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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 [...]
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 [...]
Well, you know, I really gotta hand it to them. They tried. And they did something I thought couldn’t be done. They managed to combine every trope in anime and it becomes, not a genre-busting moment as it was in the outrageously brilliant ‘Project A-ko’, but almost a death-scream for anime itself. Taking place in [...]
Growing up, and going to school are normal things, bullying and ostracized are really not what anyone would want happened, though it happens. An undisclosed number of children commit suicide in Japan, due to the factor of unable to cope with bullying at school. Japan is well known for being a cohesive group, and has [...]
No, we’re not talking about Benson from Soap (who wound up getting his own series as a spinoff). Taking place in Victorian England, Ciel Phantomhive is a twelve-year-old orphan who now rules one of the most powerful houses in the country. But Bruce Wayne he is not. Although it sounds like the set up for [...]
I have seen the future and it is Summer Wars. A powerful, mind-blowing film, this film is both a richly detailed, touching story full of enjoyment and also a stern warning; that we depend too much on the interlinked technologies that we have developed. As Facebook brings us all together, it only takes one mistake [...]
The media-distribution website Crunchyroll is currently streaming “episode 12.5″ of the winter 2010 anime series Durarara!!, based on Baccano! author Ryohgo Narita’s light novel series. While Crunchyroll simulcasted the television anime, episode 12.5 was originally a DVD extra, released on the series’ seventh volume in August. Episode 12.5 of Durarara!! is titled “Heaven’s Vengeance” and [...]
Oh no…not again. I can’t tell you how many times that phrase ran through my head as I watched Villgust. You have to give some leniency to old anime; it’s always possible that when you see a cliche play out, it might be the first time it happened. This is particularly true when watching a [...]
Sitcoms rarely feature character development. A half-hour devoted to comedy rarely has enough time to give its characters room to grow. More importantly, it makes it difficult to put into syndication once the show is over. When you tune into a random episode, you want to be able to follow what’s going on without too [...]
Character designer Yun Kouga is celebrating the September 18 opening of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: A wakening of the Trailblazer by putting the movie’s characters in her own Loveless manga. The cameo appears in the November issue of Ichijinsha’s Monthly Comic Zero-Sum magazine, which shipped on Tuesday. In the current chapter of Loveless, [...]