Dragon Ball’s enduring generational appeal
The influence of Star Wars is written large on the Dragon Ball franchise, coded into its visual aesthetic and space opera storytelling. For all of the shared tropes and [...]
Dragon Ball Z
The odd couple: our favourite unlikely anime friendships
Friendship doesn’t always make perfect sense on the surface. Many a time, it’s only in reflecting on where we’ve been and how we’ve grown together [...]
Review: Dragon Ball Z Movie Collection 6 – Fusion Reborn / Wrath of the Dragon
A spiritual waste spill at the check-in point between Heaven and Hell sets the evil dead free to walk among the living. So commences this film duette’s final [...]
Review: Dragon Ball Z Movie Collection 5 – The Broly Trilogy
It’s another day in Goku and Chi-Chi’s domestic bliss, stuck in the parents’ interview queue for private school admissions. It’s all Gohan’s mama can do to stop [...]
Going gaga: our top five cutest anime babies
They’re loveable, supremely snuggable, and the sweetest reminder of all the unconditional adoration we took for granted back when we were gurgling cherubs. But here’s to [...]
Review: Dragon Ball Z Movie Collection 4
Released in 1992 and ‘93 respectively, the latest in FUNimation’s Dragon Ball Z movie remasters brings together Super Android 13 and Bojack Unbound – a title harder to [...]
Forget me not: anime’s amnesia problem
Tropes help form the vital architecture that enables a storyteller to weave a narrative, but in so doing they become part of a wider dialogue. Art, as they say, doesn’t [...]
Better than a fairytale: our favourite anime princes
This time of year turns our thoughts to romance, and soothing away the hardships and misery of the dark winter days. What better way could there be to warm our hearts to [...]
Album review: Lipstick – Lipstick II
The golden age of glam challenged social and sexual norms with provocative rockers and a catchy tune or two. It took pioneers like Marc Bolan and David Bowie to give the [...]
Review: Fairy Tail Collection 12
Lucy has had her last memento of her father torn from her hands. The fabled Key of the Starry Sky was stolen by the Legion Corps, holy warriors working under the doctrine of [...]
