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Buried Treasure - Legend of the Angel
Buried Treasure makes a special return appearance! This time, a little-known 90s OAV about a new transfer student and his terrifying, awful, no-good face. 2011-02-19

ANNCast - Adult Beveridge
It's a twofer this week on ANNCast! First up is Michael Underwood, Director of Entertainment for Anime Expo to talk about the fabulous cash prizes (and ensuing fiery controversy) at this year's Anime Music Video competition, then our old pal Chris Beveridge from mania.com drops by to chat about being a hardcore collector! It's fun times, get in here! 2011-02-18

Hey, Answerman! - A Higher Level of Whatever
In today's most refined edition of Hey, Answerman! Bourgeois people who claim to be a "Higher Level of Otaku," Roustabouts worried about fansubs dashing their hopes of employment, and the relative worth of Dragon Ball Kai in our media-soaked culture. And of course, the mot juste, Hey Answerfans! Indeed. 2011-02-18

Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga Special Edition Part 3: Sports Manga and Ginga: Silver Shooting Star
The final installment in Jason's series on cellphone manga includes Ginga: Silver Shooting Star, Eleven, Appleseed and more! 2011-02-17

The X Button - Marvel Combat
Upfront we've got an interview with New Generation Pictures' Jonathan Klein, the producer behind the voicework in Marvel vs. Capcom 3! Plus: Arcana Heart 3, Dissidia, and something called Under Night In-Birth. 2011-02-16

Anime News Nina! - 2011-02-16
A new challenger appears! 2011-02-16

Spice & Wolf Novel 3
Lawrence faces entirely different kinds of relationship and economics troubles as he is challenged to a merchant's duel, with Holo at stake, in a fresher story free of true action but no less effectively tense. If you liked the earlier novels, you'll like this one, too

Gosick Episodes 1-6 Streaming
Knows what any good Sherlock Holmes fan knows: the heart of the story isn't its mystery; it's Holmes and Watson. That holds true even if your Holmes is a little girl and your Watson a long-suffering Japanese teen.

AiON GN 2
Which is worse: a series that was mediocre to start with, or one that lapses into mediocrity after a promising start? The second volume of AiON may help to answer that question.

Koihime Muso DVD
This anachronistic, gender-flipped take on Romance of the Three Kingdoms is primarily an exercise in pure otakucentric fare, one which runs sexy and/or moe girls through a gantlet composed mainly of comical adventures and fan service situations. It can be fun if you don't expect much of it.

Cross Game Episodes 26-38 Streaming
Increases the baseball quotient and meddles most interestingly in the main relationships. Nothing complicated, but as anyone who's followed the series can tell you, simple doesn't have to mean simplistic.

Mitsudomoe Zōryōchū! Episodes 1-4 Streaming
Zōryōchū's dilemma can be summed up very simply: Mitsudomoe was all kinds of funny; Zōryōchū is fewer kinds of funny. That's a big problem.

Kara no Kyoukai - the Garden of sinners
Understanding what Type-Moon and ufotable have constructed after 9 hours of film is far more satisfying than the experience of actually sitting through it. A bizarre, brutal creation, something that is infinitely better in hindsight than it is in the moment.

Naruto GN 50
While this stretch of chapters does have its moments—scenes where Kishimoto's natural aptitude for action and raw emotion shine—the overall structure is too much of a mess.

Shiki Episodes 12-22 Streaming
The vampires were the monsters in the show's first half; the humans are the monsters in its second.

Library Wars: Love & War GN 4
Library Wars: Love and War is still a long way off from being a masterpiece, but there are definite signs of improvement, with the main characters adding new dimensions to their previously off-putting personalities.

Fafner DVD 3
If you thought the tragedy and breast-beating of Volume 2 was one big depress-o-fest, just wait until the angst of these four episodes.