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Don’t miss out on my reviews of School Rumble, Volumes One, Two, Three, Four and Five before reading my review of Volume Six!!
School Rumble “ends” with this last volume in the series, but why does it feel more like a “See You Soon” than a “Sayonara“?
plot summary
Class 2C and 2D are locked in a battle [...]

The Death Note manga is turning out to be a riveting read. And after taking into account of how popular the manga is with anime fans, I wanted to judge for myself if the anime series of the same name does the manga justice. So far, the Death Note anime is as engaging as the [...]

Every now and again, anime gets a chance to impart some wisdom or express a valid point of view. Hayao Miyazaki is a master at making highly entertaining anime which doubles as commentary. His movies have a clarity which is subtle and obvious, depending on how you view them.
Origins: Spirits of the Past, [...]

It so happens I love vampire novels and movies. When Anne Rice, vampire novelist extraordinare, was the toast of the goth world, I read all her books, even the Witching Hour (blah). I even read the less than complimentary novels featuring vampires by other novelists, but became burnt out on it all.
Black Blood Brothers [...]

FUNimation has released a double feature DVD for CLAMP fans to go gaga over. The double feature is two thirty five minute movies: one is Tsubasa, the other is xxxHolic. Let’s see what a double dose of CLAMP feels like!
The Princes in the birdcage kingdom
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle is an anime based on the [...]

Mystery anime is a genre I haven’t watched much of. Not that I’m averse to it, just I haven’t found any which make sense or seem believable. Spiral, the anime, is a mystery anime based off the manga by Kyou Shirodaira. The manga was first inked in 2000 with fifteen volumes being produced. [...]

Idealism. Good, bad, naive? In todays’ world, where realism and cynicism have a strong foothold, idealism may seem all but dead.
Everyone wants to think that life can be made better for the masses (idealism) but the reality is, the masses don’t want life to be better (cynicism) or maybe it’s [...]

There are two freebies this time around:
First, from ANN, the Gaia Online Community is streaming the first two episodes of Kiddy Grade. Here is a synopsis from RightStuf!:
“In Star century Zero-One-Sixty-Five, the Global Union was born. To provide an impartial mediator to the various planetary governments of the G.U., the Galactic Organization of Trade [...]