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Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Midori Days
Just in time for the giving of thanks, Jason imagines a conversation between himself and Shaenon Garrity about the most wildly popular manga about a dude with a girl for a hand, Midori Days. 2011-11-24

ANNCast - Game Show II: Sons of Liberty
Todd, Dave and Joel return to ANNCast this week for nearly 2 hours of nothin' but videogame chat! We hit everything: Dark Souls, Uncharted 3, Skyrim, Xenoblade Chronicles and more! Plus: a whole lotta Twitter time! WOO! 2011-11-23

The X Button - Excellent Saga
This week, we chat with the Otomedius Excellent staff! Plus more on the Persona 4 fighter, a whole bunch of indie games, and even something about Apocalypse Zero. 2011-11-23

Anime News Nina! - 2011-11-23
Sometimes you eat the potluck, and sometimes the potluck eats you. 2011-11-23

RIGHT TURN ONLY!! - The Princess Diaries
Magical heroines are saving the day with Princess Knight and Tokyo Mew Mew in this week's column. But could a brand-new CLAMP series trump them both? 2011-11-22

Shelf Life - NY Noir
Erin tries her hand at time travel, and questions her feelings about assassins.
- Loups=Garous
- Noir complete
- Steins;Gate ep. 8-24
2011-11-21

L'Arc-en-Ciel Concert Film Ticket Give-Away
Win tickets to see The Best of L'Arc-en-Ciel 2 Days Live at Tokyo Ajinomoto Stadium at a theater near you. 2011-11-21

The Mike Toole Show - The Melancholy of Yoshinobu Nishizaki
Mike examines the wild life of the late Space Battleship Yamato co-creator, producer, convicted gun runner and infamous playboy Yoshinobu Nishizaki. 2011-11-20

Un-Go Episodes 1-6 Streaming
Plenty easy to enjoy—so long as you aren't in it for the sleuthing.

ICE DVD
This 2007 OVA series about a dystopian future where only women survive has a lot of cool ideas, but the series suffers greatly because its production staff doesn't seem to know how to execute those ideas or even tell a coherent story.

Kimi to Boku. Episodes 1-7 Streaming
Feel-good entertainment that you don't have to feel bad about.

Loups=Garous Blu-Ray
The titular werewolves are figurative rather than literal in this occasionally dark, often edgy movie about socially dysfunctional youths who must contend with a serial killer in a tightly-controlled futuristic society.

Grand Guignol Orchestra GN 3
Viz' favorite Mistress of Goth is in top form if you can look beyond the niggling details, and the “Tragedie Lyrique” and “Ma Cherie” arcs flow almost seamlessly together, giving this volume a readabilty that isn't always present in her works.

Saturn Apartments GN 4
Fans of the series' gentle artistry, slice-of-life storytelling, and its fanciful futuristic setting will be glad to know that Volume 4 continues in the same vein.

Pokémon: Black and White GNs 1 and 2
Do you have or know a young child whom you'd like to introduce to manga? Viz's VizKids line has a good series for you. While manga based on gaming franchises do not have an illustrious history, Hidenori Kusaka and Satoshi Yamamoto's kid-friendly romp makes for solid entertainment for the six-to-ten set that requires minimal beforehand knowledge of the Pokemon world.

Seiho Boys' High School! GN 8
Overall? This is the weakest volume in the series. If you've read the previous seven, it is worth finishing it out, but don't expect that fun and laughter that made the earlier books so enjoyable.

Higurashi: When They Cry GN 13
There is only one more volume in this answer arc, and the end of volume thirteen, or Eye Opening Arc 3, is promising. A major player in the series makes her move in a way that you may or may not have seen coming. Shion is certainly taken by surprise, and given that it is through her deranged eyes that we are seeing things, readers fully absorbed by the story will have a good shock as well.

Oresama Teacher GN 3
Oresama Teacher is neither the best nor the worst shoujo manga out there. It is fun in places, less so in others, and a bit uneven overall. If you've been reading it and liking it thus far, there's nothing here to stop you from enjoying this volume as well.

Di Gi Charat Nyo! DVD 9
Dejiko may be the star, but this volume is owned by Piyoko.