ASCII Media Works’ monthly online seinen magazine Dengeki Comic Japan announced on Monday that creator Tohru Fujisawa (GTO) and artist Takashi Sano (Iketeru Futari) will launch a new manga series called Black Sweep Sisters on August 25. The “thrilling dark action” manga centers around two dissimilar (“one large-breasted, the other small-breasted”) sisters who are exorcists for rising evil spirits. The [...]
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Sometimes you don’t want a filet mignon, Goshusho-sama Ninomiya-kun understands. There are times when you just want to see a well animated, fast paced pile of contrived situations marked as ìplot devices.î Sure, the refined critic might complain about a plot centric on a female succubus who is afraid of men, and the disinterested boy [...]
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Hero Tales starts with the kind of climactic, apocalyptic battle normally reserved for the final battle in a tv series or movie. But we’re just getting started… You see, because even though the protagonist immediately faces off against the chief baddie, he gets his ass kicked. Badly. So, he needs to spend part of the [...]
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So, what were you up to thirty years ago today? If the statistical breakdown of anime viewers is to be believed, a small majority of you weren’t actually around yet. That’s okay, you’ll still find this little exercise interesting. The rest of you guys, the over-30 gang, were probably in a situation similar to mine: [...]
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The stage has now been set for the first ever all-civilian finals for the Z.O.T. tournament! At stake is no less than the future of the Scrapyard and Tiphares, a reality hardly lost on the denizens of both Earthbound locales and on other figures that Alita has encountered over time. Things are hardly uneventful in [...]
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Teenager Kakeru Satsuki is abnormal in more ways than one. He wears an eye patch over his right eye because it a disturbing golden color which got him teased extensively in the past, his sister committed suicide in his presence several years earlier, and he was raised in an orphanage. More typically, he is close [...]
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I was always amazed at how the Ghost In The Shell franchise took off despite what I consider to be a mediocre first film. Mamoru Oshii’s opening look into that cybertech world resonated with folks despite its ponderous philosophizing and limited action, and I’m glad it did; I’m a fan of the second entry in the [...]
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In the summer of 2010, the direct-to-video action exploitation flicks of the 1980s made a comeback in theatres with The Expendables. Critics were harsh on it, calling the plot predictable and the dialogue execrable…even though it delivered on the promised action. Moviegoers expecting a high-class thrill ride were disappointed. But anybody who wanted to see explosions, [...]
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It’s easier to confront controversy from a distance. A couple months ago, at the beginning of 2011, there was a lot of shock and awe surrounding the Blu-Ray only release of The Garden Of Sinners. A 7-film cycle, the box set had a suggested price of $600 and an actual storefront price of roughly $400. For [...]
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Looking at the character design emblazoned on the DVD itself, I immediately guessed (judging from her tremendous and impossible chest proportions), that this TV series would be about one thing and one thing only: fan service. And right I was; as she managed to get herself naked, or nearly so, about a dozen times in [...]
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