Angel's Anime Rating Guide

Over the weekend, I had a peek at the crowd-funded anime, Under The Dog ... It is the year 2025, five years since devastating terrorist attacks put an end to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The UN has taken control of the former Olympic site on the edge of Tokyo Bay, placing it beyond Japan’s jurisdiction. Hana Togetsu is a seventeen-year-old high school student who lives in the area. Not your typical teen, she belongs to a special unit run by the UN. Hana is sent on a mission as a transfer student to a public high school on Enoshima Island. Her target: Shunichi Nanase, a boy in her class. As Hana is about to make contact with her target, a middle-aged man appears at the school asking for Shunichi. The situation turns critical when the American military arrives at the school in pursuit of the man. As the bloodshed escalates, another teenage girl begins to make her way to the island to break the deadlock. According to Wikipedia: Under the Dog was originally conceived in the l

Recently, I picked up Rideback ... After an injury forces Rin to trade her stage career for college life, she finds new thrills as a member of the RideBack Club. When she discovers an unusual connection with one machine in particular - Fuego - she is forced into the middle of a revolution. The tyrannical new government rules with an iron fist, and Rin is reluctant to take them on. But as her dearest friends suffer and the insurgency struggles to topple the increasingly powerful regime, Rin may have no choice but to gun Fuego's engines and speed directly into the heart of the fight for freedom. John from the AnimeNation  blog was somewhat disappointed and wrote... Madhouse’s Rideback TV series begins as a loose remake of Production I.G’s 1987 mecha racing OVA Dead Heat (which Production I.G also loosely remade as IGPX) but turns into something else entirely. The series’ first four episodes suggest something like a bishoujo mecha Initial D in which a prodigy discovers her talen

I picked up Evangelion 3.33: You Can (Not) Redo ... This is (not) the world you thought you knew. Shinji Ikari just woke up in his Eva unit fourteen years after starting the Third Impact. He hasn't aged, but everything else has changed. The earth is in ruins. Rei is missing. The people he once protected, treat him like a prisoner and threaten to kill him if he pilots another Eva. When he escapes to the remains of NERV headquarters, Shinji meets pianist Kaworu, who is destined to be Shinji's copilot in a new dual-cockpit Eva. As the boys bond, NERV's true mission begins to come into focus. Lost in a labyrinth of deception, Shinji careens toward a mental breakdown that could bring about the end of humanity. Evangelion 3.33 continues the groundbreaking rebuild with stunning robot battles and mind-bending revelations. The end of every world has a beginning. The latest installment of the rebuild of Evangelion, Evangelion 3.33: You Can (Not) Redo , has certainly taken its ti