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Interview: Hiro Mashima
We chat with the mangaka behind the long-running smash hit Fairy Tail; his thoughts on the anime, his success, his influences, and more! 2011-11-08

Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Dodekain
Jason fires up his BURNING PASSION and checks out a manga that featured planet-sized robots way before Gurren Lagann. 2011-11-10

The X Button - Guardian Force
This week: we talk about Guardian Heroes, Daytona USA, 7th Dragon 2020, and even a few games that aren't backed by Sega! 2011-11-09

Anime News Nina! - 2011-11-09
Myoopi goes for a tumble. 2011-11-09

RIGHT TURN ONLY!! - Scrambled X
The end of the world comes to RTO!! with a review of CLAMP's X ... or for something a little less apocalyptic, how about Mardock Scramble and No Longer Human? 2011-11-08

Shelf Life - Ninja Nonsense
Erin enjoys the Victorian Era and covets some old-timey pillowcases before exploring teen angst.
- Emma complete
- Loveless
- Naruto Shippuden movie: Bonds
2011-11-07

The Mike Toole Show - War Stories
Mike straps in for a look at one of the very first manga ever published in the US, the fighter pilot drama Area 88. 2011-11-06

Fate/Zero Episodes 1-6 Streaming
In trying to express the breadth of this epic war, Fate/Zero stumbles too often in the beginning, a victim of its own towering ambitions.

Skip Beat! GN 25
This latest volume of Skip Beat is just as compulsively readable as its predecessors, and it does provide a good boost to the romantic subplot. It's just too bad that that romance comes with a creepy factor attached.

Naruto Shippuden The Movie: Bonds DVD
Bringing in new directorial blood and heavier ties to the franchise's main body isn't going to help anything if your script is an assemblage of used parts.

Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura GN 4
Most of this volume's action is in the past, but the last chapter sets the characters up for a grand battle for the princess. It is easy to overlook the lack of forward movement in the plot, but it still may be more rewarding to read this and volume five together when it comes out.

Gate 7 GN 1
If you have never read a Clamp series before, you have more of a chance of enjoying this one. If you've been a reader of the group for a while, however, you may find yourself less thrilled, as Gate 7 really does nothing new.

Yu Yu Hakusho Blu-Ray Season 3
The Dark Tournament ends and the Chapter Black saga begins as the series enters perhaps its strongest run of material to date. Still too predictable to be great, but pretty good nonetheless.

Dragon Ball Z Kai Blu-Ray 6
Despite some annoyances and repetitiveness, this portion of the Android Saga, which overlaps into the beginning of the Cell Saga, still conducts an involving build-up towards upcoming epic battles.

Tenjo Tenge GN 3
It truly is the fighting that makes the series worth it—the crushing in-your-face blows, the crackling bursts of superhuman energy, the intense looks on the combatants' faces. But how much longer will readers be satisfied with that?

Himawari! Season 1 Sub.DVD
A girl struggles to become a proper ninja in this innocuous and surprisingly clean 2006 series. Its quirkiness is mildly entertaining, but it only occasionally goes far enough on dramatic or comedy fronts to achieve better than that.

Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection Blu-ray
A sad farewell to a long-running franchise, as well as a very final conclusion.

Claymore DVD 5
The massed Claymore battles in snowy Pieta heat up, but the character development is as much the key in what is arguably the series' second-best run of episodes. Most who watch this volume will find themselves impatiently awaiting the next one.