TV Reviews7.8/10
Black Butler Review: Ciel and Sebastian Drive a Sprawling Victorian Horror Franchise
A demon butler, a young nobleman, and Victorian London's darkest mysteries. Black Butler's tale of revenge and loyalty, reviewed.
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Tag: A-1 Pictures
TV Reviews7.9/10
Blue Exorcist (2011): A Confident Adaptation of a Strong Premise
Blue Exorcist 2011 review: Rin Okumura, True Cross Academy, Kurikara, A-1 Pictures, and why the sibling dynamic holds up. Score: 7.9/10.
TV Reviews8.5/10
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War — A Genius Standoff Across 37 Episodes
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War review: two geniuses refuse to confess first across three seasons, 37 episodes, and two films from A-1 Pictures.
TV Reviews7.9/10
Fairy Tail’s guild-as-family formula, 17 years on
Fairy Tail ran 328 episodes over eight seasons. A review of Hiro Mashima's wizard guild anime, from Sirius Island to the Igneel reveal, rated 7.9/10.
TV Reviews8.6/10
A pianist who can’t hear his own playing finds a violinist who won’t let him quit
Your Lie in April: a piano prodigy who can't hear his own playing, a violinist who drags him back, and the lie that ends it. Review of the 2014 anime.
TV Reviews8.5/10
A Decade On, ‘Erased’ Still Can’t Decide Whether Its Hero Deserves a Do-Over
Erased (Boku dake ga Inai Machi) ran 12 episodes on Fuji TV's Noitamina in 2016, adapting Kei Sanbe's manga about a man sent back 18 years to save a classmate.
TV Reviews8.5/10
A boy who cannot pilot and a girl with a reputation for killing her partners. That is the engine of Darling in the Franxx, and it does not stall.
DARLING in the FRANXX review: Hiro and Zero Two pilot Franxx in a dystopian mecha romance from A-1 Pictures, Trigger and CloverWorks.
TV Reviews10/10
Solo Leveling Turns a Weakest-Hunter Premise Into a Story About What Power Takes From You
Solo Leveling review: Sung Jin-woo's rise from E-rank hunter to Shadow Monarch, A-1 Pictures' animation, and why the 10.0 score holds up.
TV Reviews8.1/10
Sword Art Online: The Anime That Launched a Genre and Never Quite Lived Up to Its Own First Arc
Sword Art Online review: A-1 Pictures' trapped-in-a-game anime, its first arc's brilliance, Kirito and Asuna, and where the long tail falls short.