News

Japanese Comic Ranking, September 16–22

Anime Spotlight - Miss Monochrome -The Animation-
It's a 5-minute series based on a character created by voice actress Yui Horie. But what is it? Check out our Spotlight on Miss Monochrome! 2013-09-29

Anime Spotlight - Coppelion
Our first Anime Spotlight of the season.. Check out the post-apocalyptic series from the director of Mardock Scramble! 2013-09-27

Astro Toy - Super Robot Chogokin Shin Getter One
The Soul of Chogokin provides Dave with yet another fantastically-rendered Super Robot. 2013-09-29

The List - 6 Bizarre School Clubs
They didn't have these clubs at your local high school. 2013-09-28

ANNCast - Smack to the Future
Zac and Justin sit back, relax and take your Twitter questions! Future Diary, Attack on Titan, the erosion of "nerd culture", misogyny and more super fun things like that! 2013-09-27

Answerman - Evil Answerman
This week: is it legal to start a YouTube channel where you talk over whole anime episodes? (Spoiler: no.) Also, why do there seem to be two schools of thought when it comes to selling to TV networks? And does importing Japanese media make a big difference? 2013-09-27

Sunday Without God
Don't let the über–moe heroine fool you; this is actually a high-concept series which takes a surprisingly thoughtful, emotional, and even occasionally beautiful approach to exploring one of the most intriguing worlds in recent memory.

Daily Lives of High School Boys Blu-Ray
Daily Lives of High School Boys is one of the funnier shows to get an English-language release recently.

Hyperdimension Neptunia Episodes 1-6 Streaming
Neptunia may be about the least promising series to ever be barfed out by the gaming/anime complex, but once it gets its legs under it, it's a surprisingly engaging little adventure.

Voice Over! Seiyu Academy GN 1
Voice Over is off to a good start with a story that gets increasingly interesting as the book goes on and a heroine who is easy to get behind.

Michiko & Hatchin BD+DVD
Because it's so different, because it does so many things that you wish anime would do more often, you want to love it. But the best you can do is like it.

The Wonderful 101
The Wonderful 101 is the best we've seen out of the action genre since Bayonetta, and a hell of an argument for the WiiU all by itself.

Fairy Tail BD+DVD 6
Most folks enjoy flashy battles and feel-good endings, and the unexpected wrinkles in the story—secret bad-guy motives, magical traps, personal flashbacks—keep the action from getting too stale.

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2
Eventually killing fifteen hundred or two thousand enemies per level stops being novel and starts feeling mundane, and it's hard to imagine anyone using that word to describe One Piece.

Dirty Pair Sub.DVD
Whether you like older anime, are a Dirty Pair fan, or just like shows about women with guns who blow stuff up, there's something to enjoy in this lower-priced edition of Nozomi's release of the classic series.

From Up On Poppy Hill BD+DVD
Sentimental filmmaking in the very best sense: moving and deeply nostalgic yet winningly underplayed.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya DVD Second Season
Three more Haruhi stories get animated to fill in the gaps in the original series in this Extras-laden release by Bandai. The artistry is a bit off, and some of the gimmickry is of dubious merit, but this is still more of the same material that became a 2006 obsession for fans worldwide.