Chance To Play With The Big Boys? Fanfiction Is Growing Up!

Amazon has announced the release of Kindle Worlds, where it will be possible to publish fanfiction based upon the licences that you so passionately care about, and earn a rather healthy percentage in royalties. A pretty lame selection to start with, but the door is open.

Sasami-san@Ganbaranai Review

Sasami-san@Ganbaranai is a wacky anime about an unmotivated teenage girl, her faceless older brother, and the three mysterious Yagami sisters. The anime consists of 12 episodes and was based on a novel of the same title by Akira and animated by Shaft.

Untapped Potential

Now we all love a good inter-company crossover. Over the years, Superman and Batman have met characters as diverse as the Predator to Bugs Bunny; Superman has met the Thundercats (and going back in time a few decades, He-Man and the Masters Of The Universe), while the Avengers, well……

A Look at Kaiju Gomera

For the past couple of years, the people at IDA Entertainment along with partners Light & Shadow, and Zeppet have been working on a new children’s series called Kaiju Gomera, though there is something hardly G-rated in it. The word “Kaiju” is Japanese for monster, and Gomera is the name of a rookie monster that [...]

Looking For That New Buzz

So, according to the interviews, DC’s upcoming Trinity War starts with the death of one of the heroes. So, we’ve never seen that before.

Welcome to WcDonald’s

You don’t have to watch anime for long to notice something curious about most series: they don’t use the names of actual brands. This is likely due to the legal issues surrounding the use of brand names and copyright infringement. It’s hard to create an entirely new world with its own mega corporations and brand [...]

Little Busters Review

Little Busters is the fourth visual novel from Key to get an anime adaptation. It began airing in the Fall of 2012 and consisted of 26 episodes produced by J.C. Staff. Much like Key’s previous anime adaptations (Kanon, AIR, and Clannad), Little Busters follows the format of having one arc (1 to 3 episodes) devoted [...]

Half The Fun Is Speculation

Maybe I have been led astray by multiple writers that have wondered if there is a direction that Marvel is currently heading in, what with all the various cross-reality stories that are raising their heads in the Marvel Universe. We have worlds crashing together within the New Avengers by the esteemed Jonathan Hickman. The walls [...]

Animation Quality

Having read a lot of anime reviews and general opinions on anime, I’ve come to notice that a lot of people tend to describe animation or production quality as “good” or “bad” without going into any specifics. In order to help make reviews and opinions on animation quality less confusing, here are just some examples [...]

How Much Is Too Much?

Time travel is a much loved trope of all science fiction and fantasy, yet it can frequently suffer the criticism of becoming a Deus Ex Machina.