Fire Force – Review – Episode 2

In this episode (called The Heart of a Fire Soldier) we are introduced to a new character Arthur Boyle. Shinra and Arthur grew up in the same academy and Shinra, who always had trouble with communicating effectively, suffered a little jealousy because of the seamlessly easy manner that Arthur managed relationships with people.

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Cop Craft – Review – Episode 1

Before watching I was frightened that it could be a silly fan-service, crime flirtation full of girly blushes and macho stupidity – all knickers and guns. I was pleasantly surprised.  The two main leads were equals in every respect, both with clear personalities and motivations and completely different cultures. It was over in what seemed like 5 minutes.

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The Ones Within – (Naka no Hito Genome) – Review – Episode 1

We weren’t allowed to see anything other than their two dimensional personas which seemed flat and shallow. I found myself not caring of any of them managed to accomplish the levelling exercise or not. I guess the over the top nice dude with the allergies was just about tolerable, but …. naa not really, he was a just a limp dick where as all the others were just dickheads.

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Dr Stone – Review – Episode 1

This first episode was really good.  Well produced, I’m not impressed by the style of animation but it was ok I guess, voice acting excellent and story was good too.  Overall cool/fun/sexy factor was high too.  I’m probably going to watch each episode of this series judging from the first episode (I know it’s too early to tell yet, but this is that good).

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Science Fiction Foreign Language Shows with a difference – Shows you need to watch!

I thought it would be really useful to recommend a couple of shows that you should see when your wish-list begins to look alarmingly low.  These two shows are both foreign language and both fun/cool/sexy and at the same time have a great story.  I commend them for your viewing pleasure.

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Kanata no Astra – Review – Episodes 1 & 2

This is a great show, the graphics are great, it’s set in space and space sure feels vast and intimidating.  The character design is good with clear personalities capable of displaying a broad range of emotions and reactions all acted by excellent voice actors. There are elements of drama, comedy and suspense. 

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