Tag Archives: anime

Berserk: 1997 Anime Series review

Berserk and the Band of the Hawk comes out in less than 2 weeks, so let’s talk about the grand-daddy of Berserk on video, the 1997 anime. A 25 episode series that spans the opening of the story to the Eclipse.

Anime Review: The Patlabor Movies

On occasions where I’ve been asked to describe Patlabor in the past, I’ve usually said something to the effect of “It involves a lot of people having conversations in the vicinity of mechs.”  That oversimplification isn’t deliberately meant to be

Anime Review – Record of Lodoss War

My initial introduction to anime was through features and OVAs classified as science fiction of one sort or another, a genre well represented in the art form.  It was inevitable I was going to branch out into trying fantasy themed

Berserk – 2016 anime review

Berserk… It’s a long running series, the manga appears to be entering the end game, the first season of its 2016 series just ended, there is a new PS4 game coming out soon! So, now seems like a good time

VGS Yu Yu Hakusho

If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Spirit Detectives! Today we close out Ani-May (ironically in June) with a look back at one of the best Anime Toonami ever aired, in my honest opinion. From start

VGS: Inuyasha (Ani-May)

What happens when you take an action anime, and a romance anime, and try to fuse them together? You get a mash-up of content that works, but only works for a little while. This anime runs way too long, is way

Ani MAY: Cyber City Oedo 808

As mentioned in my last Ani May article Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s work as a director includes some of the most well known anime ever created, like Ninja Scroll and Wicked City.  The target of this review is every bit as under-appreciated

Vega Goose Says: Princess Mononoke

Hello Enthusiacs Ani MAY continues with a look at what could be Hayao Miyazaki’s greatest masterpiece. Princess Mononoke follows the story of a changing world. Of mankinds first attempt to take the wilderness and bend it to our will.

Ani MAY: Goku Midnight Eye

  My personal introduction to the anime genre came in the mid to late 90’s, when I was in university.  Many of the films, series and OVAs produced in the time roughly between the late 80’s to the late 90’s