Undeath leads to a deeper enjoyment of life, in Yusuke Ishida’s adaptation of Haro Aso and Kotaro Takata’s manga.
Category: Manga
Rohan at the Louvre
A mangaka faces the dark, dark past in Kazutaka Watanabe's adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's one-shot comic.
Blue Thermal
A university student breaks out of her shell and immediately attempts to fly in Masaki Tachibana’s animated drama.
The Violence Action
The jokes hurt more than the stabbings in Toichiro Ruto’s manga adaptation
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Final Alchemy
Thank Father that's finally over.
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar
The Fullmetal Alchemist movies continue to be visually pretty but as void as the inside of Gluttony.
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
A big, bad wolf faces the consequences of the life he’s chosen in Mamoru Oshii and Hiroyuki Okiura’s dystopian sci fi.
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill
The fabled assassin returns in this non-lethal but much-improved sequel.
The Fable
A hitman just can’t catch a break in Kan Eguchi’s action-comedy adaptation.
Fullmetal Alchemist
Director Fumihiko Sori enters the Gate of Truth and shows us that transforming animation to live action can be just as horrific and dangerous as human transmutation.
Uzumaki (and the Problems with Adapting Junji Ito)
Uzumaki, the movie, will no doubt be many people’s first foray into the twisted mind of Junji Ito – so does it do him justice?
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K
Saiki Kusuo’s live-action film is just like his life: an absolute disaster.
The Asian Cinema Critic 