Valentine’s Day is almost here and Crunchyroll is ready to celebrate a season of love. There are so many romantic anime out there to tickle your fancy this month and beyond. Love stories are all over the place in the anime landscape. Love is a subplot in shonen battles and in slice of life
TRIGUN STARGAZE gives a bit of nice, green calm before the storm for Vash and his friends in Ep. 4 "From Order to Chaos". All due to them staying in the nice, safe Home with its abundant greenery: the only such place to be found in all of Noman's Land. However, that safety won't last. Not if
Journal with Witch brings up some serious posthumous mother issues for Asa and even Makio in Ep. 5 "Decide". Because as it turns out: being dead doesn't stop Asa's mother from still giving her issues. Of course, Makio's mother (and by extension: Asa's grandmother) is still very much alive, but that
Regulars here might recall that a short while ago, we got the news about what was going to be the opening theme song for the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe anime film. That opening song will be "Snooze" by SZA, as we will see when we finally see this anime film in
Fans of Pokémon would certainly understand the appeal of the Pokémon Room. After all. it's not every day that you can stay in a completely Pokémon-themed hotel room, with emphasis on "completely". Each of these hotel rooms features a total of 100 different Pokémon integrated into them. Some of
Whoever Steals This Book is a very new anime film that you may not have heard of, but it's one that looks like it deserves much attention indeed. It's the anime adaptation of the 2020 novel of the same name by Nowaki Fukamidori, which also later received a manga adaptation in 2021. The entire
TRIGUN STARGAZE has Vash head back Home to a puppet show with Jessica in Ep. 3 "Memento Mori". Alas, this is not the fun kind of puppet show. This is the kind of puppet show that involves quite a bit of gun fu and martial arts, and all on the part of a very unwilling audience to boot. TRIGUN
Fans of the classic romance manga and anime Fruits Basket will readily recall the name Kyoko Honda. As the late mother of series protagonist Tohru Honda, she was a fascinating posthumous character with a most colorful past as an ex-gang member. Alas, we only get to see bits and pieces of that past
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely