Old School
- Silent Mobius - Movie (Jul 16)
- The Wizard of Oz (Jun 17)
- Patlabor OVA (Apr 10)
- Robot Carnival (Mar 9)
- Giant Robo (Feb 9)
- Project Eden (Jan 8)
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July 2003 [1]
June 2003 [1]
April 2003 [1]
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Is Really Special
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As you've no doubt heard, ad nauseum by now. But what is it about this game that has people so wild? Dustin spends 20+ hours in Hyrule to figure it out.
― Nintendo made a new Zelda game. It's a good one. You should play it. That's really about as much as anyone needs to hear when it comes to Breath of the Wild, but similar praise came along for Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess, both of which are g...
ANNCast (Video) - Nacho Cheese Kiritos
anime
Zac and Jacob strap on their augmented reality gear and do combat with the Sword Art Online movie. PLUS: The Legend of Zelda, Tanya the Evil and much more!
― ANNCast Episode 289 - Nacho Cheese Kiritos Zac and Jacob strap on their augmented reality gear and do combat with the Sword Art Online movie. PLUS: The Legend of Zelda, Tanya the Evil and much more! You can listen to the show on our player here...
Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale
anime
Sword Art Online jumps from the small screen to the big screen and in the meantime swaps out virtual reality for augmented reality. Theron Martin lets us know how it all turned out.
― Unlike previous animation for the franchise, Ordinal Scale is not even partially based on the source novels by Reki Kawahara. It is, instead, an original work penned by Kawahara specifically for this movie. As a result,...
The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Week of Feb 26-Mar 4
anime
What goes up must come down, especially in the case of Masamune-kun's Revenge. Find out how your favorite shows fared in our weekly user rankings!
― Our team of reviewers are following 27 anime series of the Winter 2017 season and readers are rating each episode as the reviews go up. So let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season. Keep in mind that these ranking...
This Week in Games - Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey
games
Dustin dusts off his alchemy books for Atelier Firis on the PS4. PLUS: Zelda, Zelda and more Zelda, next week's new releases and much more!
― I got one of those fancy new Nintendo consoles this week, and I like it a lot—with some reservations. I wrote a lot of words about it here, but the short version is that it's a solid foundation for a platform that will be great by the end of the year. My pro co...
Digimon Adventure tri. Episodes 14-17 Streaming
anime
After months of speculation, the fourth installment of Digimon Tri finally reveals all the story's biggest secrets, but are these answers worth the wait? Jacob Chapman finds out.
― This may not be as fascinating to the average Digimon fan as it was to me, but in all of Tri. - Sōshitsu's baffling and disappointing glory, it just so happened to exemplify the crucial difference between "plot" and "story...
Answerman - What Do Miko (Shrine Maiden) Actually Do?
anime
You see them all the time in anime, usually wielding supernatural powers, but what do shrine maidens actually do in the real world? Justin gets into it.
― Eric asks: There are some anime series that features miko or shrine maiden that I'd seen it lately like for example Kikyou from Inuyasha, Mokoto Aoyama from Love Hina and Mitsuha Miyamizu from the movie Your Name (Kimi No Na Wa). And I know that t...
Chasing Flowers - Wolf's Rain and Romanticism
anime
Anne Lauenroth explores the themes of postapocalyptic longing in Wolf's Rain, and might just get to the bottom of what the end of the series really means.
― "It is not the treasures [...] that have awakened in me such unutterable longings. Far from me is all avarice; but I long to behold the blue flower. It is constantly in my mind, and I can think and compose of nothing else. [...] It seems as if I ...
Cyborg 009 Call of Justice
anime
Netflix's new CG version of this long-enduring franchise is fully accessible to newcomers, though the CG's visual style may not work for everyone.
― Cyborg 009 is one the most enduring of all modern Japanese entertainment franchises, with its original manga dating to 1964 and a number of anime and game productions scattered over the more than half-century since that time. The most recent effort, 2016...
One Weekend With Nintendo Switch
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This Week in Games' Dustin Bailey recounts his first weekend with the Nintendo Switch, from its concerning lows to its dizzying highs - including the amazing Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
― Nintendo's latest console is exactly what we wanted from the company—at least in theory. A unified platform combining a handheld and a home console, focusing all of the company's development efforts on a single syste...
Vice & Luna - 03/07/2016
just for fun
Justice rains from above when Vice learns to trust the power of teamwork instead of his own dumb impulses - with Perry's help!
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack Blu-Ray
anime
One of the most memorable classics in Tomino's Universal Century canon has finally come to Blu-ray, and Lauren Orsini is ready to strap in and see how it holds up in high definition.
― This movie is the culmination of the 14-year-old rivalry between Char Aznable and Amuro Ray, but it may be difficult to stay focused on this point, seeing as much of this movie is told from the perspective of a charact...