Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Swordsmith Village Arc Ep. 2 "Yoriichi Type Zero" seems like it has one of the strangest titles of all the episodes of the anime. It sounds more like a title of an episode from a sci-fi anime. There's a good reason for that. Especially what with the highly
The Ancient Magus' Bride season 2 Ep. 2 "Birds of a feather flock together. I" gives us Chise's first school day at the College. Admittedly, it's not her first school day period, but it goes much better than her mundane school days. Chise even meets an old friend during class and seems to be making
Finally, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba fans: we have our first episode of the long-awaited third season! In fact, in Ep. 1 "Someone's Dream", we even get to see Tanjiro and Nezuko have their own adventure together at long last. After all, what better way for them to have a brother and sister
Lost in the Reel's video review for Suzume My love for writer/director Makoto Shinkai runs deep. The incredible filmmaker has, time and again, crafted some of Japan's most dazzling and awe-inspiring anime features. When I was in high school, I was beginning to expand on my adoration for
The Ancient Magus' Bride season 1 ended its run on March 24, 2018. Since then, the only anime adaptation we've had of Kore Yamazaki's dark fantasy manga masterpiece is a 3-episode OVA in the form of The Boy From the West and the Knight of the Mountain Haze. With no sign of a second season in sight,
It seems that studio Orange has decided to make Trigun Stampede Ep. 12 "High Noon at July" end the season with a bang. It's a pretty spectacular bang to boot, and it even makes up for all the negatives the anime had in its early episodes. I daresay that with this finale, this reboot anime is as
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is a franchise revival that feels like it understands what made the original games so much fun. The gameplay is fast, frantic, and often delightfully violent, while the game throws a surprisingly large number of systems and mechanics at you. Thankfully, most of them feel
Who could've guessed that a film about a stinky fisherwoman and a wicker husband would end up being one of the most romantic movies of the year? For all its vulgarity and absurdity, Wicker weaves a surprisingly sincere, shockingly sweet fable of against-all-odds love and a dismantling critique of
Few studios have set such a precedent within their own genre quite like Laika Studios. With each painstakingly crafted story, they consistently find new ways to level up stop motion animation and push the limits of what can be accomplished. Stop motion is already a marvelous feat of patience and
