Evangelion 2.22 picks up where Evangelion 1.0 leaves off…but not with another rehashed scene from the original series. Thankfully 2.0 has very few of those compared to the first film. You Can (Not) Advance kept me…dare I say?…riveted. Like Eva 1.0 You Can (Not) Advance continues the story from the original series, only it does…
Tag: OVA
Evangelion 1.01 You are (Not) Alone
I didn’t really care for the original Evangelion series. It was just too pretentous, and the characters rubbed me the wrong way. Shinji in particular was a whiny wrist cutter who made me want him to just go “up the street.” So, when I heard Evangelion was releasing an OVA series I was hesitant to…
Pale Cocoon
If we lost our written memory would we remember our history? Pale Cocoon is a 23 minute OVA about a boy who reconstructs data from the archives. He is interested in what Earth used to look like on the surface, before he and his people built cities deep underground. One of the files he reconstructs…
Hellsing Ultimate
There is no such thing as immortality…even for vampires. Hellsing Ultimate is an original video animation (ova) based on the Hellsing manga. Hellsing is an organization headed by Integra Hellsing that defends the people of Great Britain from the demons of imagination with hellspawn of their own: Alucard. Hellsing Ultimate opens with an increase in…
Vampire Hunter D
Vampire Hunter D is what Twilight could have been. It wasn’t the best anime, but not terrible either. The future is a Wild West wasteland a la Cowboy Bebop but with a Victorian Goth twist to the decor. Humans have almost made vampires extinct or flee the planet on rockets. A few half-human, half-vampire hunters…
Kigeki
Kigeki (Comedy) is a short anime film produced in 2002 by Studio 4°C, and directed by Kazuto Nakazawa. It features two Schubert pieces, “Ave Maria” and “Erlkönig.” In this dark fairy tale, a young girl, desperate to save her village from invading English soldiers, sets out in search of the legendary Black Swordsman, who accepts…