 wrote a review of A Sign of Affection
Score 8/10 Studio Ajia-do’s 2024 romance holds few surprises and errs on the side of caution in its lack of drama. It is so safe that it is almost dull. Handsome young backpacker Itsuomi Nagi comes to the aid of fellow student Yuki Itose on a train and rapidly learns that she is deaf. For her it is... Read krofire's full review
Yuki is a typical college student, whose world revolves around her friends, social media, and the latest sales. But when a chance encounter on a train leads to her meeting friend-of-a-friend and...
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wrote a review of BabylonScore 8/10 Studio Revoroot’s 2019 adaptation of the Mado Nozaki novels is an interesting psychological thriller built around three-story arcs. It is probably overly long, which tends to numbs its impact, yet it is also a little special. Zen Seizaki is the public prosecutor in a new city outside of... Read krofire's full review
Zen Seizaki is a prosecutor with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office. While investigating illegal acts by a certain pharmaceutical company, Seizaki stumbles across a conspiracy over an...
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updated their review of ARAGNE: Sign of VermillionScore 5/10 Sentai Studios 2018 CGI horror flick is pretty horrific yes, but it is spoilt by its muddled and mixed-up story-telling. We would rather not have to dig around on the internet to look for some fan’s explanation of the plot. Central character is the doe-eyed Alice-in-wonderland-like character... Read krofire's full review
- Movie (1 ep x 75 min)
- 2018
Rin’s new apartment building is a far cry from the sunny, idyllic photos from the rental brochure. And instead of offering sanctuary from a dangerous world outside, it oozes decay and dread...
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wrote a review of ARAGNE: Sign of VermillionScore 5/10 Sentai Studios 2018 CGI horror flick is pretty horrific yes, but it is spoilt by its muddled and mixed-up story-telling. We would rather not have to dig around on the internet to look for some fan’s explanation of the plot. Central character is the doe-eyed Alice-in-wonderland-like character... Read krofire's full review
- Movie (1 ep x 75 min)
- 2018
Rin’s new apartment building is a far cry from the sunny, idyllic photos from the rental brochure. And instead of offering sanctuary from a dangerous world outside, it oozes decay and dread...
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wrote a review of Wasteful Days of High School GirlsScore 9/10 Studio Passione launched this hilarious and quirky comedy in 2019 just one year after Lerche set the bar pretty high with “Asobi Asobase”. If you loved one you will love the other. Madcap Japanese School-Girl-shows are a common-place sub-genre but it takes a touch of genius to make... Read krofire's full review
Bored out of her skull, Tanaka decides to give her friends some rather quirky nicknames, but they aren’t going to take her unflattering descriptions lying down. Sakuchi (who got saddled with... |
updated their review of Land of the LustrousScore 9/10 Just occasionally whilst trawling the anime back-catalogue you can stumble over something a little special. This looks like nothing else you have every seen. Maybe not to everyone’s tasted but Studio Orange’s 2017 sci fi adventure really stands-out as one of those rare anime that can... Read krofire's full review
In the distant future, microscopic organisms have left the planet desolate and given way to a new life form: Houseki. However, all is not peaceful. The 28 Houseki must fight against the Moon...
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wrote a review of Land of the LustrousScore 9/10 Just occasionally whilst trawling the anime back-catalogue you can stumble over something a little special. This looks like nothing else you have every seen. Maybe not to everyone’s tasted but Studio Orange’s 2017 sci fi adventure really stands-out as one of those rare anime that can... Read krofire's full review
In the distant future, microscopic organisms have left the planet desolate and given way to a new life form: Houseki. However, all is not peaceful. The 28 Houseki must fight against the Moon...
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updated their review of Teasing Master Takagi-san MovieScore 10/10 Despite having loved the first three seasons of “Teasing Master Takagi-san” we were not necessarily expecting a great deal from Shin-Ei Animation Studio’s 2022 movie. However, we really underestimated the writing on this and were, instead, simply blown away by just how good this... Read krofire's full review
- Movie (1 ep x 73 min)
- 2022
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updated their review of Teasing Master Takagi-san MovieScore 10/10 Despite having loved the first three seasons of “Teasing Master Takagi-san” we were not necessarily expecting a great deal from Shin-Ei Animation Studio’s 2022 movie. However, we really underestimated the writing on this and were, instead, simply blown away by just how good this... Read krofire's full review
- Movie (1 ep x 73 min)
- 2022
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wrote a review of Teasing Master Takagi-san MovieScore 10/10 Despite having loved the first three seasons of “Teasing Master Takagi-san” we were not necessarily expecting a great deal from Shin-Ei Animation Studio’s 2022 movie. However, we really underestimated the writing on this and were, instead, simply blown away by just how good this... Read krofire's full review
- Movie (1 ep x 73 min)
- 2022
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updated their review of Princess PrincipalScore 7/10 Studio 3Hz/Actas’s 2017 fantasy action adventure shows us what is possible when steampunk and anime universes intersect. Sadly, this mash-up is way off the mark and is yet another example of a show that promises so much but delivers so little. This is all despite a very strong start in... Read krofire's full review
At the end of the 19th century, London, the Kingdom of Albion has been split into East and West sides by a giant wall. Five girls attend Queen's Mayfaire, a conventional and prestigious school. Under...
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wrote a review of Princess PrincipalScore 7/10 Studio 3Hz/Actas’s 2017 fantasy action adventure shows us what is possible when steampunk and anime universes intersect. Sadly, this mash-up is way off the mark and is yet another example of a show that promises so much but delivers so little. This is all despite a very strong start in... Read krofire's full review
At the end of the 19th century, London, the Kingdom of Albion has been split into East and West sides by a giant wall. Five girls attend Queen's Mayfaire, a conventional and prestigious school. Under...
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wrote a review of Prima DollScore 6/10 Bibury Animation Studios’ 2022 sci fi show blends cute battle-bots with a café lifestyle threatened by war. Only in an anime universe would anyone consider these waifus to be weapons of war. It is the same obvious absurdity that we witness in “Nier Automata” (but at least... Read krofire's full review
Autonomous mechanical dolls, also known as automata, work at Kuronekotei, a coffee shop that sits at the corner of the fifth district of the imperial capital. However, they were originally made as...
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updated their review of My Master Has No TailScore 8/10 Liden Films’ 2022 fantasy-comedy is one of those shows on a topic so unique to Japanese culture that you will have never seen anything like it before. If you liked Ghibli’s “Pom Poko” (1994) you will be familiar with Japanese myths about the tanuki (Japanese Racoon Dog) who... Read krofire's full review
The time is the Taisho Era. Mameda, a tanuki girl who came to Osaka dreaming of becoming a human, meets a popular rakugo artist, Daikokutei Bunko. Mameda, who was impressed by the storyteller's way...
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updated their review of My Master Has No TailScore 8/10 Liden Films’ 2022 fantasy-comedy is one of those shows on a topic so unique to Japanese culture that you will have never seen anything like it before. If you liked Ghibli’s “Pom Poko” (1994) you will be familiar with Japanese myths about the tanuki (Japanese Racoon Dog) who... Read krofire's full review
The time is the Taisho Era. Mameda, a tanuki girl who came to Osaka dreaming of becoming a human, meets a popular rakugo artist, Daikokutei Bunko. Mameda, who was impressed by the storyteller's way...
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wrote a review of My Master Has No TailScore 8/10 Liden Films’ 2022 fantasy-comedy is one of those shows on a topic so unique to Japanese culture that you will have never seen anything like it before. If you liked Ghibli’s “Pom Poko” (1994) you will be familiar with Japanese myths about the tanuki (Japanese Racoon Dog) who... Read krofire's full review
The time is the Taisho Era. Mameda, a tanuki girl who came to Osaka dreaming of becoming a human, meets a popular rakugo artist, Daikokutei Bunko. Mameda, who was impressed by the storyteller's way...
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wrote a review of Little Busters!Score 7/10 J.C.Staff’s 2012 school-life comedy drama looks a little long-in-the-tooth now and is somewhat tiresome. Originating in a 2007 visual novel, it comes from the same stable as “Clannad”, “Kanon” and “Air” the story centres on a bunch of childhood friends in... Read krofire's full review
When Riki was young, a group of friends called the Little Busters helped him move on from a terrible loss and taught him how to smile again; but when their leader Kyousuke moved away, the group...
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updated their review of Hakumei and MikochiScore 8/10 Studio Lerche’s 2018 iyasheki tale of tiny folk living in a bucolic forest idyll can often look like a kid’s cartoon with its mix of human and full-size talking animals. Yet this sure is not “Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom”. Despite its cutesy-wootsy style the... Read krofire's full review
While Hakumei is cheerful, outgoing and prefers to be outside, Mikochi is more introverted and prefers to stay indoors. These differences will set the tone for their friendship. Riding on insects and...
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updated their review of Hakumei and MikochiScore 8/10 Studio Lerche’s 2018 iyasheki tale of tiny folk living in a bucolic forest idyll can often look like a kid’s cartoon with its mix of human and full-size talking animals. Yet this sure is not “Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom”. Despite its cutesy-wootsy style the... Read krofire's full review
While Hakumei is cheerful, outgoing and prefers to be outside, Mikochi is more introverted and prefers to stay indoors. These differences will set the tone for their friendship. Riding on insects and...
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updated their review of Hakumei and MikochiScore 8/10 Studio Lerche’s 2018 iyasheki tale of tiny folk living in a bucolic forest idyll can often look like a kid’s cartoon with its mix of human and full-size talking animals. Yet this sure is not “Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom”. Despite its cutesy-wootsy style the... Read krofire's full review
While Hakumei is cheerful, outgoing and prefers to be outside, Mikochi is more introverted and prefers to stay indoors. These differences will set the tone for their friendship. Riding on insects and...
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updated their review of Hakumei and MikochiScore 8/10 Studio Lerche’s 2018 iyasheki tale of tiny folk living in a bucolic forest idyll can often look like a kid’s cartoon with its mix of human and full-size talking animals. Yet this sure is not “Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom”. Despite its cutesy-wootsy style the... Read krofire's full review
While Hakumei is cheerful, outgoing and prefers to be outside, Mikochi is more introverted and prefers to stay indoors. These differences will set the tone for their friendship. Riding on insects and...
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updated their review of Hakumei and MikochiScore 8/10 Studio Lerche’s 2018 iyasheki tale of tiny folk living in a bucolic forest idyll can often look like a kid’s cartoon with its mix of human and full-size talking animals. Yet this sure is not “Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom”. Despite its cutesy-wootsy style the... Read krofire's full review
While Hakumei is cheerful, outgoing and prefers to be outside, Mikochi is more introverted and prefers to stay indoors. These differences will set the tone for their friendship. Riding on insects and...
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wrote a review of Hakumei and MikochiScore 8/10 Studio Lerche’s 2018 iyasheki tale of tiny folk living in a bucolic forest idyll can often look like a kid’s cartoon with its mix of human and full-size talking animals. Yet this sure is not “Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom”. Despite its cutesy-wootsy style the... Read krofire's full review
While Hakumei is cheerful, outgoing and prefers to be outside, Mikochi is more introverted and prefers to stay indoors. These differences will set the tone for their friendship. Riding on insects and...
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updated their review of GATEScore 8.5/10 Studio A-1 Pictures 2015/16 fantasy battle-action adventure delivers far more entertainment than its premise suggests. The idea of an inter-dimensional portal opening in Tokyo delivering an invading army of medieval soldiers doesn’t seem overly promising. The soldiers come from a fantasy... Read krofire's full review
On August 20XX, a gate suddenly appears in Tokyo's Ginza district, unleashing a portal where monsters, medieval knights and other fantasy beings come from another world and wreak havoc on Tokyo. The...
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updated their review of GATEScore 8.5/10 Studio A-1 Pictures 2015/16 fantasy battle-action adventure delivers far more entertainment than its premise suggests. The idea of an inter-dimensional portal opening in Tokyo delivering an invading army of medieval soldiers doesn’t seem overly promising. The soldiers come from a fantasy... Read krofire's full review
On August 20XX, a gate suddenly appears in Tokyo's Ginza district, unleashing a portal where monsters, medieval knights and other fantasy beings come from another world and wreak havoc on Tokyo. The...
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wrote a review of GATEScore 8.5/10 Studio A-1 Pictures 2015/16 fantasy battle-action adventure delivers far more entertainment than its premise suggests. The idea of an inter-dimensional portal opening in Tokyo delivering an invading army of medieval soldiers doesn’t seem overly promising. The soldiers come from a fantasy... Read krofire's full review
On August 20XX, a gate suddenly appears in Tokyo's Ginza district, unleashing a portal where monsters, medieval knights and other fantasy beings come from another world and wreak havoc on Tokyo. The...
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wrote a review of Farming Life in Another WorldScore 8/10 Studio Zero-G’s 2023 Isekai is pretty much what is says on the label and is so simple that you might initially be repelled by the concept. Yet hold on a second, is there more to this? As an example of Isekai we expected to hate this. Yet, oddly enough, we could not bring ourselves to dislike... Read krofire's full review
After Hiraku dies of a serious illness, God brings him back to life, gives his health and youth back, and sends him to a fantasy world of his choice. In order to enjoy his second shot, God bestows...
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updated their review of Scum's WishScore 8/10 Lerche’s 2017 adult-orientated teen-sex drama seems to have been the very model for Diomedea’s “Domestic Girlfriend” (2019). The two share an uncanny similarity and when Sayuri kicks in at the closing titles with the song “Parallel Line” (Heikousen) you get the... Read krofire's full review
Hanabi and Mugi are bathed in envious gazes from all around as a beautiful couple with excellent moral conduct. But these two apparently perfect people in an apparently perfect relationship share a...
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wrote a review of Scum's WishScore 8/10 Lerche’s 2017 adult-orientated teen-sex drama seems to have been the very model for Diomedea’s “Domestic Girlfriend” (2019). The two share an uncanny similarity and when Sayuri kicks in at the closing titles with the song “Parallel Line” (Heikousen) you get the... Read krofire's full review
Hanabi and Mugi are bathed in envious gazes from all around as a beautiful couple with excellent moral conduct. But these two apparently perfect people in an apparently perfect relationship share a...
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wrote a review of The Severing Crime EdgeScore 7/10 Studio Gokumi’s 2013 gothic horror fantasy features youngsters possessed by murder weapons. These weapons were handed down to them as family heirlooms from ancestors who used them for mass murder in the distant past. It kicks off when teem Kiri Haimura meets Iwai Mushanokouji and their fates... Read krofire's full review
Kiri has been obsessed with cutting others' hair since he was a child, to the extent that he always carries a pair of shears with him wherever he goes. So when the boy accidentally meets Iwai, a...
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