![Blue Box Ep. 13 "I Want A Back-And-Forth Rally": Great Sage Karen [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/blue-box-review-660x371.webp "blue box review")
Blue Box Ep. 13 "I Want a Back-and-Forth Rally" starts off the second cours of the anime with some action. Sports action, to be precise. All starring neither Taiki nor Chinatsu for once, but Haryu instead. And with both Taiki and a certain Great Romantic Sage Karen cheering him on to boot. Blue Box
Zenshu Ep. 2 "DEFEND" dives even deeper into the isekai rabbit hole Natsuko Hirose has found herself in. All as she tries to survive and navigate her way in the world of her favorite anime to boot. Fortunately, there's one thing that won't change, and that's Natsuko geeking out over everything in
![Spy x Family Ch. 106 / Mission 106: Desmond Family Reunion [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/spy-family-660x371.webp "spy family")
Spy x Family Ch. 106 / Mission 106 features a reunion of the entire Desmond family in the manga's history. Alas, regular readers will know that this will not be a happy reunion. In fact, it's such an unhappy reunion that it produces one of the tensest dinner scenes I've ever seen in fiction, and
Zenshu Ep. 1 "FIRST STROKE." is an anime that defies genres and other conventions of anime. It makes you think it's going to be an anime about making anime like Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, but then it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you and turns it into an isekai anime. One featuring a
![Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II Ep. 12 "The Reason To Fight": This War Of Theirs [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/4450e106-f580-45e5-8362-44e15779ae10-660x371.webp "4450e106-f580-45e5-8362-44e15779ae10")
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II Ep. 12 "The Reason to Fight" gives us a real plot twister in this final episode of the season. A plot twist that involves actual military personnel, no less. Let's just say that the NPCs are most definitely not what anyone expected them to be. Sword
![Blue Box Ep. 12 "Girls...": Festival Of Worries [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/blue-box-review-1-660x371.webp "blue box review")
Much of where Blue Box Ep. 12 "Girls..." takes place in is during a summer festival. However, there's not many chances for our main characters to enjoy the fesitivities, it seems. Between teenage angst about romance and a lost kid, this festival seems more like a festival of worries than anything
![DAN DA DAN Ep. 12 "Let's Go To The Cursed House": Hot Springs Haunting [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dan-da-dan-review-1-660x371.webp "dan da dan review")
DAN DA DAN Ep. 12 "Let's Go to the Cursed House" takes us right back to the anime's roots as a horror anime. Complete with some very creepy stuff happening in this hot springs town, including some sexual assault. Too bad it all stops right in the middle before the story concludes anything. I guess
![Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II Ep. 11 "Pitohui's Attack": Unorthodox Tactics [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sword-art-review-660x371.webp "sword art review")
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II Ep. 11 "Pitohui's Attack" shows how a good defensive position combined with some well-programmed bot players can make orthodox tactics useless. Of course, our main characters aren't entirely without options here. When orthodox tactics fail, then it's
Daemons of the Shadow Realm gives us some truly fateful meetings between old friends (and family) and new in Ep. 14 "Family and Friends". All complete with some dark secrets spilling forth out of the shadows, and Yuru's bond with his old friends and family being tested quite a bit. All in all, I
Cinema history is riddled with both coming-of-age tales and biopics aplenty. Tony, the new feature by Matt Johnson (BlackBerry, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie), lies at the intersection of these well-worn traditions. Based on Anthony Bourdain’s chronicles of his early journey into the
Indulging every absurd idea that pops into his head, the film unfolds with propulsive vibrance and unshackled execution. That approach turns out to be a bit of a gift and a curse for Riley; a gift in the sense that we get something fresh and original, but a curse because its unbridled approach
