East Meets West #6: Digimon Adventure .vs. The Last Airbender

This week I continue my next batch of posts for the East Meets West series, dedicated to comparing/contrasting anime and Western media of similar premises, and, based on a specific set of criteria, decide which of the two is, in my fallible opinion, the superior version. Normally, I try to compare shows based on how similar they …

Anime Review #58: Konosuba – Legend Of Crimson

For a while now, fans of the popular isekai series Konosuba: God's Blessing On This Wonderful World have been clamoring for a third season to follow up after the most recent episode aired in March of 2017. Though the quartet made an appearance in the crossover series Isekai Quartet alongside characters from Re:Zero, The Saga …

St. Pius V Corner: Freedom Of Insanity At Anime North

...a very bitter and fearsome war against the whole Catholic commonwealth is being stirred up by men bound together in a lawless alliance. These men do not preserve sound doctrine, but turn their hearing from the truth. They eagerly attempt to produce from their darkness all sorts of prodigious beliefs, and then to magnify them …

Anime Review #57: Love Live: The School Idol Movie

Following the success of my venture into Love Live: School Idol Project, featuring the exploits of best girl Honoka Kousaka and the rest of μ's as they sing their way to the salvation of their doomed high school, I was delighted to learn that the end of the two-season anime was not the definitive end …

Anime Review #56: Laputa – Castle In The Sky

Almost 36 years ago, on 15 June 1985 (the feast of Sts. Vitus, Modesto and Crescentia) Studio Ghibli, one of the most well-renowned anime studios in the world, was founded by three men: Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki. These men were longtime co-workers, having collaborated on previous projects over the past 17 years, …