Fairy Tail vol. 1
Joseph LusterIf you had a chance to read our cover story on Fairy Tail in the latest issue of Otaku USA , then you probably already have a good idea of whether or not the series is for you. Heck, at this point you may be …Read more »
Reviews
Corpse Party
Dave RileyAs 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 »
Black Jack vol. 17
It's a bittersweet feeling to see Vertical Inc.'s release of Osamu Tezuka's medical thriller Black Jack finally come to an end. On one hand, I'm actually not anywhere near tired of reading his episodic exploits. B it's also really nice to see the entire run …Read more »
Gon vol. 1
"Gon smash!", "Gon chomp!" and "Gon hungry!" are about the only remotely feasible bits of dialogue I could imagine coming out of the vice-like mouth of that little orange dino, Gon. That's precisely why I'm glad he never says anything in Masashi Tanaka's manga, which …Read more »
Guardian Heroes (XBLA)
Guardian Heroes , just about the last Treasure game without a retro remake, is finally on Xbox Live Arcade. With its release I figure we’re pretty much done with companies selling our nostalgia back to us. Shut off the Virtual Console (it was limping along …Read more »
The Vault of Error: Taro the Dragon Boy
Paul Thomas ChapmanFairy tales are fearsome and cruel. Don’t let the Disney-fied versions fool you; the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen penned little morality plays that had all of the subtlety of a mace to the face and all of the delicacy of an abattoir. And …Read more »
Princess Knight vol. 1
Prince Sapphire has a unique problem: he's a she. Due to a heavenly mixup, Sapphire was born with both a boy and girl heart, but her mother must conceal this secret in order to protect the throne from the evil, opportunistic Duke Duralumin. Though he …Read more »
Giana Sisters DS
Kristina PottsTime heals all wounds. In 1987, during the height of Nintendo's iron grip on the gaming populace, a publisher by the name of Rainbow Arts released Great Giana Sisters —a blatant, shameless clone of Super Mario Bros.— for the Commodore 64 and a multitude of …Read more »
The Live-Action TEKKEN Film
Mike DentThe live-action Tekken will go down in my book as a firm reminder of how filmmakers, if not people in general, aren’t taking chances any more. The much-hyped big screen take on the popular Namco fighting game franchise had the opportunity to do something to …Read more »
No Longer Human vol. 1
Yozo Oba has been living a lie his entire life, and he's damn good at it. Far from your average teenager with easily defined emotional issues, Oba plays off everything he feels on the inside to his advantage. He is the class clown. He is …Read more »
Dark Souls
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 »
Higurashi When They Cry: Time Killing Arc 2
Danica DavidsonRika may or may not be the reincarnation of the deity Oyashiro-sama, but if she is, it doesn’t save her from a gruesome murder. At the beginning, she asks us, the reader, who will kill her. In a continuation from the story started in the …Read more »
Trigun: Badlands Rumble Blu-Ray
We originally reviewed the Madhouse-animated feature, Trigun: Badlands Rumble after its showing at Anime Expo last year. Now FUNimation has finally unleashed Vash the Stampede's latest adventure on Blu-ray and DVD, and it's a release that's certainly worthy of your hard-earned double dollars. The …Read more »
The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan #1
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 »
Black Jack vol. 16
The "Demon of Surgery" is back in Vertical Inc.'s latest volume of Black Jack and, unfortunately, there's only one more to go after this one. Don't let that get you down, though, as volume 16 packs nearly 350 pages of unlicensed surgical action into yet …Read more »