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  Samurai Champloo An Anime Review - Bonus Content Studio: Manglobe |  Released: 2004 |  Duration: 26 Episodes | Streaming on: Funimation Hi Everyone! Whenever we think of Summer there’s always one anime that comes straight to mind, which is Samurai Champloo. Must be the smiling giant yellow sunflowers, and we know, we know, it’s already Fall, almost Winter actually, but can’t we give Summer just one final hurray before we bid it farewell until next year? We’ll take your silence as tacit compliance.  So where were we? Oh yes, Samurai Champloo. If you haven’t seen our video review of the series yet we recommend checking that out first if you want to learn more about the plot and creative process. If you’ve already watched it though and are here for the bonus content, don’t let us stop you, and just keep on scrolling.     Now if you guys have been following our blog and videos you’ll know that not only do we like anime, but we also really like history, a...

Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro An Anime Review - Bonus Content Studio: TMS Entertainment  |  Released: 1979  |  Duration: 1h 40min Hey Everyone! Some of you may remember hearing us mention Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro in our previous Cowboy Bebop and 2020 Top Ten videos, but we thought it was so good it deserved a video of its own. Not to mention it is Hayao Miyazaki’s directorial film debut.   We’d recommend checking out our anime review video below on the film first to find out more about the story, the creative process, and even why more and more anime seems to be inspired by Europe. If you’ve already watched it then as always feel free to continue reading on as we’ll be covering some bonus content here that we weren’t able to fit in our video. Darn Those '70s Kids Something that was interesting to find out about the film, was that Miyazaki was mainly targeting it towards all the kids that came of age during the 70s in Japan. Why them...

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust An Anime Review - Bonus Content Studio: Madhouse  |  Released: 2000  |  Duration: 1h 43min Hi Everyone! It’s a little late, but we have another Anime Review for you all! Weirdly it was about this time last year when we came out with another anime review about vampires… Must be something about spring that just makes us long for a good monster horror story. This time, we’ll be talking about the visually stunning animated film Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust by Studio Madhouse. Bloodlust was directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri  (Ninja Scroll)  and is based on the third book, “Demon Deathchase,” from author Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D series.  Some of you might remember it from our Top 10 Horror Anime List post from a few years back. Bloodlust was one of the first anime films we saw growing up and one we like to refer to as an anime classic. Even rewatching it now, we still get blown away by how beautiful and smooth the animation...

Metropolis - An Anime Review Hi Everyone!   Today we decided to look at another anime classic that further helped Japanese animation gain a foothold here in the West. We’re of course talking about the 2001 animated sci-fi film Metropolis by studio Madhouse, which was directed by anime veteran Rintaro (Galaxy Express 999) , and written by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) . Not too shabby.    The film was based on the manga Metropolis, which was created by none other than the Godfather of Manga himself, Osamu Tezuka, who most will associate with the Astro Boy series. When creating his manga, Tezuka was in turn influenced by a still image of Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film also titled Metropolis, which he saw in an article as a teen. This image sparked Tezuka’s curiosity as to what the future would look like should both humans and robots co-exist. Spoiler the fact that Osamu Tezuka ended his Metropolis manga with the line “Perhaps, might the day not come when humans also become too adv...