Little Witch Academia and The Worst Witch It’s hard to imagine two television series that have so many story elements in common, and yet differ so wildly, then the two children’s series, The Worst Witch and the animated Little Witch Academia. Both are situated in a learning facility for teaching magic to female tweeners. Both …
Troll Punters: a Review of Wizards Created by Guillermo del Toro Based on characters by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus DreamWorks Animation TV, Double Dare You Productions Voices: Colin O’Donoghue as Douxie “Big D”, Lexi Medrano as Claire Nuñez, David Bradley as Merlin, Lena Headey as Morgana, James Faulkner as King Arthur, Steven Yeun …
Japan Sinks:2020 Per Wikipedia: Japan Sinks: 2020, was animated by Science Saru, with Pyeon-Gang Ho serving as the series’ director and Masaaki Yuasa as director. Toshio Yoshitaka handled series composition, Naoya Wada designed the characters, and Kensuke Ushio composed the series’ music. Yuko Sasaki, Reina Ueda and Tomo Muranaka are credited with starring roles. It …
She-Ra, Princesses of Power Based on She-Ra: Princess of Power by Filmation, Mattel Developed by Noelle Stevenson Voices of: Aimee Carrero, AJ Michalka, Karen Fukuhara, Marcus Scribner, Reshma Shetty, Lorraine Toussaint, Lauren Ash, Christine Woods, Genesis Rodriguez, Vella Lovell, Merit Leighton & Keston John I was noodling around, reading reviews on the Guardian. I don’t …
Undone Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg & Kate Purdy Directed by Hisko Hulsing Starring Rosa Salazar, Angelique Cabral, Constance Marie, Siddharth Dhananjay, Daveed Diggs, Bob Odenkirk Undone is Amazon’s first original animated feature, and it’s hard to imagine a better start. Alma Winograde nearly dies in a car crash, and awakens with strange new ways of …
Shaun the Sheep Created by Nick Park Based on Wallace & Gromit by Nick Park Developed by Richard Goleszowski & Alison Snowden & David Fine Directed by Richard Goleszowski & Christopher Sadler Voices of Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Kate Harbour, Richard Webber, Emma Tate, Andy Nyman, Simon Greenall, Jo Allen, none of whom actually say …
Vinland Saga Written by Makoto Yukimura Produced by Naokado Fujiwara, Yōko Ueda, & Mitsuhiro Sugita Written for anime by Hiroshi Seko & Kenta Ihara Music by Yutaka Yamada Studio Wit Studio Original network NHK General TV Original run July 7, 2019 – December 29, 2019 Episodes 24 (List of episodes) For fans of the History …
The Promised Neverland Yakusoku no Neverland (original title) TV-14 | 30min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror | TV Series (2019– ) Series Directed by: Mamoru Kanbe (11 episodes, 2019) Series Writing Credits: Kaiu Shirai (12 episodes, 2019) Production manager: Suzanne St. Clair (12 episodes, 2019) Production Companies: Aniplex (production), CloverWorks (animation), Fuji Television Network (production), Shueisha …
A Tartakovsky Primer: a review of Primal Created by Genndy Tartakovsky Story by Bryan Andrews, Darrick Bachman, and Genndy Tartakovsky (Episodes 3–5) David Krentz (Episode 3 only) Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky Voices of Aaron LaPlante Genndy Tartakovsky is, arguably, the best known name in contemporary animation in the west. His efforts include the Powerpuff Girls, …
Cannon Busters I know, I know. Three reviews about anime in one week. Pure happenstance. I’m not auditioning for a job at Crunchyroll, I assure you. I’ll have a couple of good SF books up for review in the next week, and a documentary about religious zanies seeking to control this country. But for now, …