“Keijo” is a sport wherein women wearing bathing suits use naught but their breasts and buttocks in battle to push competitors over the edge of a land—a large float—and into some surrounding body of water. The sport itself is fictional ... thankfully, but the tension …Read more »
Aoharu x Machinegun starts out like Ouran High School Host Club , plus toy guns. Flat-chested tomboy Hotaru Tachibana thinks her friend was bilked by an unscrupulous host, the handsome Masamune Matsuoka. To avenge her friend, Hotaru shows up to the host club where Masamune …Read more »
After Puella Magi Madoka Magica aired, it seemed as though any magical girl television series with even a modicum of darkness was mercilessly compared to what had become "the" subversive magical girl show. I never thought it was fair to examine shows by raising them …Read more »
©Sakazaki Freddie 2014 Land of the Rising Dead is part manga and part text: a zombie survival guide with manga illustrations and strips throughout the book adding up to a full story. The manga parts star four girls, each representing a particular archetype and poking …Read more »
One of the most memorable features of the original Gangsta manga is the unique art style of writer/artist Kohske, which often feels like a mashup of the quirky designs of Natsume Ono ( House of Five Leaves ) and the gritty action of Kouta Hirano …Read more »
Gundam Wing served as many Americans' first exposure to the Gundam franchise, but it was the original 1979 series and its Universal Century (UC) timeline that started it all in Japan. With Right Stuf now releasing a string of Gundam series on home video, it's …Read more »
In 15th-century Rome, young monk, scholar, and adoptee of the Catholic church Nikola accidentally awakens a witch who was locked away centuries earlier. Once magically awakened, the witch says she is devoted to him. Intimidated by her strength but committed to doing what’s right, Nikola …Read more »
In the Tokugawa period, sardonic swordsman Manji wanders the countryside getting into fights. Thanks to a run-in with the mythological 800-year-old nun Yaobikuni, Manji is infected with symbiotic “bloodworms” that repair every injury, rendering him immortal. As penance for all the deaths he caused in …Read more »
It feels as if the latest anime based on the manga of Hellsing creator Kouta Hirano has been a long time coming, but maybe we've just been particularly thirsty for something this ridiculous. From the very first scene, Drifters is as gleefully violent and over …Read more »
Even from the very first episode of Flip Flappers there's a sense that you're watching something special. It wasn't until the third that I was completely convinced, though, as the beautifully animated fantasy took a sudden turn into a very Fist of the North Star …Read more »
In a season that includes the likes of Keijo!!!!!!!!, it's not surprising at all that we now have an anime series based on rugby. ALL OUT!! comes from the manga series by Shiori Amase, which has been running in the pages of Kodansha's Monthly Morning …Read more »
There’s something strange about Tomie. Everyone knows she’s beautiful, but no one knows what she is. Usually she appears as a young woman, but she can also take the form of a child or even a baby. As a young woman, she captivates all the …Read more »
© Nisio Isin/Kodansha Aniplex/Shaft Like all good things, even stories about undying vampires must come to an end. Almost a year to the day after the release of the first film in the trilogy, Kizumonogatari Part III: Reiketsu hit theaters January 6, wrapping up director …Read more »
There's something about school that has us all on the hunt for something greater. It's not exactly the pursuit of higher learning or anything, it's more the pursuit of anything but the same old boring classrooms. Why else would so many young adult stories involve …Read more »
I don't know what the TV show Bones is actually about, but I seriously doubt David Boreanaz has as much to say about skeletons as Sakurako Kujo. This dark-haired beauty is about as obsessed with bones as can be, such that she's completely built her …Read more »
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