If Deadman Wonderland had been executed in the style of almost any other anime out there, it would take about four episodes to get to the point they're at by the end of the second. To say the show is briskly paced would be an …Read more »
Taiga loves his girlfriend, Yuiko. He’s also terrified of her. She won’t abuse him or hurt him physically, but she will drag him down into her twisted geek culture, and it’s a lot of fun to watch. This volume starts with Taiga when he gets …Read more »
Getting to the end of the third volume of Nobuaki Tadano's 7 Billion Needles was another "damnit!" moment typical of the series, making the wait for the conclusion that much more unbearable. Well, it's finally here, and for the most part it does a commendable …Read more »
At the beginning of the Demon Exposing Arc , Natsumi is a nice, normal girl who lives with her mother, father and grandmother. By the end the family is filled with horror and not everyone is still alive. Natsumi is having a good day at …Read more »
It's extremely difficult to look at Monster Tale as anything but the direct successor to the half-platformer, half-puzzler, Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure . To be fair, the creators didn't make it easy for us by leaving Electronic Arts after that project to develop …Read more »
Shojo manga is known to sometimes take on gender bending ideas, and Ai Ore! is another example of this. Mizuki is a girl who looks like a boy and Akira is a boy who looks like a girl, and the two of them end up …Read more »
Perhaps you've had a long day at work. Perhaps your landlord does not permit pets. Perhaps your parents never bought you that Tamagotchi you wanted when you were 10. For the sake of argument, let's say you also missed out on the first round of …Read more »
Rikuo Nura has a very special grandfather. His grandfather is Nurarihyon, the Lord of Pandemonium, the supreme commander of yokai. That ought to sound good on a résumé. Rikuo is only one-fourth yokai. At the beginning of this volume, he’s ready to brag to his …Read more »
Yui plays guitar. Mio plays bass. Ritsu plays drums. Tsumugi plays keyboard. They’re the members of the pop music club and they’re not very good. Despite this, Azusa wants to join the pop music club. She actually thinks they’re “really advanced and hardcore.” I don’t …Read more »
Here's a fun game to play: Present someone with an especially innocent-sounding synopsis of Usamaru Furuya's Lychee Light Club . It's surprisingly easy, and just as surprisingly entertaining. Here goes: Lychee Light Club centers on a group of friends from an all-boys school. Together they …Read more »
Kei has been dumped by her girlfriend and is devastated. Unfortunately, her mother isn’t even sympathetic. All her flighty mother wants Kei to do is stop chasing girls and marry a rich man. Kei asks if she can transfer to an all-girls high school, thinking …Read more »
Flashing back to Pilotwings 64 seemed like a great way to kick off the 3DS experience. But wait, remember when the Nintendo 64 was considered 3D graphics? How will we ever learn to distinguish sooo late 20th century vs. eye-popping? I'll just go ahead and …Read more »
Takashi and Rei, his childhood crush, have escaped their zombie-infested high school and are riding off on a stolen motorcycle. Takashi worries about being pulled over, which goes to show that sometimes characters in horror stories just don’t always think through things. The police—if there …Read more »
It's kind of interesting to look at the variety of high fantasy anime out there. Considering that the whole high fantasy deal is usually a very, very western affair, you'd think that the stuff from Japan would tend to be obviously Japanese, or at least …Read more »
You know what game is awesome? Bust-A-Move . It's awesome even though Bust-A-Move Universe is the 25th game in the (spin-off!) series that has been going since 1994. That fact is lucky, because honestly, being my most anticipated game in the 3DS launch line-up comes …Read more »
Joseph Luster
Danica Davidson
Emily Balistrieri
Mike Toole