![Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon: Recap Plus Hoshina's Slice Of Life Fun [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/kaiju-no.8-review-660x371.webp "kaiju no.8 review")
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon is exactly what it says on the tin. It's literally just an anime film recapping most of the first season. Not even entirely the first season either. Oh well, at least we get a fun OVA starring Soshiro Hoshina tacked on at the end as a treat. Now if only the entire cast
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Blue Box Ep. 25 "Even So" marks the finale of the first season of this anime. As you might expect from the previous episode, this one deals with the wreck of the Hina ship that sunk then. Interestingly, it's the way the story deals with that ship sinking in a way that blames neither party that
![Blue Box Ep. 24 "A Roller Coaster": Hina Ship Sinking [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0c111d70-bf05-4fc8-85e7-425ac6c5a6e1-660x371.webp "0c111d70-bf05-4fc8-85e7-425ac6c5a6e1")
Blue Box Ep. 24 "A Roller Coaster" isn't quite as exciting as the title makes it out to be. In fact, it varies from being light-hearted fun to being downright tragic, with the roller coaster aspect of the show bringing the emotional feels swinging up and down until it hits the ground. Alas, this is
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The clue to as what Blue Box Ep. 23 "Spinning" is all about is in the title. Taiki is basically spinning in place as he goes into emotional turmoil over his feelings towards both Chinatsu and Hina. It's torture for him, but good entertainment for us. Blue Box Ep. 23 "Spinning": Details There's a
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
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
Though faced with some limitations, "VisionQuest" is a sweet, sorrowful look inwards at what it means to be human.
Just like the Street Fighter movie of the 90s, it's been quite a while since someone has tried to bring the video game back to the big screen. We had Mortal Kombat II earlier this year (which led to quite the rivalry between the two casts), which made the more absurd and video game-like features
Magic Knight Rayearth gives our heroine trio a stroll through some noticeably magical woods in Ep. 3 "All in the Same Boat". Fantasy fans will be fully aware of the fact that magical woods are a staple in such stories. What this episode does though is use a trip through the magical woods to help
