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To Love RU – yeah…it doesn’t matter how they try…

They just can’t get out of the magical girlfriend cliches, can they? Oh well, anime happens. An alien (princess) show up after escaping from her…

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Kurenai – an odd show that I cannot put my finger on.

Is it supernatural? Is it Jidai (period) style drama? Is it “kid messing up a young man’s life”? Is it “secret organization and assassination”? What…

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Mike’s Spring 2008 Season Prospects

The spring 2008 season of anime has begun! What will I look at this season?

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Bamboo Blade 26 – why is it so good?

Boy, here’s an impossible task – to identify why Bamboo Blade is so good despite being so plain and almost realistic (yeah, I know it…

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Shin Kyuuseishu Densetsu Hokuto no Ken Toki-den – Or Fist of the North Star New Movie – Toki’s Story

Now, I don’t review academically like Mike, and I only crank out good review with Claymore. But let’s look at this movie anyhow. it’s no…

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True Tears Review – The Sum of All Tears (85%)

A few missteps and lurches into soap opera territory cannot spoil what was the most delicately balanced–and affecting–ending this season, capping off a show that…

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