Remaining…
Intrepid, I continue my descent into anime studio ufotable’s adaptation of TYPE-MOON founding writer Kinoko Nasu’s late 1990’s novel series…
TYPE-MOON Review: Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners Chapter 2 …and nothing heart (Murder…
Continuing my deep-dive into the earlier and less well-known works of TYPE-MOON’s co-founder and writer of Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night…
TYPE-MOON Review: Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1: Thanatos (Overlooking View)
The availability of TYPE-MOON’s founding writer Kinoko Nasu’s work has long been scattershot and inconsistent in the West. His most…
TYPE-MOON Magic-ology 101: Witch on the Holy Night Review
In December of 2022, something miraculous occurred. For the first time, a TYPE-MOON visual novel received an official English-language…
An Incredible Experience: The First Slam Dunk Anime Movie Review
I went into basketball anime The First Slam Dunk with minimal expectations. I didn’t predict it would be one of the best anime movies…
AniTAY Podcast S8 E14: Kissing Chubby Little Fingers
AniTAY discusses this season by talking about last season’s shows. Hybridmink gets the authentic catholic experience from Blasphemous 2.
The 7 New Anime of Summer 2023 You Should Be Watching
Ready to beat the heat with some anime? Check out our list of the best shows from Summer 2023!
10 Years Later, Radiant Shines Brighter Than Ever
Tony Valente’s Radiant is a shonen tour de force and a beautifully powerful story of survivors, heroism and humanity.
Doctorkev Does Fate/Hollow Ataraxia
When is a sequel not a sequel? When it’s a tonally incongruous and chronologically discordant follow-up like 2005’s Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, a…
AniTAY Podcast S8 E13: This Episosd
Only at the AniTAY Podcast can you get the latest anime deets and the coolest anime peeps! Join us in this episode of the AniTAY podcast…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2023 Anime Season: Sequels/Ongoing Shows
After covering this otherwise fairly light season’s new shows yesterday, today we’re looking at some very big sequels. There’s a few I’ve…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2023 Anime Season: New Shows
That’s us at the halfway point of the Summer anime season, and my overall impression is that it’s been mostly lacklustre, however there are…
How Bungo Stray Dogs Helped Me Keep My Ideals in the Face of Loss
CW: Death, suicide, homicide, child abuse, trauma
Remembrance of Mortality Makes You Appreciate the Life You Have.
During the first episode of Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, a zombie apocalypse strikes Tokyo, and protagonist Akira Tendou’s sudden…
AniTAY Podcast S8 E12: Turn Undead for WHAT?!
Anime produces waifus in all shapes, sizes and states of life. AniTAY channels it’s inner necromancer and discusses the best zombies in…
The Problem w/ Blaming Time Between Seasons for ReZero’s Seasons
Earlier on Sunday, there was an announcement for the teaser image of the upcoming third season for ReZero: Starting Life in Another World…
AniTAY Podcast S8 E11: Evangelion as a Life Debt
Feeling a bit nostalgic about the anime we love to rewatch? Join DocKev, Requiem, Reikaze and UMRGuy while we talk about the shows that…
Doctorkev Does Fate/Stay Night: Part 3: Heaven’s Feel route
Never say I don’t (eventually) keep my promises. Almost three years since I reviewed the first and second routes of Kinoko Nasu’s seminal…
Comfy but Considerate, Why There’s More to Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
When the first season of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear aired, I think that it was a classic example of an anime where everyone established their…
How Type-Moon and Fate/Grand Order Passed Me By
Being a Type-Moon fan, but not a Fate/Grand Order fan, has been an absolutely bizarre experience.
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes — Anime Movie Review
Summer 2023’s looking great for anime movies in the UK. Coming up over the next couple of months are: 1) the highly-anticipated (by me, at…
AniTAY Podcast S8 E10: Cosplaying Lesbian Golf Wives
On today’s unhinged episode, the AniTAY crew finishes off the Spring season while roasting each other about their waifus in golf cosplay.
Radiant’s Answer to Modern Cynicism is…. Mario Kart?
Within the present-day culture of modernization through cultural shifts, reinterpretations and the passage of time, shonen has undergone…