It’s become an anticipated moment on The Nihon Review‘s calender, as we’ve just turned in our seventh annual review of the year in anime: 2011: A Year in Review. This year we all agreed that we liked what we saw from the best series that anime had to offer, even in spite of yet another [...]

Firstly, today we say farewell to MK, who we wish to thank for his contribution to The Nihon Review over the last two years. Thank you, MK, we wish you well for the future. Secondly, we’ve decided it’s a good time to release some initial details about the upcoming Staff Contest. Our intention is to [...]

Elineas has pitched in today with two new anime reviews.  The first is the much hyped Colorful (Movie).  It’s good, but does it live up to its acclaim?  The second review is a sequel: the recent completed The World God Only Knows II, which, in my eyes, was a big improvement over the first season.  [...]

Today Kaikyaku lets us in on a little insight about herself: she was a mad Agatha Christie fan as a kid.  So it’s only fitting that that she’s taken a look at the anime adaptation, Agatha Christie’s Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, which it a tad muted compared with the original novels.  She’s also shared [...]

As those who listened to the most recent episode of our The Nihon Revue podcast already know, Akira has announced that he is leaving The Nihon Review.  Akira joined us in 2007 to review J-music albums and live action, and expanded to reviewing anime shortly after that.  He became one of the most important pioneers [...]