Sacred Seven's Yoshimitsu Ohashi directs Code Geass: Z of the Recapture anime― The live-streamed unveiling event for new Code Geass projects announced a new anime series and a new smartphone game on Saturday (December 5 or Lelouch's birthday). Yoshimitsu Ohashi (Amnesia, Galaxy Angel, Sacred Seven) is directing the new Gode Geass: Z of the Recapture (Dakkan no Zetto) anime series, and Noboru Kimura ...
While it has the typical trappings of a game in the Science Adventure vein, it's also bolstered by fleshed-out characters, a sense of a stable grounding in reality, and a unique narrative. However, its drawbacks are not insignificant.― The Robotics;Notes double pack is the third in a series of visual novels I've been reviewing in recent days. And while I hold no love for the visual novel genre, I mu...
Whether or not the idea of a nearly forty-year-old dating a teenager makes you squirm is still likely to be a deciding factor as to whether you want to pick up this book, however.― With a title that rivals those of many light novels in length and a reincarnation plotline, it would be very easy to make assumptions about Hato Hachiya's We Swore to Meet in the Next Life and that's When Things Got Weird...
In Akudama Drive, the background art is as much of a character as the colorful cast. Yoshio Tanioka explains how he infused futuristic ideas and Showa-era Japan in one world.― Akudama Drive depicts a unique cyberpunk world, set in a Japan reminiscent of the 1950s and 1960s. Anime News Network spoke to art director Yoshio Tanioka about his role in crafting the anime's background art and aesthetic. Ho...
Inside Mari begins by locking the reader inside the psyche of Isao as he recounts his depressive descent from bright-eyed college student to disheveled shut-in, and in a deeply unsettling sequence, shows us the twisted knot of emotional projection that leads to him stalking his “angel” as a nightly ritual.― Shuzo Oshimi is a name synonymous with taboo. His most well-known work, The Flowers of Evil, ...
In August, the This Week in Anime team was enthralled by Wit Studio's heist-comedy series The Great Pretender. Now the series is back with its finale arc, but does it continue its swindler shenanigans or fall flat?― In August, the This Week in Anime team was enthralled by Wit Studio's heist-comedy series The Great Pretender. The original series stars Makoto "Edamame" Edamura, a small-time crook tha...
The final season of the explosive action series is upon us. Here's everything you need to know about Eren's journey before the premiere on December 7!― The highly anticipated final season of Attack on Titan is set to return, even if its not this fall like originally planned. The trailer left fans excited and curious about new characters joining this amazing story. One face (and body) that had every...
Heidi weighs in on the mine-riddled ethical conundrum of SNK's latest shareholder, the latest updates to King of Fighters, and the SaGa Frontier remaster!― Hello again! How was your holiday weekend? Good, I hope! We've got some news to dissect this week, and there's some very serious stuff we need to talk about. But before that... HEY!! YOU!! Yeah, YOU!!! Are you a SEGA NERD??? Because you'll have t...
Overall, the main problem with Val x Love is that it lets Takuma wallow in his pathetic state for much too long and allows him little room for incremental improvement.― NOTE: The spelling “Einheijer” used in this review for Einherjar was chosen to be consistent with Sentai's subtitles. This Fall 2019 manga adaptation is what I call a “forced harem” series, as it forces the harem situation through ob...
The team behind the intriguing Tokyo Chronos VR visual novel game is back with Altdeus: Beyond Chronos, a sci-fi VN set in future Shibuya.― Last year, MyDearest released the intriguing Tokyo Chronos VR visual novel game, which implemented traditional visual novel gameplay mechanics in a VR setting. The game was a success in Japan, but the team at MyDearest is interested in reaching an even wider aud...
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