Karandi reviews and discusses anime.
Grimms Notes Episode 10 Review - The villains present a compelling argument to which Ex, our hero, simply says he'll trust in the feelings of a character who is following their fate... I'm not exactly sure that's a winning argument.
During the Autumn 2018 anime season, it occurred to me that there are some narrative devices I just don't take seriously anymore. They may have at one point served a valuable narrative purpose or been written with thought and care, but now it seems as though every example I run across is either tongue-in-cheek satirising … Continue reading And With This Monologue I do Progress the Plot
What a way to start the new year, counting down the top anime villains from 2018. These are my favourites but I'd love to know who your favourite villains were in 2018.
This is part of a series of re-posts of older reviews on 100 Word Anime. The original review came out in July 2016 and can be found here. I'm going to be honest, after rewatching this one and re-reading my review, I'm not changing much. So this post is really just here for people who weren't … Continue reading Trigun Series Review: He’s The Most Wanted Man Ever But He’s Just Looking for Love and Peace
Antagonists and villains are visually quite fun characters because they usually end up as fashion disasters or twisted into weird caricatures. Today I want to look at five villains and antagonists that have inhuman characteristics that I think are still pretty cool looking (or at the very least they are memorable). I'd love to know … Continue reading Tuesday’s Top 5: Antagonists With Inhuman Characteristics
Back in 2016 I took a look at villains and their motives in a feature that looked at why so many villains want to destroy and/or rule the world and pretty much drew the conclusion that it was a pretty dreadful motivation. Still, it was fairly early days for my blog back then and to … Continue reading Friday’s Feature: Three Reasons Why Being a Villain Would Suck
Overview: There's no denying that season 1 of this show made me sit up and take notice when I picked it up mid-season after reading many positive reviews. The second season continues Midoriya's journey (as well as the rest of the students' journies) to becoming a hero. Earlier I covered some of the ideas in … Continue reading My Hero Academia Season 2 Series Review: Shining the Light on Heroes and Villains
Review: It is odd where I don't mind a final episode that so clearly is nothing but set up for future engagements, but with a future series already announced and knowing it is very likely to actually be delivered I found myself pretty hooked by this story. So far, the visible leader of the villains … Continue reading My Hero Academia Episode 38: Setting The Stage
Review: This episode certainly continued with the idea of social media and looking at how Stain's influence is spreading in the world of heroes, at least those ideas were running around in the background and permeating the set up for what is apparently to come. I'm glad I spent some time on this idea in … Continue reading My Hero Academia Episode 33: All Might’s Hesitation
While I was a big fan of the 1990's Sailor Moon, I remember how useless some of the individual episode villains were (and how ridiculous some of their costumes looked). I guess when you are a throw-a-way villain of the week it doesn't really matter. Still, here's my list of top 5 Sailor Moon episode … Continue reading Tuesday’s Top 5: Sailor Moon Episode Villains