Anne KERYLEN

Anime Spotlight: tsuritama
Fishing, social misfits, and a duck named Tapioca. Character designs by the Cencoroll dude. 2012-03-13

Anime Spotlight: Dusk maiden of Amnesia
Our first Anime Spotlight of spring is the schoolhouse horror show from the director of BAKA and TEST! 2012-03-12

Review: Street Fighter X Tekken
"A flurry of fan-bait packaged with the right strokes of humor and absurdity, Street Fighter X Tekken is damaged only by Capcom's misguided attempts to squeeze the idea for every last penny." Todd Ciolek weighs in on Capcom's controversial fighter. 2012-03-12

RIGHT TURN ONLY!! - I'm Yokai, You're Yokai
Get into something serious with Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan and No Longer Human, or, if you prefer lighter fare, Shugo Chara Chan! is in this week's column as well. The choice is yours! 2012-03-13

Shelf Life - Bod Squad
Erin investigates some harem tropes, and talks about everyone's favorite miniskirt pirate.
- Bodacious Space Pirates ep. 1-9
- Rosario + Vampire Capu2
- First Squad - Moment of Truth
2012-03-12

The Mike Toole Show - The Con That Failed
Mike sits in his rocking chair, sips his lemonade and remembers the time an anime convention completely flew off the tracks. 2012-03-11

Gia's List: Anime's 6 Deadliest Tournaments
When anime characters are forced to battle to the death, the results can be impressively disturbing. 2012-03-10

Inu X Boku Secret Service Episodes 1-6 Streaming
A pleasant but insubstantial confection; a lightly atmospheric diversion that gives you nothing to hold onto, no matter where you try to grab on.

Street Fighter X Tekken
A flurry of fan-bait packaged with the right strokes of humor and absurdity, Street Fighter X Tekken is damaged only by Capcom's misguided attempts to squeeze the idea for every last penny.

Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing Episodes 1-12 Streaming
An aerial adventure that is epic in scope, personal in focus, and bursting with visual imagination; a spectacular series that is never so busy showing off that it forgets to entertain.

Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Dai-Ni-Maku Episodes 1-6 Streaming
Detective Opera Milky Holmes is a fun little romp filled with references to both the detective fiction genre and other anime titles. It lacks overt cohesion in its plot, but it is very nearly always at least cute, if not actually entertaining.

Brave10 Episodes 1-6 Streaming
The best way to enjoy Brave10 is to not worry about the plot ... just wallow in the eye candy as legendary warriors go at it with their amazing powers.

Sengoku Basara 2 Blu-Ray + DVD
This season may enrich its fights with additional intellectual and emotional context, but make no mistake: ludicrous action spectacle is still the series' reason for existence.

.hack//Quantum Blu-Ray + DVD
While there are some interesting twists this time around, such as a medical reason for the players being targeted, it still has that not-so-fresh feeling of a recycled story that we have seen, played, and read many times before.

Grave of the Fireflies DVD
Sentai Filmworks offers up this bare-bones rerelease of one of anime's greatest movies. This tragic story of two war orphans struggling in vain to survive is difficult to watch but something that everyone should watch.

Book Girl and the Corrupted Angel Novel 4
Book Girl and the Corrupted Angel is a bittersweet story of broken dreams and loneliness. It is also the best novel in the series to date.

Familiar of Zero F Episodes 1-6 Streaming
The main reason we stick with Zero has nothing to do with style or plot. It is, quite simply, Saito and Louise. Though even they have their troubles carrying this uneven slice of the franchise.

Kamichu! DVD 4
Few anime are as adept at washing away a day's worries, bulldozing pressure, and inducing a state of complete relaxation as Kamichu is. You may not be able to buy tranquility in a bottle, but it does come in shiny little discs. This is the fourth one.