Towan no Quon continues to traverse some pretty dark territory, and still feels very much at home smack dab in the middle of the BONES tradition. While we still aren’t getting much in the way of background, bits and pieces are continuing to trickle out. We also saw a continuation […] Read more
As predicted in this space, a big-screen adaptation of Doctor Who has been confirmed. Interestingly, it sounds as if Matt Smith will not play The Doctor and Steven Moffatt won’t be writing, so it doesn’t explain the odd gap in next year’s “Who” schedule. Fans will remember that their were […] Read more
For an OVA I hadn’t even realized was coming until two hours ago, I’m amazed by just how good Tokubetsu Bangai Hen really was. Let’s face it, how much you enjoyed this OVA is probably going to correlate to how much you enjoy Kuro as a character. If you’re one […] Read more
When I think of the anime adaptation of Deadman Wonderland, what I think of mostly is missed opportunities. This OVA certainly isn’t going to change that, but it does show what Manglobe can do with this story when they take on bite-size chunks of it. You wouldn’t know it from […] Read more
Towa no Quon returns with a second episode that’s tighter, darker and more focused than the first. Thanks to solid production values and an outstanding cast, it provides solid entertainment and some fairly effective character drama. In some ways BONES, more than any studio, feels both more firmly rooted in […] Read more
The first thing I need to say is that the second “Kira” OVA is certainly better than the first one. Truth be told, it would have been hard not to be. Fresh of the heels, of the stupid, offensive and comically bad opener of this OVA series, Higurashi is back, […] Read more
When Mawaru Penguin Drum premièred in July, it sent hordes of anime fans scurrying towards their search engines to find out more about “Night on the Galactic Railroad”. But this was hardly the first time this influential work has made a splash in Japanese popular culture, and in point of […] Read more
Take Darker Than Black, add a touch of Ghibli and a dash of character designs that look like Leiji Matsumoto and what do you get? Something perhaps in the mold of BONES’ 6-part movie project, Towa no Quon. There’s an interesting pedigree behind this one. It was originally the project […] Read more
I suppose I went at Keiichi Hara backwards. I started with his most recent work, 2010’s Colorful. That was what piqued my interest in his 2007 film Summer Days With Coo. And I haven’t even dipped my toe into his large cache of Doraemon and Shin-Chan work. The oversight is […] Read more
