Fanboys DVD Review
By now the anticipation behind the Star Wars prequel series has long since passed, with a huge mixture of reactions from fans and non-fans alike. Love them or hate them, the original feeling before Episode 1 came out was that of eager, excited anticipation. The Star Wars fanboys were counting down the seconds, getting ready to camp out for the tickets, and it renewed tired arguments about Boba Fett and the Skywalkers.
DVD Review: The Best of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
One of the nice things about improvisation is that it can produce hilarity whether it works as intended or fails spectacularly. It only really suffers if you're somewhere in between. So taking the brilliant theatre sports showWhose Line is it Anyway? and finding the episodes with the biggest successes and most spectacular failures leaves you with plenty of excellent comedy.
DVD Review: Darker Than Black Volume 5
FUNimation releases the fifth volume of Darker Than Black for America!
DVD Review: RomeoxJuliet Vol.1
14 years prior to the start of the story, the evil Lord Montegue killed the rightful Prince Capulet and his entire family except for his daughter and a small group of Loyalists. Juliet and her retainers (Conrad, Fransico, Curio, and Cordelia, her childhood friend) are taken in by a struggling playwrite named William. Between the assassination of the Capulet family and the first episode Juliet is raised as a boy named 'Odin' and wears a wig inorder to hide the fact that she is the legitimate heir to the throne.
DVD Review: Pokemon DP Battle Dimension Volume 2
“Where blasting off again!”
Once again Ash Ketchum is on his journey to be a pokemon master. Ash is not alone, he and his friends, Brock, Dawn and most importantly Pikachu, are exploring the Sinnoh region. Team Rocket is still there and causing trouble as always. A new twist, Jessie and James aren’t the only Team Rocket members, Cassidy and Butch join the fun. Cassidy and Butch are under command of Professor Namba, who is always getting his name missed pronounced. Cassidy is Jessie’s rival and Butch, like his commander, is also always getting his named missed pronounced. Even with two Team Rockets, there are still more bad guys, Team Galactic, the organization only in Sinnoh gets in on the action. Enemies old and new alike are making Ash and the gang's life hard. Can Ash defeat them or will they defeat him?
DVD Review: Transformers: Season One 25th Anniversary Edition
Generation 1 of The Transformers is twenty five years old. Doesn't time fly? Twenty five years and the franchise is probably healthier now than it has been in at least twenty years, thanks to Michael Bay's flashy live action interpretation, whose second installment just released. As a new generation of viewers are discovering the pleasures of robot aliens who turn into cars, and jets, and dinosaurs and bugs and cities and planets and pretty much anything you can think of, Shout Factory and Hasbro are celebrating the past with the re-release of the first season of Generation 1 of The Transformers on DVD, now restored to its original broadcast quality.
Manga Review: Pokemon Adventure Volume 1
Pokemon Adventures is a story of a boy named Red and his dream to become a pokemon master. Red also wants to catch all of the pokemon, but he’s not alone, his rival is Blue. Blue is the grand son of Professor Oak, one of the greatest pokemon researchers of all time. The challenges in front of Red are hard and Team Rocket will just make them harder. Team Rocket aren’t the only problems, there are run away pokemon, pokemon thefts, pokemon that got fused with humans, pokemon zombis and getting trampled by a Snorlax. With all of those problems Red sure has his work cut out to be a pokemon master.
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DVD Review: Death Note Re-Light: Visions of a God Vol. 1
Death Note Re-light: Vision Of a God Vol. 1, starts off with an average shinigami looking for something new to do. He goes out on a mission to find the shinigami who dropped a Death Note into the human world, to learn more about the human world. He finds Ryuk, which is only swayed by an apple from the shinigami world. Ryuk starts his tale from the very beginning, with the thought of boredom and the dropping of a simple notebook…
DVD Review: Bleach Volume 16
"Once one enters Soul Society and is enlightened by the Order, eyes can't be closed, ears can not be blocked"
Volume 16 Highlights
DVD Review: Bleach Volume 17
"One thing we learned is that Uryu can no longer use his Quincy powers, isn't that true?"
Volume 17 Highlights
Manga Review: Detroit Metal City, Volume 1
"WHEN I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING, YOU'RE THERE MAKING CHEESE TARTS"