Love and Peace! Trigun: Badlands Rumble
Five years since its announcement, and twelve years after finishing its Japanese television run, Trigun fires its way into theaters with the release of the film Badlands Rumble. Vash the Stampede once again stumbles and fumbles his way into a lost, extended, standalone episode from the first half of...
A Visionary Genius Takes Us Into The World of Adolescent Girls: Takamichi Love Works
I’m gonna come clean: I’m not a huge reader of Comic LO. But not without good reason. See, with Comic LO being one of those phone-book sized manga anthologies, it’s a publication that is better paged through physically than a directory visually scanned in thumbnail mode. Also, it’s just...
Polymar! He will save us!!
Back in the mid 90s, auteur anime director Shinbou Akiyuki was cutting his directorial teeth on a bunch of short OVAs. I’ve seen a couple of these, and while they’re not great, they’re an interesting look into Shinbou’s style, and how it’s developed. One of these OVAs was Shin...