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The Winter 2012 Anime Preview Guide
The Winter 2012 Anime Preview Guide has begun! Check back every day for new previews!
Previews Available Now: Nisemonogatari episode 2 - Familiar of Zero F episode 2 - Lagrange episode 2 - Bodacious Space Pirates episode 2 - Knight in the Area episode 2 - Thermae Romae - Inu x Boku SS - Ano Natsu de Matteru - and much more! 2012-01-06

The Mike Toole Show - Revenge of the Special Edition
In the shadow of all the sturm und drang happening in the R1 anime industry, Mike looks back at a simpler time, one with giant cardboard boxes filled with knick-knacks. 2012-01-15

Gia's List: 7 Anime Characters with Terrible Karma
Sometimes bad things happen to good anime characters. Here are some of the worst miscarriages of karmic justice. 2012-01-14

ANNCast - Challenge of the Super Manga Pals
ANNCast is back! Justin and Zac take stock of the bad news this month, and then it's fun times with Super Manga Pals Deb Aoki and Ed Sizemore! We talk the best of 2011 and what 2012 might have in store! 2012-01-13

Hey, Answerman! - Cartoon Panacea
This week on Hey, Answerman! Does "unoriginal" always mean "bad"? Will American comics and cartoons pick up some of anime and manga's "slack"? And why are "rip groups" and "fansub groups" lumped in together? Does this paragraph need any further "quotation marks"? Read on! 2012-01-13

Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - ES (Eternal Sabbath)
Jason fails to shield his mind from Fuyumi Soryo's terrifying tale of psychics, ES (Eternal Sabbath). 2012-01-12

Animal Land GNs 2 & 3
Animal Land is both like and unlike other shounen series on the anglophone market. It is, at its heart, a tale of love and friendship and how together we are stronger than apart. But it is also a story of child-abandonment, the cruelties of nature, and the violence of the natural world.

Oresama Teacher GN 6
Oresama Teacher is the child that can't quite settle on what she wants to be when she grows up.

Dengeki Daisy GN 7
Dengeki Daisy still isn't the absolute best shoujo out there, but it is still most definitely a series worth reading.

Chi's Sweet Home GN 7
As a feline slice-of-life series, Chi's Sweet Home aims for new heights in Volume 7 ... but sometimes it stumbles in trying to reach those heights, or misses them entirely.

Bunny Drop GN 1-3
If you have been scared off by the scandal of the potential ending to the manga, don't be. These three volumes, along with the fourth, make up a lovely story of a man learning how to be one through raising a little girl.

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 DVD
The Knight Sabers are back in this Funimation rerelease of the late '90s sci fi action series. Music and character development highlight this genre-defining tale of young women using powered armor to fight rogue androids.

Black Bird GN 12
Despite a reputation as a romance mangaka, Kanoko Sakurakoji really does a better job with dark fantasy. Or perhaps that somewhat blanketing statement should be amended to “Kanoko Sakurakoji's Black Bird has been a better series since the focus shifted away from romance.”

Clannad: Complete Collection Blu-Ray
Every character, interaction, and happening in Clannad is calculated for maximum emotional impact. And impacted we are.

Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie & Eizou Hakusho DVD
The key to enjoying this set is to realize right off the bat that it isn't a traditional DVD release so much as a two-disc collection of extras.

Border GN 2
Overall Border is an engaging, entertaining story that would be right at home airing on any basic cable channel. With a tight-knit core team of attractive crime-fighting men, a police detective on their trail, and a willingness to show the darker side of their missions, Border makes for good reading for the action fan.

Puni Puni Poemi DVD
Have you ever found yourself thinking the following? “Man, Excel Saga is really good, but I just wish it weren't paced so slowly!”... Nabeshin and company decided the world needed a two-episode OVA that covered about as much material as ten episodes of Excel Saga.