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Shelf Life - Moe Monday
Everybody's favorite moe shows get examined once again, as they either get re-released, or surface for the first time.
- Air boxset
- Air movie
- Kanon boxset
- Magical Lyrical Nanoha A's boxset
- Negima boxset
2009-04-20

Astro Toy with Rob Bricken: Dragonball Evolution
The Dragonball Evolution toys turn out to be as much of a smash success as the film was. 2009-04-19

Hey, Answerman!
Zac takes the wheel while Brian's away; this week it's booth babes, Shin Mazinger, and a flake that will probably make you question the nature of reality. 2009-04-17

NANA GN 15
NANA is first and foremost a love story—a bittersweet story of profound, abiding love between two very special women—and even after Ai Yazawa finally sees fit to end it, rest assured that it will not soon be forgotten.

Otomen GN 2
The palatable effort creator Aya Kanno is putting into being nonstop witty and silly does not fully conceal Otomen's significant flaws.

Genshiken Official Book
If Genshiken is a love letter to the otaku lifestyle, then this book is the postscript.

Lovely Complex GN 10
Against all odds, this series still manages to pull out moments of bouncy comedy and deliciously heartwarming romance—even when everything starts to look despairingly familiar.

Menkui! GN 1-3
The manga's protagonist Kotori is much too ordinary and too unmemorable a hero or lover to be the embodiment of an untranslated Japanese word "menkui." Better—or should I say worse?—to say that Suzuki Tanaka's first multi-part series itself is “menkui,” a manga of appalling stunted scope and pinched ambitions.

Bleach GN 26
This is the average shounen-action training arc done exactly by the book, and it almost runs the entire series into the ground.

Battle Angel Alita: Last Order -Angel Goes Nova GN 10
Despite getting too ridiculous for its own good and seeming to be running short on ideas, this series still kicks butt on the artistic front and still tells a solid story. Above all, it still has Alita, and she is back, front and center, where she should be.

Love Pistols GN 1-3
Perversity in one's choice of manga reading material, if Tarako Kotobuki's Love Pistols is any indication, is a habit that, enjoyed once, may well become permanently addictive.

Baccano! DVD 2
Can a series that sometimes gets tremendously gory also be tremendously fun? This one seems intent on proving that a series can be both. Its plethora of converging story threads, combined with the ongoing antics of Isaac and Miria, make watching this an involving and highly entertaining experience.

Akihabara@DEEP GN 2
Much of volume two of Akihabara@DEEP takes place in the world of a fictionalized MMORPG world, but if you think you are merely in for a hackneyed version of .hack, you are in for the surprise of your life: One of the top manga series first published in English in 2008 is getting even better.

Gedo Senki
A great entry in the epic fantasy genre and overall a pretty good movie... just don't go in expecting a Hayao movie.