Anime Review #62: The Garden Of Words

You know, at some point there comes a time when one needs to look at an anime, realize how much wrong there is with it, and simply turn off the screen, and walk away from the madness. I've been able to do that with several series over the course of my lifetime; notably Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds …

Anime Review #53: Children Who Chase Lost Voices (From Deep Below)

Back in my university days, I remember watching a South Park episode called A Ladder To Heaven, where main characters Stan, Kyle and Eric build a "ladder" consisting of other people's junk to reach the sky, where they believe Heaven is located. Their reason? They want to see their friend, Kenny, who had died of …

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 …