Cardcaptor Sakura Review | Otaku Movie Anatomy

Otaku Movie Anatomy hosts Michelle ChubbyBunny, Yume Ninja, and Jonathan Meza break down Card Captor Sakura! Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie  is a Japanese anime film directed by Morio Asaka and produced by Madhouse andBandai Visual. The film is based on the anime TV series adaptation of Clamp‘s Cardcaptor Sakuramanga series. Written by Nanase Ohkawa, Clamp’s head writer, it was released in Japanese theaters on August 21, 1999. It won the Feature Film Award at the 1999 Animation Kobe. A second film, Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card, followed in 2000. Set between the first and second seasons of the television series, the film shows Sakura and her friends going to Hong Kong where they encounter a vengeful spirit who was hurt by Clow Reed in the past.

The Wind Rises (Miyazaki) | Otaku Movie Anatomy

Otaku Movie Anatomy hosts Michelle ChubbyBunny, Yume Ninja, and Jonathan Meza break down The Wind Rises! The Wind Rises (Japanese: 風立ちぬ Hepburn: Kaze Tachinu?) is a 2013 Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli. It was released by Toho on July 20, 2013 in Japan, and byTouchstone Pictures in North America on February 21, 2014. The Wind Rises is a fictionalized biopic of Jiro Horikoshi(1903–1982), designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, used by theEmpire of Japan during World War II. The film is adapted from Miyazaki’s manga of the same name, which was in turn loosely based on the 1937 short story The Wind Has Risen by Tatsuo Hori. It was the final film directed by Miyazaki before his retirement in September 2013. The Wind Rises was the highest-grossing Japanese film in Japan in 2013 and received critical acclaim. It won and was nominated for several awards, including nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year.

Naruto: The Last Review | Otaku Movie Anatomy

Otaku Movie Anatomy hosts Michelle ChubbyBunny, Yume Ninja, and Jonathan Meza break down Naruto The Last! The Last: Naruto the Movie (ザ・ラスト ‐ナルト・ザ・ムービー‐, Za Rasuto: Naruto za Mūbī) is the tenth overall Naruto film and seventh Naruto: Shippūden film that was released on December 6, 2014 in Japanese theatres. It was made to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the franchise as well as the first instalment of the Naruto Project. It premiered outside of Japan on January 17, 2015 with English subtitles. The official DVD was released in Japan on July 22, 2015 and will be in North America on October 6, 2015.

Attack On Titan: Crimson Bow & Arrow pt 1 Review | Otaku Movie Anatomy

Otaku Movie Anatomy hosts Michelle ChubbyBunny, Yume, and Jonathan Meza break down Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled from Paradise! Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人 Shingeki no Kyojin?, lit. “Advancing Giants”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. The series began in Kodansha‘s Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on September 9, 2009, and has been collected into 17 tankōbon volumes as of August 2015. It is set in a world where humanity lives inside cities surrounded by enormous walls as a defense against the Titans, gigantic humanoids that eat humans seemingly without reason. The story initially centers on Eren Yeager, his adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman and childhood friend Armin Arlert, who joins the military to fight the Titans after their home town is invaded and Eren’s mother is eaten. However, as the story progresses and the truths about the Titans are slowly revealed to the reader, the narrative shifts to encompass Historia Reiss, squad leader Levi, and other supporting characters.

Kouen Tsuihou: Expelled From Paradise Review | Otaku Movie Anatomy

Otaku Movie Anatomy hosts Michelle ChubbyBunny, Yume, Kari Lane, and Jonathan Meza break down Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled from Paradise! Expelled from Paradise (Japanese: 楽園追放 Hepburn: Rakuen Tsuihō?) is a Japanese animated science fiction film. The film is directed by Seiji Mizushima, with a screenplay written by Gen Urobuchi, produced by Toei Animation and animated by Graphinica, and distributed by T-Joy in cooperation with Toei Company. The film had its first public showing in Europe at the Swedish anime-convention ConFusion on December 11, 2014. Seiji Mizushima attended the event himself, partaking in a stage-show, Q&A and other activities. The movie was also imported to the United States by Aniplex USA and on show in 15 theatres across the country on December 13, 2014.