Anime Review: Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods

Today I will be reviewing an anime movie, one that is truly a special movie. This film has become the  eighteenth movie in the Dragon Ball universe and has become the first anime movie to hit U.S. theaters since films like Akira, Ponyo, and Yugioh: The Movie, were released. This film is also the first Dragon Ball movie whose story is actually in the manga. This movie takes place during a short lived peace after Majin Buu's defeat at the hands of Goku. a great and powerful deity named Beerus the destroyer, a god of destruction, awakens prematurely from his fifty year slumber and is informed a Saiyan has defeated Frieza. Intrigued by this news and curious about a dream he had while asleep, where he battles against a "Super Saiyan God", Beerus decides to go to Earth to find the Super Saiyan god. This film brings all the lovable Dragon Ball universe characters back with the original english voice actors reprising their roles. Other famous voice actors make their appearance, like Jason Douglass(Psycho-Pass, Black Butler II, Elfen Lied) as Lord Beerus, and Ian Sinclair(Black Butler, Future Diary, Hetalia: Axis Powers) as Beerus's aid, Whis. This film is really a cut above the rest of the Dragon Ball Z movies, this film provides stunning animation quality, visually appealing special effects, and a fully original story with plenty of excitement. This movie receives a 7.8/10 and deserves a buy from any Dragon Ball Z fan. For those who are not, try it anyway, you might be pleasantly surprised.

Anime Review: Kill la Kill

From the creators of Gurren Lagann, comes their new hit anime which I personally love called Kill la  Kill. This anime is similar to Gurren in many ways but still holds its own originality and is not just a cheap knock-off of Gurren. Kill la Kill focuses on its Main Character Ryuko Matoi, a vagrant teenage schoolgirl looking for her father's killer. She comes across a school built like a kingdom known as Honnouji academy, which is led by the student council president, Satsuki Kiryuin, who Ryuko believes is the killer. The anime follows Ryuko's adventures in Honnouji academy with her friend Mako, as she battles various foes from the school with her powerful Kamui uniform, Senketsu, for an opportunity to face Satsuki in a fight and find out if Satsuki killed Ryuko's father. This anime definitely deserves to be watched, its a great story with even greater characters. This series has 24 episodes and only about 5 episodes are dubbed in English, though the sub for the show is great. I give the show a 7.8/10. Check out episode 1 and see if you like it.

Anime Review: Psycho-Pass

There are many crime drama anime that have become legendary, anime such as Death Note, Ghost In The Shell, and Cased Closed. This anime is no exception to the trend. The anime is Psycho-Pass and the word to describe it is amazing. Psycho-Pass is a Futuristic crime-drama set in a world where scanners are placed within the city to monitor citizen's "Psycho-Pass" and "Crime-Coefficient" which are color and number scales used to determine the likelihood that someone will commit a crime or how guilty they are, these values are determined and set by a fictional system known as the Sibyl System. In this world there are few crimes committed, but when they are, they are handled by the Ministry of Welfare Public Safety Bureau (MWPSB), a police group made of Inspectors that take the case to find the criminal, and enforcers, latent criminals that are recruited by the MWPSB to weed out  criminals and bring them to Justice. The series has two seasons, season 1 is 22 episodes long and is dubbed in english, season 2 has episodes out to watch in Japanese with English subtitles but has not been dubbed in English yet. I give this series an 8/10 and personally recommend this to any anime fan. Check out episode 1 and  let me know what you think in the comment section of the blog, enjoy.