Howl’s Moving Castle

Having heard only good reviews about this anime adapted by renowned Japanese moviemaker Hayao Miyazaki, I decided to watch it on video one Saturday afternoon. And I never regretted it. 
Based on the novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones, the animated Howl’s Moving Castle is a real visual treat overflowing with magic and […]

Ani-mania in Blogland

It’s been a while since my last WebWatch Wednesday post, so I took some time off this morning to go surfing for anime related blogs, as I’ve promised that long ago day. 
My first stop is naturally Mailyn. I’ve known for a while now she’s a manga/ anime fan and that she runs Perfect Drug, which […]

Anime Mania: Twelve Kingdoms

By now, some readers would have noticed that I do, on occasion, go ga-ga over selected Anime (Japanese animation) series. Twelve Kingdoms is just such a great experience for me. 
 

This series is an adaptation of the novels by Fuyumi Ono, and what is refreshingly different about this series is that, there isn’t (gasp!) a romance […]

Possessed by a Half Demon

Warning: this is a long post!
Between the last post and this, I have been jumping back and forth between modern and medieval Japan, pursuing the adventures of a certain modern teenage girl, Kagome, and a silver-haired half-breed dog demon, Inuyasha.
If anyone had told me two months ago that I would fall in love with Anime […]