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Shelf Life - City of Angels
Angels are everywhere, and they're ready to beat you down with their oddly shaped body parts.
- Honey and Clover
- Shattered Angels v.1
- Shuffle v.4
2008-06-16

Hey, Answerman!
Answerman looks back briefly on seven years of Q&A;, and then gets down to it! The worthiness of anime's "sacred cows", Metal Gear Solid's odds of becoming a decent anime series, and shocking confessions! Also: your answers to last week's Hey, Answerfans! 2008-06-13

Tweeny Witches DVD 2
It's time to let the expectations of larky fun go and accept the series for the serious, often moralistic magical girl tale that it is. It isn't always entertaining, but it isn't without its reasons to keep watching.

Switch GN 2
In the first volume of Switch, Saki and Nakamura comment wryly in the afterword that, together, they do the work of one person. After two volumes, many discriminating manga fans will surely find themselves wondering why “naked ape” didn't just do the work of no people.

Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody
... everything that Bleach fans fear and everything that Bleach fans desire from a cinematic production of the series.

Black Blood Brothers DVDs 2-3
While its defects in animation and other places prevent this from ever being considered a great vampire series, it ultimately becomes a fairly good one over its last eight episodes. Worth a look, even if early episodes disappointed you.

Welcome to the NHK DVD 4
The first of these four episodes is so blisteringly good that it inspires a very real fear that the series has already peaked, and with nearly half of it yet to come.

CLAMP Double Feature: Tsubasa and xxxHOLiC DVD
A sound purchase for that niche audience already sold on xxxHOLiC and Tsubasa, but the rest of the world, on the other hand, would do just as well not to bother.

Shuffle! DVD 3
It looks like there may be hope yet for Shuffle!, which finally starts to show signs of a deeper plot in the final episode of Volume 3.

Origin ~Spirits of the Past~ DVD
At an MSRP of $39.99, it isn't worth remembering where Origin ~Spirits of the Past~ came from. I advise you, dear reader, to pretend that it never existed in the first place.

Shin Chan DVD Season 1 Part 1 (Dub)
Funimation's pop-culture-heavy, meticulously un-PC “reversioning” of Shin Chan is doubtless the most ambitious comic redubbing of a series since ADV's Ghost Stories, and fortunately the ambition pays off.

School Rumble GN 9
Some of the laughs are worth it, but it's getting more and more frustrating to see this story going nowhere.

Alive GN 2
The mysteries of the "suicide virus" are starting to become clearer, and the story is definitely going somewhere. Unfortunately, it seems to be getting there at a frustratingly slow pace.