[This begins a semi-regular feature that examines anime available in North America only through old VHS releases. The first installment look...

Bounty Arms shouldn’t be anything special. It’s a PlayStation action title from Data West, an obscure software publisher that rarely made a...

What's this? Fuck yes. More soon.

I recently rewrote my Bounty Arms article , partly to clear up errors and partly because I can’t forget about the game. There are scores of...

It’s Dreamcast Day, when Sega fans everywhere look back fondly on the last time their favorite company had the remotest chance for widesprea...

Last week saw a proud moment: a group of fans released a translation patch for the PlayStation version of Policenauts . Many thought that t...

[This was originally intended as a review of The Wings of Honneamise , but it turned into a diatribe about the film’s most controversial sce...

I watched a bit of Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross the other day. In the heyday of 1980s space-opera anime, it became the middle act...

You know what I like about Duck Tales for the NES? When Uncle Scrooge ducks, his hat stays in the air for a split second before descending ...

Angel Cop is rightly considered a classic of terrible anime. Released in six parts from 1989 to 1994, it perfectly embodies the violent eth...

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years arrived on Wiiware last week. Some have praised it, and others have complained about paying roughly a dol...

The Legendary Axe II is strange among action-game sequels. While the first The Legendary Axe is a brightly colored exercise in dull cliché...

Prototypes might be my favorite video game subculture. In this edifying realm, fans with too much free time root through early builds and p...

It's time for me to talk about Anime Insider, a little magazine that shut down this past Thursday. I was an associate editor at Anime...

It’s easy to overlook Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon . Toei really tried to make this 1966 film, known in Japan as Gulliver’s Space Jour...

I recently started playing the Game Boy Advance version of Final Fantasy V . Since I’m not in the mood for writing long pieces about the gam...

We cannot help but notice that many older anime fans have grown cynical about the industry that once so enchanted them. “Anime sucks now,” t...

So long, Seta . And may flights of Bio Force Apes roar thee to thy rest. You too, Jaleco . Thanks for all the box art .

I’m still enjoying Tactics Ogre . By all standards of logic, I shouldn’t. It’s a tremendously dated game compared to its modern strategy-RPG...

A lot of kids discovered anime in the 1990s, but I was an unusual case. I wasn’t introduced to it by Sailor Moon or Ronin Warriors or the...