11 Jun, 2012

Spice and Wolf ticks a lot of fine boxes, likeable protagonists, standard European medievalish setting, a threatening church and uh, intertown trade conspiracy? That is to say Spice and Wolf establishes a setting and overarching plot but then doesn’t shy from laughing at your expectations that the series will largely be about that overarching plot...

11 Jun, 2012

Hetalia: Axis Powers personified countries and had them interact to portray various political and historical events whilst lampooning the stereotypes about those countries and their people. The anime (based on the original webcomic) served up 5 minute episodes brimming with hilarity and enough historical and cultural references to keep the most strident buff...