Tag: games

March 30, 2023 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. March comes in like a lion resists obvious categorisation. You could call it a “slice of life” anime, but that’s a pretty useless heading these days; Wikipedia’s list of such anime covers everything from Azumanga Daioh to A Centaur’s Life via From Up on Poppy Hill. Pinpointing March more, I’d say it’s […]

November 8, 2021 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Those silly do-gooders in Akihabara, making a computer game company take down a mere advertising billboard on the grounds it might offend, shock or otherwise discombobulate passing members of the public. Then again, since the billboard was advertising a game called More! Knock ‘Em Up! Blazing Boobs Super Erotic App School, I […]

January 9, 2020 · 0 comments

By Paul Browne. If there’s one holiday destination to avoid this year, it’s the island state of Nil Kamui. Having lost its independence during the conflict between neighbouring countries Donatia and Kouran, the people of Nil Kamui find themselves beneath the heel of the occupying forces. Just to keep things interesting, Red Dragon – the […]

May 31, 2018 · 2 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Re: Zero takes one of the most familiar templates of recent anime, then bends it into a phenomenally twisty series. It starts with a high concept – Sword Art Online meets Groundhog Day. One moment our hero, who’s your common or garden teen boy gamer, is in the “real” mundane world, shopping […]

September 9, 2017 · 0 comments

By Roxy Simons. A new century approaches, and the whole world waits in anticipation to see what the New Year will bring. Having suffered through not one but two magical wars, the god-like governing group the Novus Orbis Librarium (NOL) want to maintain their power, but the existence of the powerful warrior Ragna the Bloodedge, […]