Featuring all collaborative articles written by multiple NHRV staff members. NHRV Staff
Featuring all collaborative articles written by multiple NHRV staff members. Winter 2012: First Thoughts
Ahhh the New Year. A time of beginnings, resolutions, and rebirths. A chance for everyone, everywhere, to start over with a fresh beginning. A chance to wash away the bumps, bruises, smudges, and stains of the last three-hundred and sixty-five days so that we may try again for the better. While the Winter season is [...]
Fall 2011 Mid-season Impressions
With Christmas just around the corner and a whole new season in the wing, it’s time to look at how the fall’s harvests are doing. Though the quantity of anime does not seem to be as massive as the quantities of previous years, the quality (at least on the visual side of things) has never [...]
Fall 2011: First Thoughts
I was foolish to expect this to be a quiet season. While the far and away best anime airing right now technically came from Summer (Mawaru Penguindrum), Fall has just gone “bang” with a number of new series worth getting excited about. There’s a slate of sequels (and prequels in the case of Fate/Zero) from [...]
Summer 2011 Mid-season Impressions
Introduction by Akira It’s Mid-season, and the NHRV Staff have put the season’s shows through the grinder. We’ve found lots of crap, a few genuine gems (the ones that you’d expect, yes), and lots of little girls. It’s a bit disturbing how many shows feature petite nymphets this season, but since some of them are genuinely excellent, [...]
Summer 2011: First Thoughts
A year ago we were graced by the season of Summer 2010, when the flagship series were High School of the Dead, Occult Academy, and Amagami SS. We were thankfully saved by Shiki, but otherwise we left that season screaming for something better. It seems someone heard our pleas, because Summer 2011 has showered us [...]
