Whether it’s the latest info on a new game, or hot gossip on the industry’s movers, shakers and smashers, you’ll find it all here and nicely packaged at Kotaku. They’d be one in the same in every lexicon on the planet if it were humanly possible. Honorable mentions: Black Clover (great show, too much yelling), The Ancient Magus Bride Recovery of an MMO Junkie is easy to watch and, days after binging its first few episodes, I’m excitedly waiting for the next. Outside of the game, Moriko’s life is a comedy of errors. The MMO sequences are funny, tender and exciting in equal parts. Why watch it? I’m a sucker for shows that pull off a good plot set in an MMORPG. Outside of the game, Moriko encounters a charming salaryman whose good qualities remind her of someone else’s… Plot: A 30-year-old woman named Morioka Moriko quits her job and downloads an MMORPG she quickly becomes addicted to, where she meets an adorable, kind-hearted girl avatar who helps out her “hot boy” avatar. This is a pink pastel, Lolita acid trip of a show, and it’s about girls defending the rich culture that they helped create from empty beings who want to steal it. One of the magical girls fires a cannon twice her size. The aliens are floating pink, sucky, bell-shaped things. There’s a talking prawn tempura sidekick. To defend their beloved Harajuku from having its culture sucked up by the invaders, schoolgirls transform into psychedelic magical girls to defeat the aliens, who explode into cute food. Plot: Japan, and specifically Harajuku, a district famous for kawaii fashion, is taken over by a race of aliens without culture. I love how the show’s gorgeous animation and careful plot pacing make me more open to considering ways of life so different from my own. Why watch it? Kino’s Journey is a triple threat: Badarse, thought-provoking, and full of wonder. Kino’s mantra: “The world is not beautiful, therefore it is.” 44 revolver, Kino stays in each town for only three days and two nights as a rule – long enough for him to question his own principles and values, but not too long that he’d be tempted to settle down. Plot: In this reboot of the psychological 2003 anime of the same name, we again join the androgynous traveller Kino and his talking motorcycle as they bike to idiosyncratic countries and learn the strange ways of new people. Slice-of-life moments centred on the elderly protagonist are deeply heartbreaking, which made me fully appreciate how brave he is to devote himself to justice. Its pacing is slow enough to build emotional tension, but in its quicker moments it delivers on adrenaline. Why watch it? The sense of deep psychological discomfort Inuyashiki inspires reminds me of a Satoshi Kon movie ( Perfect Blue, Paprika), which means it’s at points hard to watch, but ultimately very, very good. After he encounters a teenager who met the same fate and turned evil, the man decides to fill the emptiness in his life by saving others. When he wakes up, he’s become a state-of-the-art mechanical killing machine. As he’s crying alone, a supernatural explosion encompasses him. Plot: An elderly man who has little to live for is diagnosed with cancer. Where to Watch: Not yet available in Australia Watching through the 52 anime we showcased in our spring 2017 anime preview, four anime stood out to me as innovative, moving or binge-worthy.
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