by moxie | Apr 13, 2023 | Action, Adventure, Anime, comedy, drama, Fantasy, Foreign
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Tsuyoshi Mukouda finds himself transported to an alternate fantasy world where his only skill is “Food Menu”! Crunchyroll has been inundated lately with all manner of isekai or alternate fantasy world anime, and each one tries to have...
by moxie | Apr 12, 2023 | Action, drama, Foreign, Movies, suspense
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A mother hiding a killer secret that she’s actually a professional assassin, deals with the trials of being a single mother to a begrudging teenage daughter, and oh yeah, difficulties and potential regime changes at work! So Gil Boksoon (Jeon...
by moxie | Mar 7, 2023 | Action, drama, Events, Foreign, Historical, horror, Movies, Romance, suspense
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of a small 19th century colony of Native Hawaiians who refuse to accept government-mandated exile when leprosy breaks out amongst their people and home. Imagine it. You’re a Native Hawai’ian, having lived in and loved the islands...
by moxie | Feb 8, 2023 | Action, Adventure, Anime, comedy, drama, Fantasy, Foreign, horror, Sci-Fi, suspense
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Another in a long line of newer isekai (alternate fantasy world) anime, BOFURI introduces VRMMO gamer Kaede Honjo as her online character Maple, in the game New World Online. As the long title rather cheekily suggests, Maple doesn’t fancy...
by moxie | Jan 31, 2023 | Action, Anime, comedy, drama, Fantasy, Foreign, horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, suspense, Video Games
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Edgerunners courier spoilers too! Set in the dystopian cybernetic criminal world of the wildly popular video game Cyberpunk 2077, where megacorporations raise corruption to an art form and black market mercenaries called Edgerunners risk...
by moxie | Jan 25, 2023 | Action, drama, Events, Foreign, horror, Movies, suspense
Hong Kong is plagued by a series of terrible murders, of former suspects in cold cases who’ve evaded capture for years, by a vigilante gang calling themselves the Chosen Sleuths. In order to tell a whole entire story that includes new generations of detectives and...