Alternate Titles: Uchū Senkan Yamato 2199 Anime remake by Xebec/AIC Premise: Humanity has finally made contact with alien life, but hopes for peace are dashed when the mysterious aliens declare war on humanity and obliterate much of planet Earth. With the planet now a desolate wasteland and humans forced to live in underground cities, humanity wages a…
Attack on Titan is set in a world where the remnants of human civilization lives in cities surrounded by gigantic walls to protect them from the Titans, a race of giants who feed on humans for seemingly no cause or reason. Eren Jaeger and his adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman are two inhabitants whom’s lives are dramatically changed when the colossal walls, which have stood unbroken for 100 years are suddenly brought down by a titan larger than any seen before. Eren swears to destroy the monsters who have forced humanity to live in cage of their own creation.
As part of the Young Animator Training Project which is dedicated to the training of young animators, the fledgling studio Trigger, created from the ashes of Gainax’s old talent, has created a short animation. As a huge fan of Gainax’s work, ranging from Gunbuster to Panty and Stocking, I was quite excited to see what Trigger would…
Recap: Jojo and Wham conclude their duel, allowing Cars and Lisa Lisa to begin theirs.
Recap: Kai and Frau work to stop the hacker who’s caused the robots in Tokyo to go berserk.
Recap: Kai continues to unlock the Kimijima Kou reports, while the rest of the team makes progress on GUN-Build 2 with the help of the magical monopole they found earlier. In addition, we get to learn a little more about Frau in the process.
Pachinko Game (?) Adaptation by TMS Entertainment Currently Unlicensed Premise: Manjiro makes a living (sort of) by performing odd jobs and helping out the people of his city, but in secret, takes back the possessions stolen from the people by corrupt political powers. The people call him “Get-backer Roman.”
Recap: Kaito and Frau continue to uncover the mystery and conspiracies that are held within the Kimijima Kou reports. Amidst all the confusion, the final episode of Gunvarrel is suddenly leaked, throwing everything into even greater disarray.
Kaito discovers the impossible: a matryoshka-sized meteorite with the powers of a monopole. Theories are thrown about, but little is actually done. Instead, efforts are focused on convincing Akiho that Gun-Build1 needs to make way for a mark 2.
With the project complete, Akiho’s dream is finally becoming reality. Unfortunately, reality seems to not feel so kindly towards her.
As the resident hot blooded contributor to the blog, it would be unacceptable for me to not feature one of finest OPs in super robot history. Getter Robo Armageddon is often considered one of the first anime adaptations of Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa’s super robot classic, Getter Robo, to accurately portray the manliness and…
As my first opportunity to talk about OPs, there really was no other choice than Samurai Champloo’s sublime Battlecry. Now I won’t lie, I’m a hip hop fan through and through. I know not everyone is, but even if you hate hip hop, there’s something truly wonderful about Nujabes’ musical masterpiece that headlined Shinichiro Watanabe’s stylish follow up to Cowboy Bebop.
Ryota Sakamoto is a 22 year old NEET who lives with his mother. Despite his mundane life, he’s one of the best players in the world at the online game Btooom! One day, he wakes up on a tropical island with no recollection of how he got there. However, it turns out that a real life version of Btooom! is taking place on the island and Ryota will have to survive against the other contestants if he wants to find out how he got there and escape.
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