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Sometimes it’s fun seeing an old friend get a new look to appeal to a new crowd while retaining what made her special in the first place. Such is the case in the newest American release of the Dirty Pair OVA series. Some of my …Read more »
Let’s get one thing out of the way: I frankly don’t know much about K-On! and have minimal emotional attachment to the antics of the five members making up the Hokago Tea Time. I can already foresee some furious fan, clattering away at their keyboard …Read more »
As someone who suffers the odd Bloody Mary nightmare, Corpse Party ’s opening scene holds an immediate resonance. A chanting ritual deposits a group of fun loving high school students in a collapsing school created by the psychic suffering of four murdered children. There is …Read more »
Haruhi of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is pretty wacky. Haruhi-chan of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan is even wackier. For fans of the oddball and moe antics of the original series, this parody is sure to please. Often written in the form of four …Read more »
What do you do if your girlfriend’s a geek? And not just any kind of geek—a fujoshi geek? If you’re Pentabu, you write a blog about it. My Girlfriend’s a Geek is a manga series, but it’s also a novel series. Both are released by …Read more »
Let us journey backwards through the misty veils of time to a far off, foreign place: the demon-plagued realms of Japan during the Sengoku Period, where the samurai prey upon the peasants, the ninja prey upon the samurai, and demons and devils prey upon everyone. …Read more »
Poor Nanako. She failed her college entrance exam, and now she’s a prep school student trying to get her life on the right track. And she dresses up as a fake maid for a maid café to pay for her school expenses. The usual stuff. …Read more »
With glimpses into Japanese subculture mostly supplied by the likes of Genshiken and the future of Japan given pessimistic overtones in Eden of the East —not to mention the countless headlines in the news at home and abroad of Japan's shrinking birthrate, debt-ridden economy and …Read more »
Yui plays guitar. Mio plays bass. Ritsu plays drums. Tsumugi plays keyboard. They’re the members of the pop music club and they’re not very good. Despite this, Azusa wants to join the pop music club. She actually thinks they’re “really advanced and hardcore.” I don’t …Read more »
Much like Macross helped define anime of the early '80s and Evangelion is the poster boy for mid/late 1990s anime, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is one of the medium's touchstones of the present day. The series and its titular villain burst onto the scene in …Read more »
"What are you doing here? Sightseeing?" "I'm here to see the Pedestrian Paradise re-opening." "Oh, it's just the street closed off, it's gonna be pretty boring. Why not come with me instead?" She had just passed me a flyer for one of those maid escort …Read more »
Those obnoxious aliens! The cast of Urusei Yatsura Don’t act surprised. You knew it in your heart of hearts it would happen. The calendar on the wall may claim that the year is 2011, but the truth is much, much stranger. Arale-chan from Dr. Slump. …Read more »
Mio is thinking about joining the literature club. Silly girl. She’s going to be forced into the pop music club. Unfortunately, the pop music club is about to be disbanded. That means it must be rescued! Four members are needed and soon Yui, Mio, Ritsu …Read more »
There is a small, albeit significant, minority of anime fans out there for whom the feature film Redline encapsulates the spirit of what they wished most anime produced was like. I consider myself one of them, which is why it’s that much more crushing that …Read more »
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