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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

The List - 7 Popular Japanese Folk Monsters
The List is counting down seven popular monsters that show up time and again in our favorite shows. 2013-11-02

Answerman - Halloween Hangover
A guy who checked out of anime for a decade comes back to find that movies aren't what they once were! Then, what's up with Gundam, and does it even make sense to dub anime anymore? 2013-11-01

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

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya
This alternate take on the Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero universe, focusing on Illyasviel von Einzbern becoming a magical girl, should satisfy fans of the franchise and provide a non-intimidating gateway into the franchise for newcomers.

Magical Idol Pastel Yumi Episodes 1 - 6 Streaming
Pastel Yumi's first six episodes introduce us to a soft world that may have a hidden edge or two, but the air of fun and adventure that saturates the show is hard to resist.

Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3 Episodes 7-13 Streaming
You get a different kind of enjoyment from this half of the series, but no greater or lesser than that of the first. And given the fun we had in those episodes, that's no mean achievement.

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.

Bodacious Space Pirates Episodes 1-6 Streaming
An easygoing sci-fi adventure, content to rely on its cliché-retardant cast and intelligent action to paper over its gaps in momentum. Declines some after a dazzling start but remains effortlessly entertaining nonetheless.