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“Summer Wars” Preview: This Looks Really Awesome

Summer Wars is from much of the same staff (director, screenwriter and character designer) that put together one of my favorite anime movies, The Girl…

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The Zen of Eureka Seven

Take one gangly kid, one cooldere, and a bunch of heroic rebels who just want to live free. Put them in a dystopian future where…

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The Worst Manga Ever

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to participate in the Japanese delinquent world? With its immersive atmosphere, highly decompressed storytelling, and blow-by-blow…

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First Look Fair: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya S2

The Singularity is here. I see the blogosphere being sucked into a spinning vortex from this point forward…and I am willingly one of the first!

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Strike Witches: The Evil Without

In our roundtable discussion on whether or not anime is art, Ray brought up an excellent point about that infamous scifi-fantasy-loli-pantsu fanservice vehicle, Strike Witches. …

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Half and Half makes one fine read

There are many manga in the world, and there are many manga cliches. At first, a reader might think, “I don’t have time for double-takes.”…

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