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Yet to be the oldest kid on the block, this East Coast implant writes cryptic things about JP folklore, the industry or dirty moe. Attend cons and lives the "I can buy Aniplex releases" life.





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Beautiful Streamers: Analyzing Daisuki and AnimeSols

When AnimeSols and Daisuki launched last week, the North American landscape for streaming anime has changed. Sure, at this early point, both services are nascent, offering only some basic services rather than the full range o...   more

Beautiful Streamers: Analyzing Daisuki and AnimeSols photo

Oreimo web radio is now taking your fan mail

Oreimo season 2's web radio show, hosted by Kana Hanazawa and Ayana Taketatsu, is soliciting oversea fans to write to them. One of the corners on the radio program showcases foreign fan letters, and they're asking for mo...   more

Oreimo web radio is now taking your fan mail photo

First Impressions: Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W

Coming from someone whose main exposure to H.P. Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu being board games like Arkham Horror and Elder Sign, to me, Haiyore Nyaruko-san has always been a strange vortex of nerd elements...   more

First Impressions: Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W photo


First Impressions: Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W photo
First Impressions: Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W photo
First Impressions: Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W photo
First Impressions: Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W photo
First Impressions: Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W photo
First Impressions: Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W photo



Final Impressions: Vividred Operation

With every cliche used and every pair of legs used to frame shots, Vividred Operation comes to an end. Was it exactly as you expected? Those who remained to left to follow Akane and her friends to the end probably had a good ...   more

Final Impressions: Vividred Operation photo


Final Impressions: Vividred Operation photo
Final Impressions: Vividred Operation photo
Final Impressions: Vividred Operation photo
Final Impressions: Vividred Operation photo
Final Impressions: Vividred Operation photo
Final Impressions: Vividred Operation photo



'A look at': Sengoku Collection episode 7

A poet to the bone; a town turns to haiku for renewal, to heal.   more

'A look at': Sengoku Collection episode 7 photo

Editorial: The new state of industry

Japanese prices? It's a better alternative, than nothing at all?   more

Editorial: The new state of industry photo

Feature: Reverse Importation is the name of the game

[Some interesting legal decisions have just come down the pipe that could affect the time-honored pastime of importing cool stuff from overseas. Jeff brings us his analysis. Read about it below, and see some more coverage fro...   more

Feature: Reverse Importation is the name of the game photo

Manga pioneer Toren Smith has passed away

We all have to meet our Maker sometime, but some of us simply do it way too early. The man who was responsible for first bringing manga as we know it to North America, Toren Smith, has passed away. Smith's friend and writer J...   more

Manga pioneer Toren Smith has passed away photo

Life (not) after Rinko

You can be a realist and move on with your new games, new anime, new favorites, and your ever-renewing life. Or you could be serious about your relationships and realize that we have to live with our choices. Sometimes what w...   more

Life (not) after Rinko photo

Review: Ninja Scroll Blu-ray

No point beating around the bush: The mid-1990s action anime legend Ninja Scroll is now on Blu-ray in North America. It's the best it has looked on home video yet.  But it's been a long time--20 years now--that Ninja Scr...   more

Review: Ninja Scroll Blu-ray photo

First Impressions: Vividred Operation

Vividred Operation is, surprisingly, a very simple thing to describe: it's a magical girl anime with sentai action (the color-coordinated variety). What's much more difficult to explain, however, is what makes it remarkable. ...   more

First Impressions: Vividred Operation photo

Final Impressions: Seitokai no Ichizon Lv. 2

Among a series of failed romances, the decimation of one's motivation, academic hardship and the ultimate struggle to find one's calling in life, Ken Sugisaki has it tough. His family circumstances are weird. He applied to a ...   more

Final Impressions: Seitokai no Ichizon Lv. 2 photo