Naruto vs. Angel Beats in Neo Magazine

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Genkina Hito

映画男！！！
Neo magazine is heating up spring with a new issue crammed full of reviews, news and features.



 

It’s Naruto versus Angel Beats in the battle for the publication’s cover – who wins, you decide! NEO makes the decision process easier with its dual cover; one side has Namco Bandai’s Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations game, followed by a behind the scenes interview with CyberConnect2 president Hiroshi Matsuyama. The other showcases Angel Beats, the latest series from Manga Entertainment which goes under the investigative eyes of Matt Kamen as he exposes the anime’s weird world of Purgatory as well as the franchise’s theological roots – plus there’s our exclusive character guide!


Lifestyle content includes our man in Japan, Daniel Robson, discussing one of Japan's most iconic volcanoes, Mount Fuji. Tom Smith interviews one of Japan’s biggest stadium rockers, L’Arc en Ciel, ahead of their first UK show this April. Plus cosplay (including the winner of the official Soulcalibur V UK cosplay competition, with verdicts from the judges!), fashion and our guide on how to draw manga.

There is also NEO’s exclusive breaking news piece on Manga’s latest acquisition; Blue Exorcist, and features on the latest anime releases, including: Aquarion EVOL, Bodacious Space Pirates and Mardock Scramble. And Asian film fanatics there’s an interview with Lee Myung-se (Duelist, Nowhere to Hide), and we speak with Teddy Chen, director of Bodyguards and Assassins, as he explains why it took ten years for the movie to make it from concept to production.

Plus extracts from Sengoku Basara: Samurai Legends by Yak Haibara, courtesy of Udon Entertainment and much more. NEO magazine 96 is out now at all good newsagents, WHSmith and branches of Tesco, for £4.25 – or digitally for £2.99.
Check out the <a href="http://www.neomag.co.uk/">website</a> and their <a href="http://www.facebook.com/neomagazineuk">Facebook</a> page for more info!
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as well as the franchise’s theological roots
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This persuaded me to go and read a synopsis of the show on wiki, to see if I was missing out on something good. All I can remember is a hazy jumble of SSS, limbo, NPC's, girl monster bands, a war against God, and of course a few school girls toting handguns.....I really wish some anime would stop needlessly convoluting their plots.
 
If you've not seen it, A.Beats is actually quite a lot of fun. It's not as emotional as the likes of Kanon or Clannad, but if you ignore that, its a fun watch with some emotional moments, but also some rather funny ones.
 
vashdaman said:
Thanks for the recommendation. But is it really as confusing as it sounds?
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Not really, it's actually quite a fun watch, with theology mostly involved in the theme rather than the actual characters and what's going on. The theology and bits like that that make it sound confusing actually aren't thrust too much in your face, it's basically just the setting is a version of the afterlife.

Once you've watched it you should see what I mean. It suffers slightly from being a single cour series rather than the originally planned 2 cour series, but its still a fun watch with some emotional segments, as well as some quite funny moments.
 
Me and my girlfriend marathon'd the lot in one night, at the end we were emotional wrecks. I thought it was supposed to be a full on comedy series.
 
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