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
Genshiken Official Book If Genshiken is a love letter to the otaku lifestyle, then this book is the postscript. 2009-04-16
The X Button - Machine Music Todd gazes upon tri-Ace's End of Eternity, Dream C Club, the latest and possibly last Guilty Gear XX upgrade, a Bastard!! game, and all sorts of heavy-metal references. 2009-04-15
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. 2009-04-13
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.
Gantz DVD 7 Those not bothered by heavy graphic content should find this four episode second-season opener to be a sharp-looking, well-acted volume which continues both the promise and problems posed by previous volumes. If you liked earlier installments then you'll definitely like this one.