Shelf Life - Road to El Cazador Girls with guns on the beach are all Erin needs this week.
- Clannad ~After Story~ part 2
- El Cazador De La Bruja pt 1
- Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino OVA
2010-01-11
To Love Ru DVD part 1 Yeah, this series about a girl-shy young man getting unintentionally betrothed to a sexy alien princess is unabashedly trashy, but it does exactly what it intends to do: deliver a lot of fan service and a good number of effective laughs. That makes any arguments about how lowbrow or retread it is largely irrelevant. 2010-01-11
Hey, Answerman! Brian's force and fury are downright palpable this week, as he tangles and tussles with a trio of questions about the "defining" anime of the decade, icky "guro" manga, and music rights. A new Flake of the Week plus Hey, Answerfans rounds it all out, and it's another edition of Hey, Answerman! 2010-01-08
ANNCast - FUNi People Two dudes from FUNimation, Adam Sheehan and Lance Heiskell, show up and talk shop. Also: Yumeiro Patissiere, GinTama and some baffling new Bluray news. 2010-01-07
To Love Ru DVD part 1 Yeah, this series about a girl-shy young man getting unintentionally betrothed to a sexy alien princess is unabashedly trashy, but it does exactly what it intends to do: deliver a lot of fan service and a good number of effective laughs. That makes any arguments about how lowbrow or retread it is largely irrelevant.
Rental Magica Sub.DVD Collection 1 The anime equivalent of the kid in school who tries so hard to be like everyone else that he becomes invisible.
20th Century Boys 1 (live action) DVD Rather than a film, a chain of filmed events: an exercise in base narrative that drains the life from a lot of fine scenes before hanging them in a line like butchered beeves in a warehouse. Cool ending, though.
Gunslinger Girl OVA DVD This DVD is largely forgettable, for completionists only, but will certainly satisfy fans who wanted to see more of Guise and Jean's souls laid bare…along with their chests in the beach scenes. At the very least, it's a harmless excursion for the story.
Aria The Natural Sub.DVD Boxset 2 This is a series that doesn't really go anywhere, and it doesn't have to. It's fine exactly where it is.
Kaze no Stigma DVD part 2 Somewhat surprisingly, the second half of this series about elemental magic users actually steps up its game a notch, thanks largely to improved writing and more fan service. While it should never be mistaken for a quality series, it at least does okay.
Monster DVD Box Set 1 Part evil fairy tale, part spy thriller, part moral study, and all dark resonance, it's something akin to a myth: an Odyssey for the bleak, byzantine years directly after fall of the Soviet Union.
Detroit Metal City GN 3 After several singles, an album, a music video, and even a cameo appearance in a movie, has the culture-clash hilarity of Krauser's exploits worn out its novelty?