Pantheon is solid, intelligent, probing science fiction, as good an example of the genre as you can hope to encounter. The scientific literacy and verisimilitude will remind you of Andy Weir or Peter Cawdron, and the moral and ethical complexity and ambiguity is straight from the pages of Harlan Ellison or Phillip K. Dick. Yes, it’s that good.
I didn’t do a lot of reviews this past year. Fifty three in all. It was an election year and I write mostly about politics, and I have a backlog going into 2025. Also, if I think something is rubbish, I’m very unlikely to review it. And there was a fair old bit of rubbish that came out last year.
Also known as Arcane: League of Legends Genre Action-adventure, Adult animation, Drama, Science fantasy, Steampunk Created by Christian Linke, Alex Yee Based on League of Legends by Riot Games Showrunners Christian Linke, Alex Yee Directed by Pascal Charrue, Arnaud Delord, Bart Maunoury Voices of Hailee Steinfeld Ella Purnell Kevin Alejandro Katie Leung Jason Spisak Toks …
Genre Adult animation[1][2] Dark comedy[3][4] Psychological drama[5] Created by, Showrunner written by and directed by Gooseworx Main voice cast Lizzie Freeman as Pomni, the most recent human to be trapped in the circus. Her in-game avatar is a jester.[4][6][7] Alex Rochon as Caine, the circus’ wacky yet unstable AI ringmaster with a set of teeth …
Created by Zack Snyder, Jay Oliva, Eric Carrasco Composers Hans Zimmer, Omer Benyamin, Steven Doar Voices: Sylvia Hoeks as Sigrid, a half-human, half-Jötunn warrior who swears revenge on Thor after he interrupts her wedding and slaughters her clan. Stuart Martin as Leif, a human king and Sigrid’s lover who joins her quest for vengeance. Paterson …
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin Alternative title: Tensui no Sakuna Hime (Japanese) 天穂のサクナヒメ (Japanese) Directed by Masayuki Yoshihara Written by Jukki Hanada Music by Yoshiaki Fujisawa Directed by Masayuki Yoshihara Written by Jukki Hanada Music by Yoshiaki Fujisawa Studio P.A. Works Licensed by Crunchyroll Naomi Ōzora as Sakuna Hime Aoi Koga as Yui Hikari Kubota …
Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction (Japanese: デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション, Hepburn: Deddo Deddo Dēmonzu Dededede Desutorakushon), also abbreviated as DDDD Genre Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Slice of life based on Manga Written by Inio Asano Written by Reiko Yoshida, Takaaki Suzuki Music by Taro Umebayashi Studio Production +h. Licensed by Crunchyroll Released May 24, 2024 – September 20, 2024 …
Scavengers Reign Created by Joseph Bennett & Charles Huettner Starring Sunita Mani as Ursula, a crewmember in the Demeter’s horticulture lab; stranded on Vesta with Sam. Wunmi Mosaku as Azi, a cargo specialist on the Demeter; stranded on Vesta with Levi. Alia Shawkat as Levi, a robot from the Demeter; stranded on Vesta with Azi. …
Golden Kamuy First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Saichi Sugimoto ゴールデンカムイ (Gōruden Kamui) Manga Written by Satoru Noda Published by Shueisha English publisher Viz Media Imprint Young Jump Comics Magazine Weekly Young Jump Demographic Seinen Original run August 21, 2014 – April 28, 2022 Volumes 31 (List of volumes) Anime television series Directed by Hitoshi Nanba …
The Grimm Variations (Japanese: グリム組曲, Hepburn: Gurimu Kumikyoku, ’Grimm’s Suite’) Genre Anthology[1] Original net animation Directed by Yōko Kanamori, Yasuhiro Akamatsu, Jun’ichirō Hashiguchi, Yumi Kamamura, Masato Takeuchi, Shintarou Nakazawa Produced by George Wada Written by Michiko Yokote Music by Akira Miyagawa Studio Wit Studio Episodes 6 Runtime 32–46 minutes Manga Illustrated by Kōji Megumi Original …