My next Boruto review is up on Anime UK News HERE if you’re interested. I know I’m struggling to be! (Okay, to be fair, it’s not that bad, but it’s funny to complain about repeated tropes sometimes…)
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Dragon Ball: Red Ribbon Army Arc (Episodes 58 – 68) Review
Although there is plenty of humour to be had in the next arc (that’s sort of the final part of this overall story…) this part of the Red Ribbon Army arc always feels like the beginning of the turning point towards more action-heavy story telling. Tao Pai Pai is a deadly and serious (until the end) foe, and for the first time Goku decides to use the Dragon Balls to return someone from death. Interested? Let’s have a look then, as the Red Ribbon Army arc draws to a close, but we’re not quite done yet…
Dragon Ball: Red Ribbon Army Arc (Episodes 46 – 57) Review
How much you enjoy the General Blue portion of the Red Ribbon Army arc will depend entirely on how much you can stomach a rather outdated overly camp gay villain being the butt of all the jokes. That and how much knowledge you have of Akira Toriyama’s previous work: Dr. Slump… Interested? Well, read on!
Dragon Ball: Red Ribbon Army Arc (Episodes 35 – 45) Review
It’s time for the Muscle Tower part of the Red Ribbon Army arc, a relatively small part of the narrative but one that managed to stick in a lot of fans-of-the-time’s minds, as Muscle Tower itself has managed to cameo in a lot of future games released in the 2000s. Afterwards is a small collection of mostly filler material, but hey-ho, I have to include them somewhere! Let’s take a look…
Bleach: Can’t Fear Your Own World – Volume 1 Anime UK News Review
It’s funny that I put up my first book review on this blog a month or two back, then suddenly I had my first book review for Anime UK News! “Can’t Fear Your Own World” is a light novel set after the end of the manga series and sees to the job of tying up a bunch of loose ends. Does the first third of this story do the job? Click HERE to find out!
One Piece – Wano Arc (892 – 929) Review
So a bit of a big leap forward in terms of One Piece reviews on this blog, but that’s Crunchyroll UK finally getting streaming rights for you! Yes, I’m covering a batch of recently-aired episodes (stopping at the point where the pandemic stopped the series, though it has resumed before this has gone up!), obviously this isn’t the end of older One Piece reviews as given I do them in batches of roughly 30 or so episodes, these new episode reviews will only be once or twice a year! SO the Wano Arc sees the crew finally arrive in the long-teased country, with the large looming shadow of the even longer teased Kaido in the background. Let’s take a look at how it starts!
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 – Part 1 Anime UK News Review
Thanks to a certain pandemic the sequel series to the one I only just reviewed (or rather, my review for only just went up) is already seeing a release in… I’m just going to put 2202 to save me typing all that out again. It’s hard to judge as it’s only half the story, but I’m liking it so far, even if the way to get everyone back into space was a bit iffy. You can read the review by clicking HERE!
Dragon Ball: Red Ribbon Army Arc (Episodes 29 – 34) Review
The Red Ribbon Army arc is certainly the longest in the original series, though it can be easily split into narrative chunks that make up the whole, as I have done here! (and as FUNimation did, using their weird individually titled “saga” method) That being said, to keep the Muscle Tower part of the story self-contained I’ve had to separate these six episodes on their own, which is a bit… odd. Oh well, let’s take a look at a mostly filler-filled prologue!
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Anime UK News Review
I actually wrote this review back in February for its early March release, then a certain pandemic happened and here we are at the end of June and it finally sees its release. My review of Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 can be viewed HERE. It’s a really good space opera with a very high budget! I hope the sequel can live up to it… though I hear otherwise…
Dragon Ball: 21st Tenkaichi Tournament Arc (Episodes 14 – 28) Review
Now I’m not currently covering Gundam, and no longer covering a Dragon Ball series for Anime UK News, I thought it would be the ideal time to continue my deeper dive into the original series. So after the original 13 episodes we enter a training sequence (featuring the debut of Krillin!) followed by a Tournament arc, two staples of the Shonen genre still in their infancy here. This is also where Dragon Ball was still more leaned towards comedy than action, so how does that blend with a martial arts tournament? Well…
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