Etsuko ABE

Anime News Nina! - The End
Nina, Kevin and Paola ride off into the Tokyo sunset, with a farewell message from Nina creator Robin Sevakis. 2013-10-30

ANNual Pumpkin Carving Contest
ANN's annual pumpkin carving contest is back! Show us your best Jack o' Lanterns and win prizes! 2013-10-18

Interview: Wikia's Masters of Animanga
We talk to Masao Maruyama, Kazuo Koike, Takashi Okazaki, and Sin'Ichi Hiromoto about their work on Wikia's experimental collaborate storytelling project and more! 2013-10-30

The X Button - Cosmic Phantasy
We talk about RPGs and outer space with the creators of Cosmic Star Heroine! Plus Yumi's Odd Odyssey, Typing of the Dead, and giant inflatable anime girls. It's not what you think. 2013-10-30

Pile of Shame - Wanna-Be's
Did anyone say "I want more women's wrestling anime?" .... No? Didn't think so. 2013-10-29

Shelf Life - Dead Girl Walking
This week's anime involves a zombie girlfriend, and lots of singing, dancing, and robots.
- AKB0048 s1
- Sakura Wars the Movie
- Sankarea
2013-10-28

Astro Toy - Rio-Bot Blodia
An obscure robot from an obscure fighting game? Why not! 2013-10-27

GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka DVD
To enjoy it you need only be at peace with bad taste and familiar with the 20th Century plague of uplifting films about unconventional teachers helping troubled teens.

Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning Blu-Ray
This roughly even mix of the first two episodes of the TV series and new content successfully converts the series into movie format, making this one of the best efforts of its type to come along in quite some time.

Midnight Secretary GN 1
Sensual, fun, and about grown-up people who act their ages, Midnight Secretary is a classically plotted vampire romance that should please fans of the genre or just those who'd like a romance that's a little more adult.

Btooom! GN 3
Btooom is not going to be a series for everyone. A darker take on the “real life video game” genre, Inoue doesn't skimp on horrific details, be they violent or sexual.

Fairy Tail GN 27
...a page turner of a volume that leaves us eager for the next installment, because while popular wisdom dictates that the hero of a shounen manga nearly always wins, what if this is the time when he doesn't?

Jiu Jiu GN 4 & 5
On the whole, Jiu Jiu is a disappointing series.

Demon Love Spell GN 3
Demon Love Spell is hardly a stand out in the shoujo genre, but it also is hardly the worst thing in creation.

Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail BD+DVD
The maid returns and goes on the warpath to avenge her master as one of the top action franchises of the 2000s continues. While not a masterpiece, this OVA series delivers plenty well enough on its entertainment value.

Gatchaman Crowds Episodes 8-12 Streaming
Crowds' finale turns the show into the superhero actioner it always promised to be, but more than that, it turns it into a sneakily ambitious forum on human nature.

Attack on Titan
Despite some significant recurring problems, this tale about humanity defending against giant humanoids intent on eating them is an intense, visceral, and graphic thrill ride which features some of anime's most effectively creepy monsters.

Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo DVD
The first half of this loose Fist of the North Star/DBZ parody is one of the most aggressively stupid of all anime titles, but it does have some truly funny moments tucked in amongst its unrestrainedly wacky behavior.