Action
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the action genre. The genre features intense or high-pressure situations often related to combat or quick maneuvering.
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Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Rouge
Despite being based on an abandoned story concept by series creator Yoshihiro Togashi, Phantom Rouge is yet another non-canon shonen cash-in that fails to demonstrate the best qualities of its source material. (read more)
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise
Here are all of the ‘Ghost in the Shell: Arise’ movies I’ve seen and reviewed so far. This reboot of the classic sci-fi IP is more action-focused, and it loses something for it. (Includes movies 1-3 and ‘Another Mission’) (read more)
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Demon City Shinjuku
Pulp horror auteur Yoshiaki Kawajiri bats under par in Demon City Shinjuku, which fails to shock its way into being memorable. (read more)
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Batman: Gotham Knight
Gotham Knight is an animated anthology film consisting of the works of several different Japanese directors. What will the combination of East and West bring to the caped crusader? (read more)
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Wicked City
Neo-noir meets neo-gore as Yoshiaki Kawajiri takes audiences to Wicked City, an atmospheric, criminal underground where demons stalk the streets for their next meal. Spend a night lost in its streets. (read more)
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Twilight of the Dark Master
Desperately seeking something as compelling as Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, I watched Twilight of the Dark Master, an OVA so forgettable that I had to pad out this blurb with anything else. (read more)
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Persona 5 the Animation: The Day Breakers
In this glorified commercial for the ‘Persona 5’ video game, it feels blasphemous that such a stylistic game would be associated with cheap, lackluster animation. (read more)
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Mobile Police Patlabor: Reboot
In a novel, new method of torture, studio Khara delivers a short film that teases the possibility of a new ‘Patlabor’ series. (read more)
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Fate/Zero
‘Fate/Zero’ completely botches the potentially interesting things about its own premise, and all it gets in return is weightless drama between poorly-defined characters and stakes. (read more)
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Appleseed (1988)
An ’80s sci-fi OVA about a police officer and her cyborg boyfriend and partner, ‘Appleseed’ adapts one of the earliest works of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ creator, Masamune Shirow. (read more)