Anime Movie Review & Retrospective - Lupin The Third: Mystery of Mamoo

Animated feature films played and still play a crucial role in the Lupin The Third franchise and this is especially true for the first one: Mystery of Mamoo. In this article I will take you through the history of how this movie came to be and I will analyse its themes and why it still is interesting and relevant today.

Anime Movie Review - Lupin The Third: Goodbye Partner

This January a new and completely original TV Special of Lupin The Third aired in Japan, the first one since 2013's "Princess of the Breeze" (in the middle there is 2016's Italian Game, but it was not completely original). The Annual TV Special tradition occured between 1989 and 2013 and gave us some really fun Lupin the Third movies along with a lot of mediocre or just plain bad ones, confining the whole franchise to a "for fans only" audience. This was especially true with many of the TV Specials made in the 2000s, and their biggest fault was, in my opinion, how they looked. In the past, even when the plot was just silly or awful, Lupin always offered us some really good scenes with entertaining and well crafted animation, beautiful backgrounds and a memorable character design. Then, the "modern look" came and Lupin The Third started to look just boring. So, when they announced a new TV Special called "Goodbye Partner", I wasn't really thrilled by the idea. I'm always happy with new material with my favorite characters, but after over 25 TV Specials I know how bad it can be. Now we're in May, five months after its airing in Japan, and the english subtitles for the movie are finally out (you can find the SUB ENG on Nyaa.si), so we can see ourselves if Lupin The Third: Goodbye Partner is really bad or not. Spoiler: it is.

Anime Movie Review - My Hero Academia: Two Heroes

Even with its many flaws, I still find the manga of My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi a really enjoyable reading. So when two weeks ago its first animated movie was released here in Italy, I decided to give it a chance and see how it was. The movie was made by Studio Bones, the studio which is also working on the animated series, and directed by Kenji Nagasaki. It takes place between the ending of the second season and the beginning of the third season, during the characters' summer break, and it's set on "I Island" in the occasion of a scientific Expo where an old friend of All Might lives and works.