Sasaki and Peeps Ep. 3 "The War and the Young Lady" deviates from the anime's usual formula in some very interesting ways. The previous two episodes have been a delightful mix of slice of life comedy and dark fantasy thriller. This third episode still has slice of life comedy in it, but there's no
Sasaki and Peeps Ep. 2 "A First Job and a Partner" gives us more of the slice of life fantasy comedy that attracted me to the anime in the first place. However, this episode also gives us a surprising amount of paramilitary fantasy action as well. I mean, what else do you call it when Sasaki's
Sasaki and Peeps Ep. 1 "Real Life and Fantasy" is an anime that keeps giving you unexpected twists and turns. I came into this anime thinking that it was just a comedic take on an isekai fantasy anime. To be fair, that's what this anime adaptation of the novels of the same by Buncololi starts out
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar