Michele DARLING
Buried
Treasure - Patlabor TV & OAVs
Despite never taking off in the West, this sci-fi sitcom was years ahead of its time, and is considered a landmark show by many.
2008-05-01
Despite never taking off in the West, this sci-
Anime
News Nina! - 04-30-08
Nina responds to some interesting reader mail.
2008-04-30
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TURN ONLY!! - Flavor of Life
RTO greets the springtime weather with reviews of Fairy Tail, Life, xxxHOLiC, an Import of the Month full of burning soul, and a Reader's Choice about eating souls! Well, sort of. 2008-04-29
RTO greets the springtime weather with reviews of Fairy Tail, Life, xxxHOLiC, an Import of the Month full of burning soul, and a Reader's Choice about eating souls! Well, sort of. 2008-04-29
Shelf Life - Funky Town
The groove is on this week as we delve into anime's murkiest daydreams and nightmares. Sometimes, you can't even tell the difference.
- Funky Forest
- Hell Girl v.5
- Kanon v.3
- Naruto s.7
2008-04-28
The groove is on this week as we delve into anime's murkiest daydreams and nightmares. Sometimes, you can't even tell the difference.
- Funky Forest
- Hell Girl v.5
- Kanon v.3
- Naruto s.7
2008-04-28
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List the qualifications the series had to pass to improve on its rocky opening—lose the embarrassing theatrics, focus on the mysteries, beef up the characterization—and you'll find that this volume does them all.
Builds suspense with masterful skill, seizing the attention at the beginning of each episode, and holding it with twisty plot developments and clever mind games until there are simply no more episodes left to watch.
Even without the glamour and spectacle of other military-
Even those who got into the series originally for the action and sexiness may still find that all of the relationship and story development in this volume makes it the best one yet.
Many will hate Kite Liberator. Its story is nonsense. It chops and splices genres in the silliest way possible. But taken as a gentle, self-
Yozakura Quartet GN 1
It has all the ingredients of greatness: distinctive characters ... action-adventure potential ... But processing those ingredients into something successful is obviously going to take more work.
It has all the ingredients of greatness: distinctive characters ... action-
Strawberry Panic! Sub.DVD 1
If you like seeing girls blushing and getting flustered over other girls (with no guys around) then this may be a series for you. Although it does improve, its merits are otherwise only barely enough to sustain it.
If you like seeing girls blushing and getting flustered over other girls (with no guys around) then this may be a series for you. Although it does improve, its merits are otherwise only barely enough to sustain it.
Monochrome Factor GN 1
This ripoff of a ripoff does such a good job of copying everything else in the supernatural genre that it's hard to tell where the imitation stops and an original story begins.
This ripoff of a ripoff does such a good job of copying everything else in the supernatural genre that it's hard to tell where the imitation stops and an original story begins.
Kitchen Princess GN 5
Yakitate Japan for girls? All right, so Kitchen Princess doesn't quite have the insane humor, but Volume 5 shows that it contains all the other essential ingredients for a great cooking series.
Yakitate Japan for girls? All right, so Kitchen Princess doesn't quite have the insane humor, but Volume 5 shows that it contains all the other essential ingredients for a great cooking series.
Kagetora GN 8
This story of a young ninja and his cute but incapable charge/student wallows in an intensive display of utterly stereotypical romantic comedy content, but looks good doing so and still manages to be mildly entertaining.
This story of a young ninja and his cute but incapable charge/
Madlax is too similar to Noir, its creative predecessor, to easily escape its shadow, but its technical, artistic, and storytelling merits are good enough to warrant a look by fans of "girls with guns" anime.