Tag: SHAFT

Kizumonogatari III: The Final Battle

Originally planned for release in Autumn of 2012, the completion of the Kizumonogatari saga has finally come to pass in this bright new year of 2017 with the release of Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu. With this film being the trilogy’s grand finale, it’s very difficult to examine it without revealing key...

Kizumonogatari II: Not Kids’ Stuff

SHAFT did it! They got the movie out on time. Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu dropped as announced in Summer–August 19th, to be exact–continuing the grim and gruesome tale of Araragi Koyomi, Hanekawa Tsubasa, Oshino Meme and Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade. Where as Tekketsu opened by letting the audience slowly soak in Araragi’s circumstances...

Kizumonogatari Tekketsu: SHAFT Ups the Ante for The Silver Screen

When first touching down in Japan in late 2011, the one big theatrical anime I was looking forward to feasting my eyes on was Kizumonogatari–at the time slated for release in Fall of 2012. As the story goes, the promised time would come and go with little more than a...