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Studio: Madhouse  |  Released: 2003  |  Duration: 1h 32min | Genre: Adventure, Comedy Tokyo Godfathers - An Anime Review Hi Everyone! The Holiday Season is upon us, and with that, we wanted to share one of our favourite Christmas movies with you all. We’re talking about Satoshi Kon’s film Tokyo Godfathers. And if you’re familiar with his work you know you’re not likely to be disappointed. This film has so much charm and character and boasts one of the best set of protagonists that we can’t sing its praises enough. We just love it! And if you give it a shot, we’re sure you’ll love it too.  If you'd like to watch our full anime review of the film, feel free to check out the video below: The story follows three homeless people who have banded together to form their own little family unit. We have Gin, the snarky and cynical alcoholic, Miyuki, the sassy and sometimes insolent teenage runaway, and Hana, the overly dramatic yet kind-hearted former drag-performer and a...

      Studio: Radix Ace Entertainment   |  Released: 2002  |  Streaming on: Funimation Haibane Renmei - An Anime Review Hey Everyone! This time we thought we'd talk about Haibane Renmei, a wistful yet beautiful 13 episode anime series created by Yoshitoshi ABe who you may recognize as the character designer for animes like Serial Experiments Lain and Texhnolyze. Haibane Renmei tackles some darker topics such as death and suicide, but does so in a mindful way, which makes Haibane Renmei an anime deserving of notice. For our full review you can watch our anime review video below. For the rest of this post, we’ll be going over our theories about the series so you are advised that from this point on there will be spoilers - So let’s get to it! Just a quick disclaimer before we get started - we are not personally religious, so any mention of religion or spiritual beliefs were approached from a purely academic standpoint and are used merely to explain a...

 Anime Review - Witch Hunter Robin Hey Everyone! If you follow our blog then you may have seen our “ Top 10 Horror Anime List ” post from way back in 2017 and will probably be familiar with the anime Witch Hunter Robin. But with Halloween right around the corner, we thought we’d revisit this occult hit again. Like always you can check out our full anime review over on our Lazy Lion Youtube Channel where we cover the anime more in-depth, but here’s some bonus info we don’t mention in the video. A brief summary: Witch Hunter Robin is a 26 episode anime that was released by studio Sunrise in 2002. So another oldie but a goodie. It follows the story of Robin Sena, a fifteen-year-old girl, who has been sent by the witch-hunting organization SOLOMON, to work over at their branch in Japan, known as STN-J, after they lost one of their hunters. Quick side note - Hunters are people with the witch gene, but whose powers haven’t awoken yet and are known as Seeds for their potential to turn i...

Studio: Group TAC  |  Released: 2004  |  Streaming on: Crunchyroll Gakuen Alice - Anime Review Hey Everyone! It’s September again, which means it’s back to school time! We can’t pretend this year will be normal or that it won’t have its extra challenges… which is why we thought that Gakuen Alice would be the perfect anime to showcase this month. It’s cute and fun, with a current of sinister running underneath it.       Follow Mikan Sakura as she starts a new school year at the prestigious Alice Academy; a government-funded school for those who possess Alices. What are Alices you ask? Alices are special abilities such as flying, mind-reading, elemental manipulation, you know all those things we mere muggles can only dream of.  Only just discovering what Alices are and that she in fact has one, Alice Academy is a magical place for the country bumpkin Mikan. And best of all she gets to experience it all with her best friend Hotaru who is also attendi...

Studio: Madhouse  |  Released: 2004  |  Streaming on: Funimation Anime Review - BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad   Hey Everyone, 
 Back in November, I was so excited about this upcoming Summer’s concerts and festivals, only to have all my plans dashed by this Coronavirus situation. To say that I have a case of the COVID Blues is an understatement, and I’m sure some of you are feeling the same way. But don’t fret cause just because you can’t go outside doesn’t mean we can’t bring the concert to you, with a little known anime called BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad that will hopefully help satisfy your concert cravings. Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad is a music / coming of age anime by studio Madhouse. The anime is based on the Manga series Beck by Harold Sakuishi, which follows the journey of Koyuki Tanaka as he finds purpose in his life through Music. Throughout the story he comes across various people who all impact his life one way or another, helping him to grow and fin...

Happy Shark Day! Hey Everyone, Mandy here ~ Today’s all about spreading awareness about shark conservation. As a fellow Canadian, I was so proud of the work that Rob Stewart was doing towards ocean conservation and how he was educating the public on a greatly misunderstood creature - the Shark. I was fascinated by his first film Sharkwater (2006), and basically pestered everyone around me to watch it, going so far as to buy hard copies to give to people as gifts (yes I’m one of those people). I did the same with his film Revolution (2012), and would probably have done the same with his final film Sharkwater: Extinction (2018) if there were any hard copies, but there aren’t any so all I can do is pester you all “Watch his films! It will change the way you look at sharks forever.” Sharks have been on this planet longer than most other species, the earliest known sharks dating back to more than 420 million years ago, with the modern-day sharks that we’re familiar with showi...

Studio: Sunrise  |  Released: 1996  |  Streaming on: Funimation Anime Review - The Vision of Escaflowne Hey Everyone, today we thought we'd talk about the anime The Vision of Escaflowne! Aside from InuYasha, another favourite of ours, the Vision of Escaflowne was one of the first Isekai animes we ever saw. But instead of travelling back in time like the former, our main protagonist Hitomi Kanzaki gets accidentally transported to a completely different planet called Gaea by a mysterious boy named Van Fanel, who just so happens to be the next King of a country called Fanelia. No “oh I learnt about this in history class” moments to help you here. So less Timeless and Outlander, and more Wizard of Oz. Granted Gaea isn’t much different from Earth in appearance, and neither are the main inhabitants who look exactly like earthlings, but its fauna and other inhabitants sure look different, seriously what is this? Porpoise Man? We love it! The creators of T...