Casshern Sins is the proper way to remake an old school anime. The art is updated and prettified without losing the retro-style design of the original. The plot sticks to the basics of the original’s but branches off into new territory, it’s more of a re-imagining than a retelling.

I reviewed the Naruto Shippuden series way back at the dawn of this website. So why am I doing it again, you ask? Well, looking over my first review of it I realized it was very vague. True, I had meant for it to be vague-Shippuden was just hitting our shores at the time I was writing it and I didn’t want to be pelted by tomatoes in the streets for inadvertently revealing something and spoiling the new series of Naruto for EVERYONE!

As I said in my previous review, I don’t normally go in for shoujo. But as my last review proved, there are some series in the genre I am surprisingly gaga for. Honey and Clover took the “tried and sometimes tired” themes of the shoujo genre and actually used them effectively to tell a realistic story that everyday grownup(ish) people can like and relate to.

Anyone who was a fan of the first Fullmetal Alchemist series, or of the manga, has certainly been anticipating the release of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. That's probably a little unfortunate for the series, as that amount of hype is nearly impossible to live up to. Another unfortunate fact is that the first Blu-Ray only contains the first 13 episodes, meaning it doesn't get into any of the new content.