Anime Review #52: The Place Promised In Our Early Days

In my last three Anime Review posts, I looked at works created by acclaimed director Makoto Shinkai, known by some as the second Hayao Miyazaki for his charmingly sentimental works released throughout the past decade. One thing they share in common is the same trope featuring a friendship later blossoming to a romance between an …

Anime Review #51: Weathering With You

One has to wonder what goes through the mind of Makoto Shinkai these days. Following the success of Your Name in 2016, he decided to continue his line of success and work on his next project, Weathering With You (also known as Tenki No Ko). As was the case with his former film, it follows …

Anime Review #50: Your Name

Sometimes life surprises you in the wildest of ways. Up until last Thanksgiving, I had no idea what Makoto Shinkai's Your Name was all about. Granted, I had heard the name being thrown around and was quite familiar as to its widespread appeal, but that's about all I had running about it from face value. …

Anime Review #49: 5 Centimeters Per Second

Today is the 4th of January, in the year of Our Lord 2021; I would like to take this time to wish all of you a Happy New Year! Now that we're out of the woods of what has been unanimously declared as the worst year in recent memory, one can hope that the following …

Anime Review #48: Little Witch Academia – The Enchanted Parade

I'm sure many of you remember Little Witch Academia. I certainly don't - after all, it's only been several months since I both watched, and reviewed this anime on my blog. However, prior to the production of this series in 2017, two separate films were released by Studio Trigger; one of them being Little Witch …