Blue Box Ep. 20 "As One of Her Closest Friends" has a bit of a emergency happen with the local school's Snow White play. Mostly due to the prince being a no-show. Fortunately, Taiki is there to save the day as a substitute prince! With some interesting complications for his love life considering
Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 "The 10th S-Rank Hunter" gives Jin-woo three things in his life. The first is fame for his actions. The second is fortune from the random stuff he collected in his rise to power. The third is a boat-load of fear. Both from his enemies, and from
The entirety of Zenshu Ep. 7 "FIRST LOVE" is essentially a detailed look into Natsuko's life story. A story that leads up to her present day and pre-isekai problem of trying to depict a first love story. Needless to say, it can be a bit difficult to draw out a first love if your first love was and
Blue Box Ep. 19 "I've Got Plans" is the day of a cultural festival: a kind of open campus festival typical for Japanese schools, and is thus typical of school-focused slice of life anime in general. As it turns out, this anime is no different from them. However, it does have the advantage of that
We are now in the third season of Reacher on Amazon Prime, and I will just put this out there right now: This is the best season so far! Season One was good, season two was OK, but season three really up the game. Starring Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Anthony Michael Hall, Johnny Berchtold, Olivier
Blue Box Ep. 18 "I Know" has Taiki engage in a badminton battle of the century against Shūji Yusa. All in spite of the fact that it's a practice match and theoretically not as important as an actual match. Theoretically, that is. If you think about it though, it's great prep for those real matches
Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 18 "Don’t Look Down on My Guys" marks a return to the classic story formula for the anime. It's a return so classic that it's a bit of a downgrade from the previous episode. Here, the band of potentially interesting side characters is now reduced
The Gorge looks to blend together romance, action, and horror, and while it wavers a bit at that, the two leads have electric chemistry and the monsters are absolutely terrifying enough to satisfy audiences.
Though marital arts action cinema is vast and varied, it is rare for one to elevate the genre and push it forward. There have been few recently - The Raid comes to mind, and while not technically "martial arts" I'd argue John Wick counts - that feel as if something new and special is happening.
We've had haunted house movies. Sure, but have we had a haunted van movie? That's what Passenger amounts to at its most distilled form. This is a horror movie about a demonic force (the opposite of Saint Christopher) that has been chasing and killing travelers for hundreds of years. Basically, the
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia finally involves Sitara in the beginnings of some courtly intrigue in Ep. 4 "Otchigin". It's quite reminiscent of The Apothecary Diaries, which has a similar premise. This anime too now promises some deadly political thriller similar to Maomao's adventures in the rear