The Ones Within is an anime adaptation of the manga series of the same name.  It focuses on a group of lets play streamers who find themselves kidnapped in a mysterious setting and they must work with each other to get millions of millions of views by competing in various challenges based on various video games.  Each character has a background in certain types of video games.  There isn’t really that much high stakes in the series no form of elimination and punishment of fai

Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 is the most recent entry for the Gunvolt series. Kirin is the protagonist and a new introduction to the series. She works for a secret organization, from Sumigami’s Shadow Yakumo group that is battling a massive threat. Kirin defeats the dragon Gunvolt who joins her in fighting the other dragons.  This game is more focused on hack and slash mechanics, but you can still utilize the run and gun mechanics of Gunvolt too. Like before you can level up and g

Miss Monochrome The Animation is an anime series created by Japanese voice actress Yui Hoie and it focuses on a character she created Miss Monochrome and her journey to becoming an idol.  In reality Miss Monochrome is actually something of a pretty niche type of vocaloid with her own cult following of passionate fans but nowhere near as successful as other types of vocaloids especially ones like Hatsune Miku and the rest of the crypton created ones.  The story itself isn’t re

Sister Princess is an anime adaptation based on the light novel series.   It focuses on Wataru Minikami who after flunking his entrance exams, gets an invite to Stargazer Academy where he meets twelve girls who are sisters. He spends his life there with his sisters and he also figures out why he was really invited there in the first place.   The story isn’t really any different to any harem series out there. Many of the episodes follows through a procedural format focusing on

Azure Striker Gunvold pack is a remastered Switch port of the first two Azure Gunvolt games from the 3DS version. The games were developed by Inti Creates as a spiritual successor to Megaman. It focuses on Gunvolt, who must stop evil corporations and other groups of specially enhanced humans known as Adepts from doing terrible things.   Storywise, it is not really the most original as there is other cyberpunk themed related works out there that follow similar themes. It is ac

Radiant Tale Fanfare is a fandisc that takes place after the events of the previous game. It has the same kind of quirky lighthearted tone of the first game.   The story is about a group of circus performers who are trying to save a circus from closing. It contains 3 modes of play from the common and best routes of the previous game, and the interludes, which are side stories that take place during the events of the first game. The stories were fairly short and only take abou

Diamond Daydreams is an anime based on the Kita E series of visual novels and adapted by Hudson Soft and Red Entertainment. The story is revolves around six girls from Hokkaido, their friendships and their various romantic escapades. Each episode is split into multiple parts per girl depending on who the story is built around. Some episodes are more drama based than love themed.  The stories and characters are very cliched and entirely forgettable. There were many moments...

To Heart is an anime adaptation based on the visual novel of the same name. It focuses on the lazy Hiroyuki Fujita and his school...

Death End Re;quest Code Z is a spinoff that Is part of the Deaths End series of games. This format utilizes a roguelike format in...

Devil Summoner Raidou  Remastered is an entry within the Devil Summoner sub series of Shin Megami Tensei. It focuses on the Raidou clan solving mysteries and protecting Japan. The clan is trying to solve a particular case where they must stop a group of demons from creating a super soldier project.    The game instead of being turn based, utilizes a real time combat system like the Tales games. It has some new additions like the stealth strike, locking on enemies and mag drai