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Happy December! Hard to believe it but here it is, the last month of 2012. What wonders await us in these final four weeks? Whatever they are, and whatever snow you may need to shovel through to reach them, week one is off to a …Read more »
Viz Media originally made the announcement that the weekly digital Shonen Jump Alpha manga anthology would be going simultaneous with Japan back around New York Comic-Con. At the time, there wasn't a start date provided for the exciting shift, but now it's been narrowed down …Read more »
Remember last week when I said we'd be seeing some bigger release numbers when November hit? Well it's November now so prepare for the goodies! Over two dozen new volumes of manga are out this week... or is it actually closer to fifty?! Read on …Read more »
As usual, some licensing went down at this past weekend's New York Comic Con, and FUNimation came out with a couple of enticing new additions to its anime lineup. Chief among them is Toriko , the anime adaptation of Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro's gourmet hunting Shonen Jump …Read more »
It's a week of omnibus collections and Seven Seas is paving the path! The list may seem small but the page count is high in this week's assortment of purchasable pleasures. Seven Seas' first title is Dance in the Vampire Bund (Vol.13), is the only …Read more »
Is it really September already? 2012 is moving fast! And you know what this means, back to school! Whether you yourself are back in class today, or just watching the students return, it's always a great time to have a good book handy to help …Read more »
Any week with a new CLAMP title is a good week by my standards, even for Gate 7 which has fallen a bit beneath my expectations. The story's kind of a mess in that it hasn’t really framed itself an actual linear plot yet, but …Read more »
Grab your book bags and clear off some shelf space, this week's On The Shelf is going to be a long one because this week's shipping list is a thing of bookaholic beauty. Over 25 volumes of new manga courtesy of Kodansha Comics, Seven Seas, …Read more »
Shonen Jump Alpha , Viz Media's digital home for everyone's weekly Shonen Jump manga fix, is continuing to add incentives for new readers to hop aboard. Previously you kind of had to be knee-deep in long-running series like Naruto , One Piece , Bleach , …Read more »
Recently Japan's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine launched a mysterious "D" countdown site , and despite the fact that there's still time on the clock, early news reveals that a new Dragon Ball film is in development, with the announcement appearing in the next issue of …Read more »
Ranma ½ used to mean something. It was a cornerstone of my early anime fandom, a show that hearkened back to an age long before high-speed Internet and digital distribution, before even the rise and decline of the DVD. It was an example of what …Read more »
A little over a decade ago, everyone was trading fansubs of Kimagure Orange Road . In 2002, I borrowed a milk crate of VHS tapes from a friend and watched my way through the 1987-1988 TV series, followed by Kimagure Orange Road: The Movie . …Read more »
The next film from ever-prolific director Takashi Miike ( Audition , 13 Assassins , Ichi the Killer , the list goes on…) is an adaptation of the '70s shonen romance manga Ai to Motoko . The film version, For Love's Sake , has been promoted …Read more »
I really enjoy having a subscription to Shonen Jump Alpha , but I won't lie and say I keep it going for anything other than One Piece . Sure, I've read series like Naruto and Bleach in the past, and I plan to catch up …Read more »
With the second Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple OVA episode hitting Japanese stores bundled with the manga's 47th volume on June 18th, the official Weekly Shonen Sunday website put up another extensive preview clip. Most of the show's original cast returns for the OVA, with the …Read more »
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