Mariya CHERNYAK

The X Button - Vice Versus
This week: a divisive review of Marvel vs. Capcom 3! Plus Sega's Chaos Code, Cave's Nin2 Jump, and an excuse to talk about Xenogears. 2011-02-23

Anime News Nina! - 2011-02-23
...and yet another new challenger appears! 2011-02-23

Brain Diving - The Filth and the Furi
FLCL is finally back out on DVD this week, so Brian takes a crack at the series' novelization. Read on, shooting star! 2011-02-22

Shelf Life - Spring Awakening
Erin dives into more One Piece, and expresses her patriotic love for gangly-legged men.
- Full Metal Panic complete
- One Piece s3 pt5
- Tsubasa OVA collection
2011-02-21

7 Billion Needles GN 3
What makes 7 Billion Needles so great is that it can be enjoyed on different levels. It succeeds outwardly as a tale of epic alien warfare, but there is also a thought-provoking layer underneath.

Beelzebub Episodes 1-6 Streaming
There is much to be said for a series that just wants you to have fun. That's Beelzebub. Screw substance, it says. Let's party! And what a party it is.

My-Otome 0 ~S.ifr~ Sub.DVD
Though it suffers from a rushed, ill-defined plot and weaker character development, this three-episode prequel to My-Otome is still a must-have title for fans of the franchise. It delivers all of the action, flash, and fan service one has come to expect from its predecessors.

Spice & Wolf Novel 3
Lawrence faces entirely different kinds of relationship and economics troubles as he is challenged to a merchant's duel, with Holo at stake, in a fresher story free of true action but no less effectively tense. If you liked the earlier novels, you'll like this one, too

Gosick Episodes 1-6 Streaming
Knows what any good Sherlock Holmes fan knows: the heart of the story isn't its mystery; it's Holmes and Watson. That holds true even if your Holmes is a little girl and your Watson a long-suffering Japanese teen.

AiON GN 2
Which is worse: a series that was mediocre to start with, or one that lapses into mediocrity after a promising start? The second volume of AiON may help to answer that question.

Koihime Muso DVD
This anachronistic, gender-flipped take on Romance of the Three Kingdoms is primarily an exercise in pure otakucentric fare, one which runs sexy and/or moe girls through a gantlet composed mainly of comical adventures and fan service situations. It can be fun if you don't expect much of it.

Cross Game Episodes 26-38 Streaming
Increases the baseball quotient and meddles most interestingly in the main relationships. Nothing complicated, but as anyone who's followed the series can tell you, simple doesn't have to mean simplistic.

Mitsudomoe Zōryōchū! Episodes 1-4 Streaming
Zōryōchū's dilemma can be summed up very simply: Mitsudomoe was all kinds of funny; Zōryōchū is fewer kinds of funny. That's a big problem.

Kara no Kyoukai - the Garden of sinners
Understanding what Type-Moon and ufotable have constructed after 9 hours of film is far more satisfying than the experience of actually sitting through it. A bizarre, brutal creation, something that is infinitely better in hindsight than it is in the moment.

Hellsing OAV DVD 1
It's been a long wait, Hellsing fans, but the adaptation you've been waiting for is finally here.