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Year: 2009

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: 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: Pokemon: DP Battle Dimension Volume 1

“Looks like, where blasting off again.”

This is another step in Ash Ketchum’s journey to be a pokemon master. Like always, Ash has his good friend Pikachu and Brock and a newer friend, Dawn. This time Ash and the gang are in the Sinnoh region, with a lot of new challengers but even though they are in a new turf, Brock still falls in love with any pretty girl he meets. While Brock is trying to get a cute girl, Ash is determined to beat every gym leader in Sinnoh and Dawn is trying to get five contest ribbons. Since this is a new region with unseen wonders, there are bound to be many adventures along the way.