Evangelion 2.22 picks up where Evangelion 1.0 leaves off…but not with another rehashed scene from the original series. Thankfully 2.0 has very few of those compared to the first film. You Can (Not) Advance kept me…dare I say?…riveted. Like Eva 1.0 You Can (Not) Advance continues the story from the original series, only it does…
Category: Anime
Evangelion 1.01 You are (Not) Alone
I didn’t really care for the original Evangelion series. It was just too pretentous, and the characters rubbed me the wrong way. Shinji in particular was a whiny wrist cutter who made me want him to just go “up the street.” So, when I heard Evangelion was releasing an OVA series I was hesitant to…
Shangri-La
I was drawn to this anime at first because it looked like Last Exile. I enjoyed that anime’s art so I gave Shangri-La a watch…I made it only halfway before I just gave up. Looks can be deceiving. The world is undergoing a global warming crisis. The governments of the world shift their stock markets…
Yonna in the Solitary Fortress
Yonna in the Solitary Fortress is a fully computer animated short film that tries to create a soft storybook feel. It doesn’t work. The show comes off as just creepy looking. The story is nonsensical but here is a sketch: Yonna and her brother are driven to live in a fortress alone because thye have…
School Days
I’ll admit that I like to watch an occassional romance. When I saw School Days, I thought I’d give it a watch since it’s been awhile since I saw a romance. The anime starts up like one… Makoto Ito begins as an innocent and naive guy who many girls crush on. He has a crush…
Pale Cocoon
If we lost our written memory would we remember our history? Pale Cocoon is a 23 minute OVA about a boy who reconstructs data from the archives. He is interested in what Earth used to look like on the surface, before he and his people built cities deep underground. One of the files he reconstructs…