
All the while, as I’ve been waxing rhapsodic about YU YU HAKUSHO, you lunatics have been asking met to check out this - - one of Togashi’s other major creations. Two occurrences don’t make a trend, so I won’t get carried away with trying to make any deep insights into ...

I figure every fanbase loves discussions pondering “hypothetical fans” who could come into their world without the usual preconceptions. Will an eager novice who’s somehow never seen a LOTR movie, nor even heard of Tolkien, be able to appreciate or understand the new HOBBIT flick, for example? Will they have ...

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There’s a give and take when I’m doing episode-by-episode write-ups for Watch & Learn. A lot of times, I don’t get to view a show I love all the way ...

Huh. So MAGI is an anime reworking of 1,001 ARABIAN NIGHTS? Seems rather obvious, now. When I first got a press release about this show a couple months back, though, ...

And we’ve at last reached that inevitable point in W&L where my episode-by-episode commentary on a show starts more-or-less riffing on the same notions for each installment. In PSYCHO-PASS’ case, ...

I’ve never been the biggest Harry Potter fan, but I’ve always found it pretty funny how the flicks played the “poor Cinderella’s cruel step family” card to such a cartoonish ...

Which animator in the Bones staff just loves to draw Gatling guns? It feels if there’s ever an available opportunity for something to be transmutated into a six-barrel MG, that ...

Ha! I’m (very morbidly) pleased to know that somebody else has seen all the potential ominousness in Body Worlds that I have...Don’t misunderstand me - - that traveling exhibit of ...

And we’re back, somewhat, to cover the last ONE PIECE episode of 2012. Apparently, the show’s staff took a week-long hiatus themselves, so we’ve got a little while before romanticism ...

This year's been seriously long, but there were a lot of good and bad points within this year, so let's start enjoying the last of it by seeing what was ...

As you might’ve surmised, I’ve been taking a little time off for the whole Christmastime/New Year spread. Maybe there should’ve been a post up last week, laying that all out ...

The time has come for all to cast their votes for Anime Vice's Top of 2012. The voting starts now and will end at 11:59pm, January 7th with the final ...

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One of my favorite chapters in any novel, ever, lays somewhere in the middle of DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (the book BLADE RUNNER is based on) where the ...

Happy Holidays, Anime Vice Community!! Tom and Sam covered the topics of Serious Life Advice on the VICE PIT, and they also put the challenge to the audience to create ...

I’m not going to bother to actually research this, but I’ve got a strong hunch that football isn’t too popular in Japan. Well, the football that we know here as ...

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The plan to win the war for the Shinobi Alliance has been delivered, but first there is the set up. With Naruto being the key to victory, it's the Hyuga ...

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With a title like SAY, “I LOVE YOU,” this sounded like it was going to be the most saccharine, schmaltzy show imaginable. Seriously, it sounds like some stereotypical chick flick ...