We’re finally ready to release more details about the NHRV Staff Contest 2012, which begins later this month. The question set for this year has finalized, and is available here. The contest will open from 16th January, and we’ll begin accepting applications from that date. The final deadline with be Monday, 6th […]

More reviews of Fall 2011 series are trickling in! Today sees Sorrow-kun pleasantly surprised by The Idolm@ster. It’s a bit light-hearted at the beginning, but the series becomes suitably dramatic by the end. AC, on the other hand, was not that keen on Kimi to Boku. The series has pleasing aesthetic elements, but he finds […]

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 […]

The impending new year means that one anime season has finished and another about to begin.  Our two latest reviews focus on shows that have ended recently: Nurarihyon no Mago - Sennen Makyou and Un-Go.  The former isn’t anything too special since it’s still laden with shounen tropes (though it is better than the first […]

I’ve always heard good things about Five Star Stories but seeing how it predates me by three days I’ve never been compelled to watch it.  Eternal has an overall positive view of it, but it’s certainly not the glowing recommendation I expected.  
Also, AC reviews Mashiro-Iro Symphony - The color of lovers which lies dead center between good […]