Is Black Jack a hero, a sly opportunist, or just a straight up dick? After 13 volumes of his varied exploits the answer remains murky, with a slight lean toward "all of the above." Part of Black Jack's very nature is the fact that his …Read more »
Lots of boys have teddy bears. But Shunpei Closer’s teddy bear smokes cigars and wields a chainsaw. And he’s not very cuddly. Shunpei used to be close to his grandfather, whom he believed was an archeologist. Well, it turns out that his grandfather was actually, …Read more »
At the time of this writing ( 2010, technically - ed ), a three-year-old doujin soft game, newly translated into English, is in the top sellers list on Steam. Is it a sign that otaku are sweeping the nation’s PC game download services? Perhaps, but …Read more »
Mikito’s biggest problem used to be the fact he got bullied. Now his biggest problem is the fact he’s turning into an ogre. Yikes. He never wanted this fate. But after having a mysterious dream with a creature called “Zakuro,” his life changed. Now human …Read more »
Rakuichi Nagahama was the talk of the town when he was younger because he was such an outstanding soccer player. Even as an elementary school student he had amazing prowess on the field. He ended up going to Italy (people assume he was given a …Read more »
In Eastern spirituality, the third eye is a gateway to higher consciousness and the pinpoint of the sixth chakra. In The Third: The Girl With the Blue Eye , it’s all that and more. After the world is devastated by war, humankind finds itself ruled …Read more »
Utsuho is a dirty rotten liar. It’s tough getting the truth out of him, since he prefers lies and fabrications to honesty. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. He used to be a very honest kid. One day some people came and …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 »
The die is cast! There's no going back now! The GANTZ premiere event is LIVE! This may read like delirious fan fiction now, I but I swear it actually happened… When last we left off at the GANTZ premiere, I was in the V.I.P. …Read more »
A glance at the cover of Chōhei Kambayashi's Yukikaze —with its heavily armed airplane and fluorescent speed lines—might give the impression that this is a tale of a man and his plane, and their adventures gallivanting across the skies. Happily, Yukikaze is not another high-octane …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 »
Times sure have changed. Thanks to Dragon Ball Z 's unrelenting popularity, we now get pretty much every single DBZ -related game in North America rather than none. The upside to this is that the games are much better nowadays than they were …Read more »
Mikito Sakurai is a high school student who can’t get a break. He’s mercilessly bullied at school and doesn’t even get support at home. There’s a girl he likes named Saki, but even she’s getting fed up with him for not even trying to fight …Read more »
There are different kinds of geeks. There are computer geeks, science geeks, book geeks (that’s me), and then there are full-out fujoshi otaku geeks. That’s how Yuiko could be described. Taiga is a college student and has fallen in love with Yuiko, only for her …Read more »
Things seem to be going a little better for the young otaku Milton as we enter volume 3, the last leg of Felipe Smith's consistently bold Peepo Choo . His views of Japan forever altered, he begins to transition from the "anger" stage into his …Read more »
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