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• Anime Review: School Rumble, Volume One

  Published: August 30, 2007, 8:57 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Anime Ovas

  High school seems so very long ago. All the cliques, back stabbing, love triangles, and hormone-driven bad decisions might have happened to someone else, in another place in another time. Unfortunately, they did happen, they happened to me and they will happen to most teenagers in the process of “growing up”. Bad, [...]

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• Anime Review: Ayakashi, Samurai Horror Tales - Yotsuya Ghost Story

  Published: August 22, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Anime Series

  You know who does horror best? The Japanese. Why? Because, in my viewing experience, they don’t use excessive gore as a plot vehicle/ filler. Most Japanese horror relies on what we don’t see, but can guess at, and the twists, turns and fears contained in the human mind to scare [...]

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• Anime Review: Black Lagoon, Volume 1

  Published: September 4, 2007, 9:20 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Anime Series

  Rachel and I recently watched Black Lagoon, Volume 1. Geneon promoted Black Lagoon pretty well at Anime Central and Anime Expo this year. I think it’s a pretty big release for them - next to Hellsing in terms of being the ‘next big thing‘. That means the show has some pretty big boots to fill. [...]

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• Anime Review: Red Garden, Volume One

  Published: September 10, 2007, 9:53 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Anime Series

  New ideas these days, seem hard to come by. Everything from fashion to food is recycling and revamping ideas from an earlier time. All one would have to do to be “in” 20 years from now would be to stow away their clothing and haul it out again when the fashion “gurus” declare old is [...]

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• Anime Review: Xenosaga: The Animation, Volume One

  Published: September 18, 2007, 8:45 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Anime Series

  It’s been a few months since a sci-fi anime has gotten my undivided attention. Ergo Proxy was the last sci-fi anime that I devoted actual time to. Everything else out there is either too jiggly, too lame, too tongue-in-cheek, or poorly executed. Not just that, but one of my other fave sci-fi genres the [...]

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• Reader Review: Evangelion Shin Gekij ban: Jo

  Published: September 22, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews

  Evangelion Shin Gekij ban: Jo premiered in Japan recently and one of our readers -Rodney - has seen it! Here’s what Rodney had to say: I saw it last night in Osaka, and I've gotta say, it seem pretty frickin' good. No spoilers, not that that's really a possibility in this case. I remember being appalled by the [...]

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• Anime Review: Welcome to the N.H.K., Volume One

  Published: October 1, 2007, 7:44 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews

  It’s not often in anime that a series tackles something as serious as a social disorder-yes, anime can handle actual social issues when it wants to. It happens even less that a series which does so is entertaining in some fashion and yet still address the main issue without being preachy about it. In [...]

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• Anime Review: Witchblade, Volume One

  Published: October 8, 2007, 8:36 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Anime Series, Anime Reviews, Gonzo, Witchblade Anime, Witchblade Anime Review, Witchblade Review, Witchblade The Anime, Witchblade The Anime Volume One, Witchblade The Anime Volume One Review, Witchblade Volume One Anime

  point? Is this an action anime or a borderline hentai anime? A sci-fi anime or a fanservice anime? The studios seem to be promoting the latter with enough innuendo in their marketing to set Hugh Hefner’s eyebrows on fire: Penetrating the body and soul of a new female vessel: Imbuing the heir with insatiable lust and unthinkable power-

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• Anime Review: Glass Fleet, Volume One

  Published: October 10, 2007, 9:06 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Anime Reviews, Garasu No Kantai, Glass Fleet, Glass Fleet Volume One, Glass Fleet Volume One Review, Gonzo, La Legende Du Vent De L Univers Glass Fleet Review, The Legend Of The Wind Of The Universe

  when you watch certain anime? Does it seem as if the anime is saying, “Thou hast sinned; now I divulge your punishment unto you a la Clockwork Orange,”? Or do you ever watch an anime as a means of atonement: “Oh lord, I didn’t mean to blow that red light! I’ll watch three episodes of Trinity Blood to achieve

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• Anime Film Review: Tekkon Kinkreet

  Published: October 18, 2007, 8:33 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Movies Anime, Reviews, Black White, Kuro, Manga, Shiro, Tekkon Kinkreet, Tekkon Kinkreet Review

  On the contrary, most of the anime that’s referred to in this manner is quite ordinary and mundane, and sometimes, plain bad. Obviously the whole thing is subjective, but one gets turned off after hearing these terms used gratuitously and erroneously in describing an average anime. Tekkon Kinkreet, however, is one of the few anime

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• Anime REview: Black Lagoon, Volume 2

  Published: October 21, 2007, 9:44 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Anime Action, Anime Review, Black Lagoon, Revy

  I just finished watching Geneon's Black Lagoon volume two. Earlier, I compared the series to the 80's television show The A-Team'. I'm revising that comparison after finishing this volume. It's here that the show moves a little bit away from action and starts to find its heart. The good news is that there’s still lots of action. There are

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• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex- The Laughing Man

  Published: October 22, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Movies Anime, Bato, Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex Laughing Man Mo, Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex Movie, Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex Movie Review, Gist Sac Movie, Gist Sac, Gits, Laughng Man, Majoe Motoko, Stand Alone Compl

  speculative sci-fi anime series ever, and adds another movie to its franchise this year with the release of Laughing Man. Ghost in the Shell has been around, in one form or another, for quite some time. In 1991, Masamune Shirow released the GitS manga. Then followed two anime movies: Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2:

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• Anime Review: Karas: The Revelation

  Published: October 25, 2007, 8:51 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Eko, Karas, Karas 2, Karas Review, Karas The Revelation, Karas The Revelation Review, Otoha, Yurine

  epic story in this medium, anime, in only six episodes; it’s even harder to do it well. Karas is a six episode anime series which strove to tell an age old story of the battle between good and evil and the consequences which happen when the balance between the two is off. Karas not only tried to convey this message, it attempted to cram

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• Anime Review: Pumpkin Scissors, Volume One

  Published: November 1, 2007, 8:33 am

  Tags: Anime, Anime Reviews, Series, Anime Review, Halloween, Pumpkin Scissors

  take that idea. Usually, anime that’s ill- planned is transparent and shallow. At this early stage I can’t tell if the series is shallow, but so far, it’s not too transparent. Development, for both story and characters, is happening at the sub-atomic anime level, but is very much there. The pacing and the development are

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• Anime Review: Devil May Cry, Full Series

  Published: November 12, 2007, 7:41 am

  Tags: Anime Reviews, Anime, Anime Review, Anime Reviews, Dante, Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry Anime Series, Devil May Cry Animiew, Devil May Cry Review, Devil May Cry Series, Dmc, Dmc Anime, Dmc Anime Review, Dmc Anime Series, Dmc Series, E Revdevil May Cry Anime, Lady, Madhouse

  video games from which this anime is derived, each individually had more plot than the entire anime. Instead of getting a well plotted, intelligently paced anime, which could have fleshed out everyone’s fave devil hunter, fans were handed, well, fanservice. We not only get to see Dante kicking demon ass, but we also get to see Trish and

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