Pocket Picks #9 – Beneath a Deep Blue Sky

It's been a while since i've written on of these, but I'm finally revisiting a show that I feel has a criminally low watch rate. As many of you who've read a lot of my stuff know, my first Anime experience, not to mention my love of Anime as a whole, was inspired by the …

Princess Principal: Final Thoughts

Intrigue, action, a well-written story and, of course, cute girls. Princess Principal, from the description alone, is a show I was extremely skeptical about watching this summer. I mean, cute high school girls spies in dystopian London? Seems like a recipe for an enormous amount of things to go wrong. However, with an incredible first …

Classroom of the Elite Episode 1

With gorgeous art, an intriguing story, and a large and diverse cast of characters, Classroom of the Elite gives us an interesting dystopian story of students attending a prestigious high school. The school gives out an allowance of "points" to the students each month, with each point being worth 1 yen, and 100,000 points each, …

Anime Review: Ghost in the Shell

Oh boy, here's a good one. Thanks to @theringhasawoken for suggesting this one. Ghost in the Shell is a large franchise consisting of several animated movies, several different animated TV series, a handful of video games, and now a live-action version starring Scarlett Johansson. For the sake of simplicity, we're going to exclude the live-action …