DVD Review: Evangelion 1.01: You Are (Not) Alone
Evangelion 1.01: You Are (Not) Alone
Episodes 1-6 banded together to make a theatrical version, with remastered work using new ways of expression. Evangelion is planned to be released in four parts, with this 1.01 being the first installment. 14-year-old Shinji has been chosen to pilot the synthetic humanoid Evangelion Unit-01. His dad is the one in charge of NERV, but doesn't show much emotion to the fact that his son has a great chance of getting killed while piloting.
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Manga Review: Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka volume 6
Naoki Urasawa takes on the beloved icon Astro Boy in the new 8 volume set Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka. He explores an arch that dealt with Robot programing, why create an ultimate robot, and then limit its abilities with Human limitation and protective limitations or protocols. Pluto is presented as a detective murder mystery and spends the majority of the series following a Europol Detective, Gesicht, who also happen to be considered the most advanced robot alive.
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Manga Review: Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 21
Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 21
President Bradley is the target for an assassination plot. The State Alchemist and the Orders have all been decided, rebels against the Government. Ed and Al have been separated, but are reunited by unpleasant means.
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Manga Review: GoGo Monster
GoGo Monster
"There's a face in the water drop…"
Yuki Tachibana is in the first grade. He doesn't have many friends, only the gardener and one of the "Others," who Yuki calls Super Star. A new Transfer student named Makoto Suzuki becomes the only student in Yuki's class that actually talks to him, and eventually gets into his mind and brings him to reality.
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Supernatural In Review: The Road So Far…
The Road So Far…
"Changing Channels" had so much potential, yet failed to meet it. First of all, the actor who played the Trickster got lied to… that hair dye is not doing him any favors. Secondly, the jokes were a bit predictable. The soap opera in particular was extremely overdone. "Dr. Sexy?" I mean seriously. Everyone, including soap fans themselves, can appreciate soap opera jokes, but that was a bit over the top. In the end we got a mediocre attempt to be funny with some weak foreshadowing tacked onto the end.
Manga Review: Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit, Vol. 3
Ikigami The Ultimate Limit
The "National Welfare Act" was designed to inspire the citizens of Japan to respect the value of life. Every year, the first-graders of Japan get an immunization shot, with one in every one thousand containing a nano-capsule that is programed to follow the blood stream into the pulmonary artery. The nano-capsule will rest there until the predetermined time and date (usually between 18 to 24 years of the persons life), when the capsule will rupture, killing the individual.
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Anime Blu-ray Review: WitchBlade, The Complete Series
West meets East, and tide has begun to turn, or has it? WitchBlade is a well-franchised American comic that made it's way across the Pacific to find a new life by the hands of the artists at Gonzo Studio. In this version, the heroine is a kinder, gentler woman who is all about being a hapless mother, but still the all encompassing Mother figure. The story of a woman cursed with the ultimate power, a young daughter with a mysterious past, and some powerful entities after the WitchBlade itself.
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Book Review: The Twelve Kingdoms, The Vast Spread of the Sea
The Twelve Kingdoms: The Vast Spread of the Sea is the third in a series of light novels written from 1992 through 2001. This novel centers on two characters, Rokuta and Koya, two characters with similar beginnings, yet clearly different outcomes. They were both abandoned as children and ended up finding their paths in very different ways.
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DVD Review: Dragon Ball, Season 2 Remastered
The quest to retrieve Goku's Grandfather's 4 star Dragon Ball is full on. He has the Dragon Ball radar finder that Bulma gave him and his Nimbus to get him around, all that is left is the bad guys and helpless people.
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Manga Review: Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation volume 14
When you've got a spooky specter in your life that you need either sent up the heaven or back down to hell, you don't call the Ghostbusters — you call Muhyo and Roji's Law Consultation Office, experts in exorcising even the ghastliest of ghosts and most frightening of phantasms! Together, they serve a certain brand of justice to the offenders of underworld law. As civil servants of the Magic Law Association, Muhyo and Roji find themselves caught up in a war between the MLA and those of the evil organization Ark and the traitor Enchu – who is also Muhyo's ex-classmate and current rival. Muhyo and Roji will have to fight harder than even before with a wide cast of allies both human and not if they want to survive this trial of skills, or the final judgment might be for their lives!
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DVD Review: Adult Swim in a Box
Do you like Adult Swim?
Do you like boxes?
Well my friend, I have something to show you!
Manga Review: Bakegyamon volume 5
Every forty years, children from across the world are gathered together for the mysterious game Bakegyamon ("Backwards Game"), which was created by the Hell Master and held by monsters. It is said that whomever wins will be granted a wish, any wish they can think of. Eleven-year-old Sanshiro, eager to join an adventure, gets caught up in the world of Bakegyamon, where he finds out the hard way that the games aren't all they appear to be!
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