Vandread is set up along the rather amusing premise of two planets; one populated entirely by males and the other entirely by females, warring with each other in space. The culture of each planet has developed to abhor the opposing gender, and the show opens …Read more »
"HAND ROLL! ROLL, ROLL, ROLL, ROLL POOPY!" "Ah-ha-ha-ha! That'd disgusting. They roll their sh** up with their hands?" "THAT'S RIGHT! WITH A THREE-STAGE PROCESS THAT'S #1 IN THE POOPY WORLD!" "Woah, elegant." "ISN'T IT?" IN A WORLD where every fighting manga endeavors to give kids …Read more »
Stardate: some made up space number that doesn't mean anything. I find myself seated behind some sort of strange alien artillery. When prompted, it fires large mutli-colored bubbles against an even larger cluster of bubbles, bursting them in a chain when three or more make …Read more »
"Wait," you say, "is this a shojo review from the guy that's normally waxing poetic over dudes beating each other up and other such manly manga madness?" Yes, it is; everyone needs a change of pace from time to time, okay? Now that the ever-so-suspect …Read more »
Novelty can be such a wonderful thing -- if every anime were a musical, we wouldn't care quite as much about this goofy show. Nerima Daikon Brothers is the crazy and at (most) times inappropriate tale of a family daikon farming operation with aspirations to …Read more »
Black Jack can do anything he wants. Money isn't an issue, and there's hardly such a thing as going too far to teach the kinds of lessons he deems important. Take the case of one Mr. Ichigahara, for instance. Formerly involved in the disposal of …Read more »
Remember when we combined with mega-mac Japanese gaming mag Weekly Famitsu to ask you, the people, what tickles your fancy as American otaku? Well, 800 stepped up to the Foreign Otaku challenge, and the results of our readership poll were just published in the September …Read more »
Katsuhiro Otomo has always had it kind of rough. That's not to say he's living a transient life on the skids, but there aren't many other creators out there standing in the booming shadow of a single piece of work (or, in his case, two …Read more »
Before I got the opportunity to dig into Bayonetta myself, we were shown some of the later stages, starting with the wild weaponry that becomes available down the road. After a cutscene that showed off Bayonetta's ability to exist across multiple planes (and how that …Read more »
Photos by Daniel Eggert "Is it love that makes my heart go BOOM BOOM BOOM?" Nope, not this time (but props if you get the reference) -- it's the "sensational kawaii," Harajuku stylings of 6%DOKIDOKI, available live in the states for a limited time only …Read more »
It's a pretty good time to be a fan of gaming both new and old. The proliferation of downloadable titles has proven to be a rich soil for the resurgence of classics with less invested risk, giving us those dream sequels that would have been …Read more »
I had always hoped and dreamed that North America would receive a Starfy game if we wished on enough…stars. This was because I wasn't really sure what it was, other than a cute 2-D "marine platformer" where, yes, every level is at least part water …Read more »
At Anime Expo this year, one of the surprise guests accompanying Morning Musume on their historic first trip to America was none other than Hitomi Yoshizawa, the last group leader of MM before the current one, Ai Takahashi. Yoshizawa was a member of the 4th …Read more »
Welcome to Wakaba-soh publisher: Yen Press story and art: Chaco Abeno rating: 16+ Kentarou, a short 15-year-old, is in love with Karen, a prim-and- proper girl from a rich family. His mind is blown when he discovers that Karen is taking a year off of …Read more »
My background is in creative writing, and as a critic it's my job to entertain and inform my readers. Over the span of my career, I've had the opportunity to review a variety of products, from books to video games to movies. Each time I …Read more »
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