Kara No Kyoukai (The Garden Of Sinners) | Q's Anime Review

A Complete Series Anthology - Mythical, Complicated, Yet Beautifully Compelling
Kara No Kyoukai (8 Films - 2 Shorts/Specials) 8.34 out of 10 Stars

Kara No Kyoukai was a incredibly breathtaking & mythical production for it's time, marking Hikaru Kondo's Ufotable breakout animation that garnered national attention with team Ufotable's dazzling post production digital effects and CGI - First alongside the rise of it's other peers such as the revamped Shaft with team Shinbo on Bakemonogatari & Naoko Yamada's K On from Kyo Ani. Lately I've talking alot about the early & mid 2000's transition period into incorporating digital colouring techniques (Otherwise known as Digipaint) & CG - And while it certainly was a rough transition, that changed everything from broadcasting standards, production flows to introducing the beginning of the Bluray and DVD format wars, it also so happens to mark the rise of yet another animation tour de force in Ufotable's heavily emphasized post production digital effects and CGI, animating the hesitant Nasu Kinoko's Kara No Kyoukai light novels originally self published online some 18 - 19 years ago. You see, in the years following Nasu Kinoko's amateur debut as a writer, his work was later on edited and refined for official release by the publisher Kodansha in 2004. In that the popularity of his works garnered interest from the animation industry to adapt his works, though he was quick to decline, citing that he just felt that Kara No Kyoukai was never meant to be filmed or animated, being that he felt, if it was animated in to a TV series, audiences attention spans would wane & it would be hard to understand, having to condense and compress way to much of the original story, into enjoyable 20 minute segments that could carry on from a weekly basis -

"Certain people have been wanting to make Kara no Kyoukai into an anime for a while now, but it isn't a story which really lends itself to being filmed, so I always turned them down." - Kinoko Nasu [Akiba Blog September 2007]

The same could be said of a standalone movie as well, though later on he was approached by Kondansha's Oota Katsushi with an offer Kinoko Nasu couldn't refuse - 

"..."I was thinking of teaming up with Aniplex and ufotable and making Kara no Kyoukai into a consecutive seven-movie release; what do you think?" It was such an off-the-wall idea that I got caught up in the enthusiasm; the offer was so awesome that turning it down seemed rude, so I agreed readily." - Oota Katsushi's offer according to Kinoko Nasu [Akiba Blog September 2007]

Kinoko Nasu
[Original Creator]

Hikaru Kondo
[President & Producer]

10 years later, after much confusion & negative press over the non linearity of Kara No Kyoukai's lack of a chronological order, we're left with a modern day classic & a touch stone to the one of few animation breakouts within the 2007-2009 that challenged the entire industry to eventually make the full transition into incorporating the related digital processes into animator work flows. Not only that, but now that the dust has settled, and we have each of the 10 films (depends on how you count) laid out before us, has it really held up to facet of time? Does our unexpected heroine Shiki & Kokuto's story of finding identity, navigating morality & reconditioning the heart still hold it's same magic as it did once before?

Today were taking a special deep dive here to find out exactly what up - 10 years later

Konosuba!! | Q's Anime Review & Commentary

A Vibrant & Unexpected Tale, With Shameless Humour & Spectacular Visuals
KonoSuba - Kono Subarashii (20 Episodes 2 Seasons 2 Ova's) 7.94 out of 10 Stars

Going into Konosuba season 2 I felt really positive and excited of where the first instalment left off and what was to come. Having a great jumpstart for Kazuma's unexpected journey, that began with shamelessly hilarious fun, and the awe of a visually brilliant adventure, with gorgeous animation to boot. Being adapted from the humble origins of Natsume Akatsuki's original web novel, quickly being revised into a light novel a year thereafter, and later on into a Manga, then into the anime we see today. We left the first season with a lot of hope and positivity, having characters such as Aqua and the rest of the dysfunctional rag tag team of adventurers finally triumph, and have their own moments and a sense of accomplishment. S1 started off with Kazuma's shut in life being quickly turned on it's head, quickly ensuing a most wacky and hilarious adventure to come. S1 was balanced with a great amount of comedic banter and innocent adventure, along with a great sense of timing with a nice amount of progress to end the first season.

Konosuba S2 finished airing just last March, but how did the last season fair?

The Monogatari Series | Q's Franchise Anime Review

An Impersonal, Mysteriously Dissonant & a Comical story, with unexpectedly Fragile & Tender moments

The Monogatari Series (3 seasons 74 episodes 12 Ova's + a  Film Trilogy) 8.74 out of ten


The Monogatari series is very loved anime here at RedQStudios, to me it's a series that's infinitely rewatchable & satisfyingly long . It's light heartedly comical, intuitively funny, and unexpectedly fragile, with tender moments. Also with subtly introduced mystery that's alluded to but not exactly defined. Instead of telling a story of happiness, I feel, it's a story of actually trying to find and fight for it, which to me really seems to what the first season Bakemonogatari (Monster story) was all about, and of course the tribulations and tumultuous events that occur in conflict with that goal. Which brings me to Hitagi Senjougahara, the signature Tsundere impostor that's the poster girl for this series. like Araragi I feel both of them are somehow really sort of damaged as human beings, and coming out of those experiences, it feels like they're searching for something and/or for happiness, and that's why I think Bakemonogatari made me feel this sense great sense of optimism and happiness, not only for this series of course, but for just life in general. I feel while this series has this sort of causal nature at times, there's these uncharacteristically familiar yet fresh and new feeling moments that are really touching. It teaches us how we morally, can be naive and in denial about the overwhelming proposition life really is. The way the Monogatari series does romance is really unexpected, it's hilarious, familiar, and yet fresh. Though thankfully, that really is just the tip of the iceberg and that is not all the Monogatari Series has to offer...

Konosuba!! Stuff We Like!! Quick Review & Commentary

A Vibrant, Magnetic And Jovial Treat For The Eyes 
 Konosuba (10 episodes Single season Ongoing) 8.4 out of ten stars

             Perhaps it's too early to review anime that will get another expected season, but what I plan to
to do is I plan to do an update instead and keep the old commentary and review and simply post another commentary upon what was added and developments made etc.. etc... After doing some long form commentary these past few days I'm a little tired, So I felt I would do a commentary on a short but ultra sweet series called Konosuba. A very new series that aired this spring I believe.

             Along with that the characters are rather young, so I don't mind going more into character analysis as their relationships with each other are very simple and straight forward, as this is a comedy/fantasy/adventure series with a dash of some splice of life moments. The animation is just great, Just the right, potent amount of saturation and wonderfully colourful environments, this anime just has such a vibrant place in my heart. Movement and action scenes are fluid as well...