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Bakemonogatari Oh my goodness, where to begin? It’s like Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez collaborated to direct a Shane Black screenplay based on a supernatural/horror story as envisioned by the creators of Phineas and Ferb. The result is a self-aware production replete with metahumour...

Bunny Drop An intriguing premise goes much further in influencing my manga purchasing decisions than the name of the writer/artist associated with the title. So a title revolving around a middle-aged man (Daikichi) adopting a little girl (Rin), amidst a sea of titles with almost interchangeable...

Say “I Love You” There are good high school romances and there are great high school romances. The good ones send you on a rollercoaster as boy/girl struggles to win the affections of girl/boy, eventually scoring a cathartic success. The great ones stick around and then ask: “Good, now what?”...

It was indeed sung by Laura Bailey. She also did a pretty good job with the translated OP and ED of Blue Gender.

Meanwhile my employers are promoting the idea of healthy living to the employees. To that end they have set up a stand in the office doling out free smoothies. The catch? We must blend them ourselves? The catch? The blender is connected to a stationary bicycle and is powered by pedaling said...

One thing that does grate me in anime is the idea that a fighter wearing an eye-patch is somehow more intimidating. This is wrong for so many reasons, chief of which is that someone with only one functioning eye will have severely compromised depth perception and reduced peripheral vision. In...

Demon King Daimao vs Majikoi Oh! Samurai Girls vs Samurai Girls So I went on something of a fan service binge and watched these three titles in rapid succession. And at least in terms of premise they are not dissimilar. The checklist for each title broadly reads as follows: • Unassuming central...

School Days This can be considered the anti-high-school-romance. It's built on a similar boy-meets-girl premise, and a number of the usual tropes are present as well, chief of which is how the male lead's stock price suddenly skyrockets when word gets out about him being attached. Usually said...

Re: Digimon Adventure Tri: 6 parts, 1st Movie out on Nov 21 If indeed a dub is in its future, then my wishes are but two: That Joshua Seth returns as Tai, and that Lara Jill Miller returns as Kari.

I'm Yakumo, and I fully endorse this sentiment. Of course it also means that I must now come up with other examples... Overrated - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex It is a fantastically produced product, don't get me wrong, but overall I found it hollow and soulless. Which is kind of...

Neon Genesis Evangelion This marks the conclusion of an endeavour spanning 17 years. It was back in 1998 when I bought the first volume of the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga. Since then I had to endure a release schedule that operated in geological time. And now having read the fourteenth and...

Sir, will you please step out of the vehicle?

Evangelion 3.33: You Can (Not) Redo It is absolutely, 100% completely delusional on my part, but I do feel that in watching this I have thwarted a conspiracy involving Funimation, Hideaki Anno, Khara and even the Japanese government, all to prevent me from doing so. And much to my surprise, I...

Oh goody! Now I can have the first twenty volumes in the GN format as well, and put all the the comic book format ones to rest. Except the two in which my letters made the letters page. The bad news is I'll still not be done collecting OMG!....

Please come with English subs...Please come with English subs...Please come with English subs... The blu-ray release of Evangelion TV series is set for a 26 August 2015 release date. I just dread the possibility of having to wait an interminable amount of time for an North American, UK, or...

Funimation's latest statement on Evangelion 3.33: "It should be out later this year." This from the latest ANNCast. Read between the line(s) and it's still nothing new: the release date is still TBD.

To hell with it, I said. I'd had enough of the waiting, the betrayal, the silent treatment and the just plain lying. No, not my family's Christmas Lunch. I'm on about Funimation and the way they've handled the (non-)release of Eva 3.33. I decided to dig the heels in and import the Hong Kong...

Oh My Goddess, vol 46 I can remember back in 1997 when I started reading Oh My Goddess, I had this question in the back of my head. How would the introduction between Belldandy's father ("God" by any other name) and Keiichi play out? Here we find out. It's nice to see OMG moving along with...

John Wick Pure distilled essence of action movie. That's what we have here. It's a revenge tale dressed up as an urban western. It's efficiency brought to 2.35:1 widescreen life. Characters talk only when they must; mostly a pause, or even a shift of a gaze, tells the viewers what they need to...

Preparation on my part has begun for a quadruple dip for Evangelion. I've owned this series on VHS, the first DVD release by ADV and also the Platinum range DVD collection. So a blu-ray purchase is a statistical certainty. I do however have concerns over who will get this license. For the US...