Monthly Archives: October 2020

Its the rare anime which can be successfully adopted from a video game, but thus is what Nightow’s Gungrave does. A intriguing mixture of crime and fantasy , Gungrave is I think partly a homage to the buddy movies of the 90s such as Bad Boys as well as to gangster films like Scarface. ButContinue reading “Gungrave(2003)”

An unusual mech where the sci-fi part takes a front seat vis a vis the much battles, Zegapain starts off as a formulaic mech similar to Code Geass, but turns into a layer sci-fi. The protagonist Kyo’s life is thrown into dissaray when he gets a hot new girl Shizuno to act in the advertContinue reading “Zegapain(2008)”

The medieval Catholic theologian and philosopher St. Thomas of Aquinas argued that there were three characteristics which gave rise to beauty intergritas(intergrity), consonantia(proportionality), and claritas(vividness) a piece of advice which the director of Casshern Sins would have benefited from. This series is a reinterpretation of the 1973 blockbuster series Casshan: Robot Hunter. Rather than playContinue reading “Casshern Sins: The Perils of Beauty without Integritas”