Upcoming Reviews

Continuing in my season of anime reviews, the following will be coming over the next few weeks:

• Ghost in the Shell 1 and 2 boxset - the first of these was one of the most influential films in it's genre due to it's seemless blend of computer generated imagery and traditional animation. It's $20 million sequel takes it's story from the Manga of the same name,
  
• Lost Odyssey - the award winning game for the XBox 360 by the creators of Final Fantasy,
• Akira - the most well known and critically acclaimed movie of the genre, probably most famous for it's bike,
  
• Princess Mononoke - one of the most popular anime movies in Japan, and directed by the famed Hayao Miyazaki,
  
• Spirited Away - directed by Hayao Miyazaki it was the winner of an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, and was the first anime movie to win an Academy Award,
  
• Final Fantasy 7: Advent's Children - part of the compilation of Final Fantasy 7 series acontinuation of the game that many fans see as being the best in the series,
  
• Tales from Earthsea - the series loosely based on the 1st, 3rd and 4th books of the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin
  

Already reviewed is the new Batman: Gotham Knights and the first volume of the Black Cat series. At the end of these reviews I'll be reviewing the new Origin: Spirits of the Past that is just being released on DVD in the UK with a special edition being released by HMV. These reviews will be available both on New Earth Online and Musing of a Developer.