Anime review

• Production: © 1988 R. Takahashi/Shogakukan - Kitty film
• Director: Tomomi Mochizuki
• Music: Hideharu Mori
• Edition: na
• Distributor: na
• Genre: Comedy, drama, romance, slice of life

Maison Ikkoku -Final Chapter- is set in the middle of the last episode of the anime, in 1987, precisely between Kyoko's adieu to Soichiro and her marriage to Yusaku Godai. It was a silent raining day when the postman delivered a letter at the Ikkoku kan. It was only two days before the marriage. Godai was wearing a shirt that read "victory", and his co-tenants were up to drinking and laughing at him as usual. But Ibuki Yagami suddenly came to visit him without knowing he was going to marry and... [Continue...]

• Production: Kadokawa Shoten
• Director: Rintaro, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Katsuhiro Otomo
• Music: Micky Yoshino
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• Genre: Three surreal stories

This movie is surely a big shot, not only in the art of japanese animation, but in the whole world animation too.Masterpiece of concept and technique, Manie Manie Meikyu Monogatari is dated 1983, but it's presented in 1987 during Tokyo International Science Fiction Film Festival, just to be almost forgotten by great audience due to the incapable distribution policy of an equally unlucky company. Manie Manie introduces himself as a sort of container for “experiments” realized by... [Continue...]

• Production: Bandai Visual
• Director: Koichi Mashimo
• Music: Keiichi Nozaki
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• Genre: Fantasy

And arrives the time of the sagas... Not that is a novelty, this time we are in front of a very good project and the word multimedia hasn't never been so suitable. The project ".Hack" encompasses, in fact, the realization of four videogames the television series that here we reviews, 4 OAV and to finish the manga that does continuity and completeness at the story. ".Hack" become a very global project that includes and that has the own union pivot in internet, thanks of the channel that has been... [Continue...]

• Production: Mosquiton Project/Nippon Columbia
• Director: Yusuke Yamamoto
• Music: Osamu Tezuka
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• Genre: Comedy

He is the lord of darkness....He has two canines pointed...He has two retainers that defend him with fire and ice....But he has also a bigger pain seventeen-years-old that says to him all that he must do...He is: Master Mosquiton, the most amusing vampire of the last nineties!!! Mater Mosquiton presents himself as a nice change respects to usual themes of horror that characterize the melodramatic stories or perverse anime. The same Mosquiton doesn't take himself much seriously as a gloomy... [Continue...]

• Production: Studio Ghibli
• Director: Yoshifumi Kondo, Hayao Miyazaki
• Music: Yuuji Nomi
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• Distributor: Buena Vista HE
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What is MIMI WO SUBASETA? (heart whispers) It's a love story?No it isn't just a love story, is a travel of a girl who is searching for herself, for her will and even for her love. Once again Ghibili's studies was able to create a magic film tough it's simplicity, succedeed where other animation films wasn't arrived, supply a lot of keys lecture both children and adults... Mimi wo subaseta is a poem...it's love....it's reality. But let's talk about the story.Shizuku (Yoko Honna, at the voice,... [Continue...]