Anime Review #94: Paprika

I shall now be making my first movie review of the year! Satoshi Kon's Paprika, like my investigation into Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland and Netflix's Slumberland, focuses on the world of dreams. Instead of focusing solely on characters who navigate through a dream world and has their adventures there recorded for our amusement, here …

East Meets West #25: Little Nemo .vs. Slumberland

Last November, I learned that Netflix released a live-action adaptation of Windsor McCay's Little Nemo comics, and my first response was "What?" It seemed odd that producers would attempt to hash out a modern-day remake of a franchise that's been dormant since 1927; not to mention, how since then many popular movies with a similar …

Anime Review #76: Digimon Tamers

Five years ago, I was a student web developer at a large law firm in Toronto, where I would meet my current best friend and my worries were limited to getting to work early, finding stuff to get involved with, fiddling with my knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript in the spare hours as well …

Anime Review #74: Angel Beats

The Holy Souls in Purgatory have been a favourite devotion for me to focus on. In the Roman Catholic tradition, these very persons, having died, being saved by the grace of God, but still have plenty of penance to be satisfied on their part, emerge in Purgatory, a place of temporary spiritual purification so that …

Anime Review #68: Rising Of The Shield Hero

The Rising of the Shield Hero is a series that I remember for rather peculiar reasons. I remember being midway through it at the time of the NFL's Super Bowl LIV between the victorious Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers; it was here too I heard about the controversy surrounding a significant plot …

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 #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 …