Well after posting about the Hime figure that is coming out from Goodsmile. I hunted down the fansubs for the series. It’s a older series so after waiting the couple of days for the first episode to download I took a look.

The other new anime that I am watching right now is Real Drive. It’s kind of hard to explain the plot in less then 5 paragraphs, but I will try. The shot of it is that in the later half of the 21 century we’ve come up with some sort of high end cyber tech [...]

Just started watching this new series called Soul Eater. The visual style is fairly dynamic with lots of extreme camera angles, fish-eye lens, and foreshortening. The series takes place at the Shinigami technical school for weapon technicians, and revolves around 3 group different teams of weapon meister and weapon that can take human form. Each [...]

I was in the book store a few weeks back and picked up the first Vampire Hunter D novel. Up till now my only experence with D was the original 1985 anime movie. This is the book the original movie was base on, the second movie Bloodlust is based on book 3, so the plot [...]

I found out about Denno Coil while hitting the screening rooms at Sakura-con. It a pretty unique series made only more compelling by it contradictions.Denno Coil is set in the near future where the use of Cyber Glasses that allow the use to both access the Internet and interact with a virtual/ augmented reality. [...]

This was the second time I’ve been to Sakura Con, the first being two years ago, and in just two years attendance has doubled to near 14,000 people. The drive up wasn’t too bad, except for that one part were I missed a turn and ended up lost in Portland, OR for about 5 [...]

Well as a part time anime Geek one of the first things I downloaded and got working on the Mac was Bittorent client and got to downloading. I ran in to a bit of trouble when it came time to play the new episode of Bleach. It seems that the Quicktime Player don’t like the [...]

Well just to prove how wide spread Otaku culture has spread. Even the Japan National Tourist Organization is targeting the foreign Otaku. Thou the article briefly mention doujishi and other more sub-culture items it’s main fouce is more on mainstream stuff like the upcoming Tokyo International Anime Fair being held in late March.

Aono Tsukune is a below average Jr High School student who couldn’t pass the High School entrance exams, but ‘luckily’ for him his dad picked up the entrance packet dropped but a mysterious monk. So now Tsukune gets to go to Yokai Academy. The bad news is Yokai Academy is a school for monsters, [...]

Just found out via Alafista.com that there is going to be a second series coming out in January to the Gunslinger Girl anime airing on Tokyo MX at 27:00 according to the official site. Gunslinger Girl has got to be one of my favorites anime in recent years. While it does have some action the [...]

Warner Home Video has announced that they will be releasing the new Appleseed movie on DVD in 2008, the official site is here. Appleseed is one of the first translated manga titles that I read way back when. I have always thought that is one of Shirow’s best works, and alway been on of my [...]

Our girl Clare enters the cave and is confronted by a few low level Yoma which she quickly dispatches but things go down hill pretty quickly after that. The big guy Duff shows up and starts trying to put the hurt on our girl Clare. He is not having too much luck at first as [...]