Posts Tagged ‘ gonzo

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25 Mar , 2008

Witchblade, Volume Five

Posted by: Rachel In: Anime Reviews

Feel free to catch up on my reviews of Witchblade Volumes One, Two, Three and Four!
With Witchblade Volume Five, the anime proves it has a schizophrenic nature by changing from a jiggly breast-fest into a meaningful series *gasp*!
Plot Summary
After her encounter with her “mother”, Maria has become a sober young adult over night. She has [...]

11 Feb , 2008

Witchblade, Volume Four

Posted by: Rachel In: Anime Reviews

Catch up to my review of Witchblade, Volume Four by reading my reviews of Volumes One, Two and Three!
In a bizarre twist, Volume Four in the Witchblade anime manages to turn the series on its head by being thoughtful, engaging, and good. Weird.
plot summary
Masane has recently learned Rihoko is not her biological daughter. The [...]

10 Jan , 2008

Witchblade, Volume Three

Posted by: Rachel In: Anime Reviews

You might want to catch up with my reviews of Witchblade, Volumes One and Two before reading my review of Volume Three!
Things get interesting as Masane proves she is dumber than a pile of rocks and the series finally takes a cold shower…
plot summary
Masane has tentatively teamed up with her neighbor and freelance journalist, Tozawa. [...]

26 Nov , 2007

Witchblade, Volume Two

Posted by: Rachel In: Anime Reviews

Witchblade, the anime, is the bestselling anime of the year, “According to analysis of Nielsen VideoScan data after its September 25th release date…” Well, if what made volume one a success was its “sexy protagonist and antagonists dueling each other”, then Volume Two will blow its predecessor out of the water since it has [...]

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 [...]

10 Oct , 2007

Anime Review: Glass Fleet, Volume One

Posted by: Rachel In: Anime Reviews

Do you ever feel like you’re being punished when you watch certain anime? Does it seem as if the anime is saying, “Thou hast sinned; now I divulge your punishment unto you a la Clockwork Orange,”? Or do you ever watch an anime as a means of atonement: “Oh lord, I didn’t mean [...]

08 Oct , 2007

Anime Review: Witchblade, Volume One

Posted by: Rachel In: Anime Reviews

Although I don’t bat an eye at pop culture now, there was a time I was noob to the entire idea. American comics were my first step towards overall popular culture acceptance. In the eighties I would snuggle up with my cousins’ comics when I went to visit my family in Podunk, No Man’s Land [...]


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