The Anime Blog – We Go Beyond Anime!

While I mostly watch anime and only occasionally read manga, I have my reasons for preferring anime over manga. It’s not that I dislike manga, on the contrary. One of the reasons for forgoing manga is, manga is more dangerous than anime- for me. With manga, it’s easy to pick it up and reread it [...]

After watching two volumes of a highly melancholy, depressing anime, I’ve come to the conclusion some things just shouldn’t be made into anime, let alone get twenty six episodes.
Some anime have a point to the melancholy drama, and get to it fairly quickly, but they don’t drag it out over every episode. I don’t want [...]

Check out my review of Ninja Nonsense Volume One!
If you’re a fan of Japanese culture, you’ll love Ninja Nonsense Volume Two! This volume highlights summer in Japan. Get out your swimsuits and yukata, but look out for pervy yellow balls with wings!
plot summary
Onsokamura continues to harass Shinobu and Kaede with his pervy practices. Everywhere the [...]

Finally! David and I, the founding members of The Anime Blog, have finally gotten together to record a podcast. The two of us have been watching anime together for over ten years and have both developed strong, differing opinions on the matter.
From now on, David is going to have his say in complete series reviews. [...]

Alcoholic- someone addicted to alcohol. Workaholic- a person who lives for work. Sugaholic- an individual who can’t be parted from sweets. Put -holic at the end of any word (x) and you get x-addiction.
No matter what anybody says, we’re all addicted to something in life. Be it something as innocuous as Care [...]

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 [...]

The May 2008 issue of Anime Insider (number 55) is now out. As always, watch for spoilers – they like to sneak up on you and ruin the surprise! Here are the top feature stories:
Features

Two of a Kind – Rock and roll forms the beginning of a beautiful friendship in Viz Pictures Live-Action ‘Nana’
Dressed for [...]