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Sometimes the only response to the existence of something stupefying is to shrug your shoulders and say: “Hey, it was the Eighties.” This phrase could be the mantra of Battle Royal High School , not to be confused with Battle Royale , the book by …Read more »
Anime has a long and proud history of gender-bending and stereotype challenging, be it for comedic purposes or awkward romantic entanglements. But there is a through-line of three girls in particular who don’t just mirror each other, but directly inspired each other’s creation. One was …Read more »
In the toyetic, merchandise-run world of tokusatsu, it’s hard to shake the feeling that it’s all just crass commercialism designed to sucker kids, big and small, into wanting some gimmicky piece of plastic. Enter Keita Amemiya. A visionary in a genre dominated by toy sales, …Read more »
Michael Sinterniklaas is no stranger to the world of voice acting. Founder of New York-based recording studio NYAV Post, Sinterniklaas is well-known not just as the voice of American cartoon characters like Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) and Dean Venture in …Read more »
You can say Dark Souls is “hard,” the whole Internet has, but let’s not stop there. Let’s call Dark Souls particular. Let’s call it fussy. It requires patience. Sometimes it requires too much patience: it’s ponderous. Sometimes calling it ponderous is giving it too much …Read more »
Crows Zero II is but part of the Crows x Worst universe of tough-guy delinquent fight manga, a footnote to a sprawling high school soap opera of rivalries, beatdowns, and true bro-dom. I’m not too proud to say that I was lost. Luckily for me, …Read more »
It's kind of interesting to look at the variety of high fantasy anime out there. Considering that the whole high fantasy deal is usually a very, very western affair, you'd think that the stuff from Japan would tend to be obviously Japanese, or at least …Read more »
The first volume of Dragon Ball Z Kai ended as a cliffhanger, with Goku and Vegeta decking it out. The second volume, which contains thirteen episodes, gets right into the action. Though this is supposed to be Dragon Ball Z without the filler, there’s …Read more »
Not to say it’s exactly all the rage with the kids these days ( Hetalia’s over that way), but in the last couple years Japanese (or riichi, or reach) mahjong has become a very small trend in the Western otaku culture. If you’ve watched Nobuyuki …Read more »
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Good news for fans of Mazinkaiser , and giant robot enthusiasts in general, comes out of the June issue of Hobby Japan . The magazine announced the return of the completely badass spin-off to Go Nagai's legendary Mazinger Z . Details are currently about as …Read more »
As a purveyor of shonen and seinen-style anime, it’s obvious when you stumble upon a series that is top notch. While these series are made for boys and young men, the mark of an exceptional shonen anime rests in the studios’ ability to draw an …Read more »
You're excited, I'm excited, we're ALL excited for Hokuto Musou . And who could blame us for wanting the power to beat up countless punks as the roving badass Kenshiro? We've talked about the game here before, and even featured a little piece about it …Read more »
In the latest volume of Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack , the good doctor goes above and beyond the call of duty many times to show that he's just about the coolest manga character there is. He takes rabid dog-bites to the arm to prove a …Read more »
How many times have you started reading a new series only to wish that the annoying, precotious schoolgirl protagonist would just get violently decapitated within the first few pages? In Jack Frost , your wish is finally granted! And that's not all, she actually stays …Read more »
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