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A total existential sci-fi anime, shaking hands with A.C. Clarke with the right and Ender Wiggin with the left. The depressing atmosphere holds reliably from start to finish, yet there are a few blemishes. First and foremost is the character confusion, which might not be so great if the motivations or, better yet, the origins of at least the main characters were clearer. But this problem simply arises when filming large-scale prequels. Akira will definitely keep you riveted to the screen, but it didn't take me personally by the heart. Yes, he's certainly and rightfully a legend, but Card and his Wiggin saga leads the ... genre for me.

While Japan has Shinigami and Hollows, England has witches and dragons, on the one hand it looks like apples and pears, but the acronym SSWB, meaning "Soul Society West Branch" says otherwise. In short, it's Tite Kubo again, you can tell by the character models, with one of the main heroines looking like a more mature (not just in one particular body part) and taller Rukie, and the other heroine being a bit of a copy of Hijori, with a short-haired and taller Orihime, actually Marcy here, and I could go on and on like this.... What's worse is the fact that the Ichigo here, ... well so does Balgo, so far seems like a much more annoying and stupid character - I know at least one person who wouldn't believe that's possible... Anyway, I've seen a brief introduction to an interesting world, it's like Bleach meets the Dragon Hunter and occasionally even borrows a bit from Harry Potter, which I really like and obviously has a lot of rules and weird stuff to offer. Even animation-wise it was quite distinctive, Studio Colorido did a decent job - visually I was intrigued. I could find a few quibbles with the characters, like I've already written about Balgo, but overall I'm interested in them. So if this is another Tite Kubo project that gets a full anime sometime in the future, easily about the length of that Bleach, I'll check it out. This sneak peak was actually pretty cool.

This visually stunning spectacle oscillates between classic and modern vampire horror, post-apocalyptic sci-fi, action, western and romance. A touching, beautiful romance. The banal story has more layers than you'd guess after absorbing the basic info and manages to grab your heart and shake it hard at many points (the final scene is downright heavenly). A few dialogues about the tragic past and the unfortunate fate of the characters certainly don't hamper the speed with which D hurtles forward. Blades spark against each other, music blares, adrenaline soars. And at any moment you can turn your mind away from the action and just marvel. I hadn't ... even recovered from the talking hand that glosses over the actions of its "wearer" and already my jaw was dropping at the sight of one of the villain's henchmen, whose belly literally clenches his fangs as he transforms into a werewolf. The last minutes are a visual orgy. Excuse my uncritical enthusiasm, I've found the vampire in me.

I haven't seen a worse anime movie so far, I don't mean that in a bad way, but the way it's done I mean the narration that there's an old guy animated telling someone else's story I really don't like that, I really like anime where there's a samurai story etc but with this one I turned it off after about 30 min or I would have fallen asleep, I would prefer if it was in the style of the character who lives it to tell the story, if we understand each other, and not that someone else tells it:(

nothing for me unfortunately