Megahouse is going to release the Excellent Model Limited Liko 1/8 non-scale figure from the anime “Active Raid” ( アクティヴレイド－機動強襲室第八係－ ). Will be released in late April 2017. Around 180mm tall,12,528 [...]
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MegaHouse opens pre-orders today for their “Active Raid: Kidou Kyoushuushitsu Daihachigakari” Liko Excellent
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MegaHouse reveals today pre-order information for their “Active Raid: Kidou Kyoushuushitsu Daihachigakari” Liko Excellent Model
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Couldn't find a great cap, so here's a bunch of power suits. That was technically a resolution, even though it didn't resolve any of the stuff I cared about.
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「西から来た男」 (Nishi Kara Kita Otoko) "The Man from the West" Active Raid is back, and it's still goofy.
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Tamashii Feature’s 2016 ( 魂フィーチャーズ2016 ) was held in Bellesalle Akihabara ( ベルサール秋葉原 ) on May 21-22, 2016. It was an exhibition hosted by Bandai featured their up coming products. Tamashii Feature’s [...]
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It’s like Rolling Girls, only somehow even more annoying. Okay, before we get started on this hatefest, I want to bring something up. A number of people have been responding to my complaints [...]
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Robot cops fight criminals. My instinct when this first aired was that it would be a waste of time, but then people told me to give it a second chance, and the second episode had at least one decent [...]
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Active Raid is over! The show ended about as well as it could have – that is, it’s a mediocre show that will be forgotten in a week or two, but it tied its threads together and concluded with relative [...]
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Active Raid had a relatively successful but also kinda bland episode this week, moving its pieces towards the end without much flair or energy. But that’s kind of the deal here – Active Raid has very [...]
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Active Raid had a uniquely disappointing episode this week, and that was pretty much the only unique thing about it. This was basically the platonic ideal of “phoning it in” – there was no personality [...]
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And Active Raid gets another notch in the Good column. The show’s actually developing a pretty good ratio at this point – there have certainly been some weaker episodes, but the greater majority have [...]
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Active Raid drifted back into the good lane this week, pulling off an episode that starred an understandable conflict that built off the show’s core political themes and also illustrated new things [...]
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Well, I’m all caught up and I gotta say, I dig Active Raid, but I’d totally understand if it ain’t for everyone. First off, Active Raid ticks off all my fetishes, including “mid-age crisis giant robot [...]
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ACTIVE Raid? More like, TOKU Raid amirite? It ain’t no secret that I’m into toku, and Active Raid is hitting all my superhero time buttons. The first episode seemed pretty generic. But I decided to [...]
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Well, that was fast. After an unlikely episode that demonstrated Active Raid at its absolute best, we were back to the scrapheap this week, as the show rambled through what was almost certainly its [...]
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Active Raid pulled off a pretty great episode this week, indulging in some classic giant robot love and putting the show’s themes to work. It was clearly a canned genre story, but there’s nothing [...]
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Anime: Active Raid/Kidō Kyōshūshitsu Dai-Hakkei Genre: Action, Police, Mecha, Sci-Fi Studio: Production IMS Source Material: Original Plot: Active Raid Set in a part of Tokyo that has descended into a [...]
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Active Raid had another episode in what is turning out to be its usual pattern – fairly boring episodic thriller, reasonably compelling worldbuilding/thematic background details. These procedural [...]
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An original anime, “Active Raid” or “アクティヴレイド 機動強襲室第八係 ” is a science fiction action series that revolves around the shenanigans of an elite police unit that uses high tech exoskeletons to combat [...]
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