When I first heard of High School of the Dead, I figured it’d be little more than a mildly entertaining anime-style remix of the same old zombie movies I’d seen so many times before. I was completely wrong. Something unexpected and very disturbing happened at the end of the first episode: I realized I’d never [...]

VS. Round 1: Episode 14 Kibure: Watched it five times, never saw her Flower Girl: Appeared thrice Advantage: Flower Girl Round 2: Macross 7 Dynamite OVA Flower Girl: Didn’t appear in it Kibure: Didn’t appear in it Advantage: Draw Round 3: Commercial Bump Flower Girl: Got one in the Fleet of the Strongest Women OVA, [...]

Today is October 1, a date of great significance in human history. No, I’m not talking about the Battle of Gaugamela, the beginning of Shinkansen service from Tokyo to Osaka, or even the Thrilla in Manila. I’m talking about the fateful day when savage war engulfed the world and civilization was destroyed: 1997, October 1, [...]