Have you ever had that one show yousit down to watch and you know, no matter how many check boxes it rattles offon your “should I watch this” checklist, you can never let any of your friendsknow you’ve watched it, because it’ll be critically terrible, but it’ll be aperfect guilty pleasure show for you, and then it actually turns out to belegitimately good, and now you can never tell anyone because they’re going tothink the same negative things you thought about it? …

Studio Trigger pulled the double this spring season of 2016. Their first show I came a cross this season was the short wild and wacky tour de force of Trigger intellectual properties: Space Patrol Luluco. The other was Kiznaiver.

Kiznaiver is a big departure for Studio Trigger who have previously only ever dabbled in original works, but now they're putting their skills into a manga adaptation, a first for them if I'm not mistaken. Our "main" character Katsuhira has an odd …

I'll be honest with you: I only picked this one up because the title was fun to say. That, and it was only going to take up five minutes of my time per week (actually closer to four).

Judging by the promo images and such you'd expect this short to be heavy on the ecchi side of things but we don't get that until episode 11 and that one episode where the A/C broke. Other than that this is just standard slice of life/ cute girls doing cute things. No need to go out of your way …

I picked this show up from just looking at the title and promo image: cute girls, vivid colors, happy-go-lucky look to it: basically the perfect show to fill in that empty slot in my seasonal watch list previously occupied by New Game, but boy was I ever wrong to judge this show by its cover. And I could never be happier. 

Instead of the done-to-death trope of a newbie starting from the bottom and working her way up the ladder and winning all the things, our lead girl …

Video Review: https://youtu.be/DS0V83HPIu4

Black Lagoon first saw the light of day as a manga released in 2002. The series went on hiatus in 2010, but was brought back in spring of this year, so what better time to do a retroactive three-part review, amirite?

The anime debuted in the spring season of 2006 and the story starts off with our “main” character, a painfully bland salaryman named Rokuro Okajima, referred to simply as “Rock” for the duration of the show’s run, …

Black Lagoon wrapped up its second season in 2006, but four years down the road they switched to an OVA format for the next arc and over the course of about a year put out five expertly crafted pieces of animation that acted as a brilliant end cap to the franchise.

The family from the Maid to Kill arc of the first season is back and things have gone tits-up back home in Columbia. Vowing revenge for her master’s death, Roberta’s on a full-blown suicide mission to …