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:o My word--I'm tempted to pick that NARUTO set up owed to the box-art alone.

Uppa reminisces as the screen begins to go all wavy like. I suspect I would have found the protracted fights a tad more irksome if I had been watching on a weekly basis--but given a new episode was aired each day, I found Dragonball Z's lengthy battles quite enthralling. They were certainly...

It certainly has merchandise--and, cripes, I must have been looking for a new copy of the first OVA's soundtrack for eons now--but, crucially, what exists of it was largely released when Hunter x Hunter was at its zenith in terms of popularity, often when it usually ranked highly in the...

This is what I'm getting at, here. HunterxHunter does possess strength in volume sales, but compared with Bleach or Gintama it doesn't have the vast arrays of merchandise that cement it as a series popular enough to peer them--and it is interesting to note that both Bleach and Gintama perform...

Interestingly, by that method, Slam Dunk could potentially have sold better than Dragonball in relation to how many volumes were published. Dragonball's sales est. 160,000,000 - 42 volumes Slam Dunk's sales est. 120,000,000 - 31 volumes. http://comipress.com/article/2007/05/06/1923...

I would have to say that Slam Dunk came admirably close, and I believe I've seen some polls over the years that would have you believe that Slam Dunk actually proved more popular. It wasn't quite so black and white back then, though; it's easier to judge the most popular series after late...

By the same token, mind, it's awfully hard for someone who has read up-to-date on recent Naruto chapters by way of scanlation to commit to purchasing the extensive catalogue of volumes available--not just because it's so costly, but also because they've already read it.

I've been meaning to, but--damn it all--if you could only see the look it gives me each time I try to get started. I'll hire an assassin in the morning. It's the kind thing to do.

Nishi's looking fairly well rendered, which is nice. Speaking from the heart, mind, I'd love to see a second anime adaptation instead--if only to get a glimpse of some of the later, and more impressive, Gantzers.

:D Normally I'd consider reserving any expression of mirth until a sizeable collection of reviews emerge, but I've been looking forward to this for some time now, so I'll just cheer with delight when the surrounding area becomes a bit quieter.

Part of the reason our language has changed has been owed to erroneous spellings. In 200 years, if sci-fi is legitimately spelled sy-fy, then I would deem the scenario not dissimilar to transformations that have occured since the language came to be. Heck, words like 'langage' were only...

I would like to think that this was owed, in part, to my rather expensive acquisition of myriad Toradora! imports, but entertaining such a fantasy would be a disservice to the fact that this announcement is actually real. Consequently, I'm just going to smile brightly for the rest of the day.

Two series--both from Shonen Jump--that fit your preferences pretty much exactly (though do so in ways you wouldn't quite expect) are Hikaru no Go and Whistle!. In each instance, the hero starts out weak--remarkably so--but overcomes adversity and becomes progressively stronger. And I'd...

Gantz appeals to me for the oddest of reasons. I love the tension in knowing that a character you've grown fond of can just...disappear, and that's it; I loved the antipathy between Izumi and Kurono--like a warped Goku / Vegeta relationship, and just as gripping; I love the fact that--just like...

That's true; it was still CNX by that stage. I confess that I thought it changed over to Ocean when it was beginning to fade out of its whole 'teen-adult' ethos, mind. Regarding the Ocean dub, my theory--and this would require some observation of what happened in Canada, and what episodes...

I can confirm that the Fusion saga used the FUNimation dub when CNX was around. Interestingly, when the channel reverted back to Toonami, the dub was switched to Ocean's. I actually attributed this to Toonami having stricter guidelines; FUNi's broadcast version wasn't has heavily cut as Ocean's...

Bridge Pictures! I still remember watching a rip of their Movie 9 a year or two before FUNimation released theirs! The encoder confessed during the opening sequence that the dub was so bad that he was "too ashamed to put [his] name to the video"! Ah, those days... .

Yoshihiro Togashi, unfortunately!

Readers of Super Play would've been rather familiar with the series, given the magazine's strong focus on the Japanese market, and there was a fairly reasonable bit of talk about the series in those days--I think EDGE reviewed Final Fantasy VI way back...though I believe it was scored 8/10. It...

Pertaining to Scar's Voice Actor I'm going to miss Clarke, even if his Scar reminds me--without fail--of Toguro.