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FRIEREN: BEYOND JOURNEY’S END SEASON 2 REVIEW Jonathan Larson once pondered how one would measure a year. Cups of coffee, sunsets, laughter, strife? Regardless, a year is five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. Frieren, and elf, by this measure is approximately five hundred twenty five million six hundred thousand minutes. Give or take […]

COSMIC PRINCESS KAGUYA! MOVIE REVIEW Teenagers these days have all sorts of wild ambitions that blur the lines of dreaming big and living in a fantasy world. They want to get rich as young as possible and retire in your early 20’s. Fear not young listeners, such ambitions can be achieved! You could become a […]

100 METERS MOVIE REVIEW Good cardio may make the difference between life and death in an apocalypse but in this animated feature, it’s the difference between life and a shuffling zombie existence in a 9 to 5 desk job pushing pencils and remembering days long past when the act of running was an expression of […]

ALL YOU NEED IS KILL MOVIE REVIEW In the year 20XX, a massive and mysterious flower known as Darol suddenly appears in Japan. Volunteers are sent in to help with cleanup and rebuilding, including Rita, a resourceful but isolated young woman who has never quite fit in. When Darol emits a deafening signal, its fruit […]

CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC Tatsuki Fujimoto’s most hellish manga creation has rev’ed up from the the page, onto the tv screens, and moving onto the biggest screens of silver and into our hearts. We are talking about Chainsaw Man The Movie- Reze Arc directed by anime key artist and showrunning legend Tatsuya […]

DEMON SLAYER INFINITY CASTLE MOVIE REVIEW Over 220 million copies sold world wide across its 23 volumes. Adapted into an anime of 4 seasons and 63 episodes all translated into several languages propelling it into a world wide phenomenon. An empire of merchandising that rivals that of Star wars and The Simpsons. Writer/artist Koyoharu Gotouge’s […]

LAZARUS SERIES REVIEW Sometimes when the world has got you down you just wanna take the edge off. Doctor Skinner has created a drug called Hapna which has all the benefits of a pain killer without any of the detrimental benefits. Physical or mental pain? Hapna can take it all away, and it’s over the […]

CHAO MOVIE REVIEW Maciej Kur is back and he is once again covering the Annecy Animation Festival in France! Spidermike joins him to take a look at some of the wild new animated films from around the world coming out soon. From the innocent and unsuspecting country of Japan comes Yasuhiro AOKI’s first full-length feature […]

DEVIL MAY CRY SERIES REVIEW From arcade cabinets to your prefered console system in the living room, Capcom has brought hundreds upon thousands of hours of entertainment with video game classics like Mega Man, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter and the 2000s combo-juggling, demon-themed, first-person, sword-swinging, pistol-pulling, action-adventure, Devil May Cry. 25 years later Netflix is […]

DANDADAN SERIES REVIEW Ken ‘Okarun’ Takakura (Natsuki Hanae) is a socially awkward misfit with an Agent Mulder brain. If the truth is out there, he wants to find and befriend a couple of aliens while learning and adapting their ways. Momo Ayase (Shion Wakayama) is the granddaughter of a powerful medium with passed down psychic […]

GHOST CAT ANZU MOVIE REVIEW Four adolescents are on a quest to see a dead body gathered around a campfire for the night to discuss one of life’s great mysteries: Mickey is a mouse, Donald is a duck, Pluto is a dog, so what’s Goofy? The world may never know, but dear reader/listener, if you […]

With all the spectacle and extravagance of a Sunday Superbowl showdown, Boss Monsters from beyond the stars have attacked the earth. Thanks to a team of heros called The Dragon Keepers, the evil beings from beyond...

PARASYTE: THE GREY SERIES REVIEW My skin is not my own! You know the quote, but how do you know it? It’s like the word Ewok; sometimes we just know stuff. Or perhaps the alien inside you shared the knowledge with you in a dream. Parasyte The Grey is a live-action Netflix miniseries adapted from […]

ATTACK ON TITAN: THE FINAL SEASON PART 4 Adapted from the popular manga written by Hajime Isayama, on April 7, 2013 the first episode of Attack on Titan premiered. After a decade of awesome horror violence, intriguing cat and mouse mystery, and dozens of memes, the stage has been set for this grand saga’s final […]

ONE PIECE SERIES REVIEW King of the pirates Gold Roger (Michael Dorman) had fame and fortune beyond imagination. Before his execution he declared to all dreamers that his fortune was all there for the taking. You just have to find it first. A golden age of pirates has begun and sailors of all walks of […]

LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR MOVIE REVIEW There have been many castles throughout the centuries at the heart of our timeless stories. Some castles are tucked away in the spooky forest. Some are a beacon of light upon the highest hill. Some contain the promise of a fair maiden but it turns out your princess […]

SUZUME MOVIE REVIEW Following up the international success of his 2019 films Weathering with You and the 2018 anime classic Your Name, writer/director Makoto Shinkai is bringing back the magic and beauty of Japan’s ancient culture with Suzume. The title is the name of an adventurous teenage girl brought up by her reserved and cautious […]

ATTACK ON TITAN – THE FINAL SEASON – PT.3 What’s up with all the shaking cups of water and that ominous thundering sound? It’s not T-Rex on a stroll this time. It’s the long awaited highly anticipated Rumbling in Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 2 special Episode 1 penultimate special! Protagonist turned antagonist […]

CHAINSAW MAN SERIES REVIEW From the internationally acclaimed haunted and depraved mind of Manga writer/artist Tatsuki Fujimoto comes Chainsaw Man.  Yes, he’s pretty much what he sounds like: a man made of chainsaws revving up from hell to chop of demons and cop some feels. Denji, a lonely orphan adolescent with despair for a pillow […]

CYBERPUNK EDGERUNNERS SERIES REVIEW What’s up you f**king Chooms!? You’re here with Chad, Tessa, and Marcos and we’re dripping with 80’s/future aesthetic today with Cyberpunk Edgerunners, a new anime series streaming on Netflix. The show is based on the video game Cyberpunk which comes with a lot of baggage, depending on if you played the […]

DRIFTING HOME MOVIE REVIEW Acclaimed writer/director of animation Hiroyasu Ishida (Penguin Highway) presents the newest anime film from Netflix, Drifting Home.  Little kid friends Kosuke and Natsumi’s have been drifting apart.  In Junior High they have their own cliques but back in the day the two were inseparable.  When they get the news that the […]

GOODBYE DON GLEES MOVIE REVIEW Teen misfits Roma, Toto, and Drop call themselves the “Don Glees,” basically a term used for their adventures outside of the real world. They’re not popular, and are constantly bullied. Every year, there’s a fireworks display that they don’t get invited to, so they set off their own. This year, […]

INU-OH MOVIE REVIEW The anime Inu-Oh directed by Masaaki Yuasa (Japan Sinks: 2020, Devilman Crybaby, Ride your Wave) is back to up the razzle and double the dazzle with a through the centuries rock opera about government controlled narratives being thwarted by the power of music. Hey Jude! You hear about the new biwa rock […]

THE DEER KING MOVIE REVIEW In the years following a vicious war in a far off land, wild dogs that once carried the deadly Black Wolf Fever continue to roam free, threatening to unleash a pandemic on the people of this fantasy world. While one half of the kingdom wears masks to protect themselves from […]

POMPO THE CINEPHILE MOVIE REVIEW Today we find ourselves in the land of movie magic, yes, of course I’m talking about Nyallywood. One of the top producers, Joelle Davidovich Pomponette (Pompo-san), has just tasked her assistant, Gene, to direct her new film. Gene is green to running the whole show. He has to work with […]