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One small tweak to the way user feedback is integrated into the scope of streaming video is enough to enrich the entire experience from solitary amusement to shared laughter and comments amongst a friendly and hilarious community. Nico Nico Douga (or Nico Nico Video), a streaming video site based in Japan and highly popular amongst its anime fanbase, demonstrates this with rather engrossing and addictive results.
Texhnolyze continues in its second volume, covering episodes five through eight, and slowly gives its viewers a clearer picture of the true undercurrents pulling the strings in Lukuss, as well as how Ichise begins to come into play amidst its warring factions. Still somehow both utterly breathtaking and horrifying at once, Texhnolyze remains a difficult watch, determined to explore the nuances of despair and pain as viscerally as it can--but is ultimately rewarding to those willing to let themselves be captured in its dark world.
From much of the team that brought Serial Experiments Lain into fruition, Texhnolyze is a dark, surreal, disturbing look into the dystopia of Lukuss--an underground city divided amongst itself due to the process of Tehxnolyzation, or the substitution of lost limbs with artificial appendages. In the first volume, we are introduced to the story of Ichise, a boxer faced with the loss of both his right arm and left leg, and how he slowly begins to be dragged into the conflict amongst the warring factions of the city.
Based on the popular shoujo manga series by Takaya Natsuki, Fruits Basket is the story of a high school girl named Tohru Honda who finds herself landed in with the Sohma family--twelve members of which are cursed to transform into an animal of the Zodiac whenever hugged by the opposite sex. Although many tragedies and dark undercurrents lie in the shadow of the curse, Tohru slowly inspires those around her with the strength of her hope and kindness, and changes their lives forever in an impressive release by Funimation.
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Geneon's When They Cry: Higurashi details the story of a boy named Keiichi Maebara, newcomer to the small village of Hinamizawa, who grows close to a circle of friends composed of four girls. Things take a sinister twist, however, when Keiichi hears whisperings of the dark history that surrounds the peaceful village--stories of brutal serial murders and dark cults, and becomes alarmed and increasingly paranoid as he begins to suspect his friends are involved.
For those needing a refresher with Moon Phase, these episodes start up after Hazuki has been rescued by supernatural photographer Kouhei, goes to live with his family, gets nabbed by Count Kinkel and returned. There's more to it than that, but anything else would lead into spoiler territory. It sounds exciting, but it isn't. In Phase 3, the mundane threatens to eclipse what is technically a beautiful series.
Death hovers quietly over the Mahora Academy's Class 2-A as one prominent student meets a painless, yet tragic end. The last volume is filled with confessions, life lessons, and some astonishingly deep guilt and angst you wouldn't expect to find in a light hearted offering such as Negima!, but the spirit is not entirely lost.
For ten year old Professor Negi Springfield and Mahora Academy Class 2-A, the class trip to Kyoto takes top priority in everyone's minds, opening the possibility for mystery, surprise, and danger. A high action volume, the series takes an abrupt turn from the last volume in both tone and speed with excellent results.
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With five short stories, the little girls with guns of Section Two deal with plenty of action and drama. While not everyone gets equal "panel time", each girl makes her presence duly felt in a fashion that leaves the reader with no complaints.
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Norwalk, CT, July 9, 2007: The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) today announced it will host the North American Premiere of the anime film CATBLUE Dynamite at its inaugural event this December in New York City. CATBLUE Dynamite, set in the 1970s, is the story of a girl named Blue who gets mixed up with the mob over a missing Frank Sinatra album. But while going up against an army of hitmen might make a normal woman shake, Blue's anything but normal. Blue has all the agility and finesse (and ears and a tail) of a cat, and when her reflexes alone aren't enough, she can also count on an undead sidekick. Sinatra, catgirls, and ghosts are just the start of the psychedelic motion picture that is CATBLUE Dynamite.
ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to announce it has acquired the exclusive theatrical, home video, and broadcast rights in North America to 5 Centimeters Per Second, the newest masterpiece from one of Japan's most remarkable directors.
Anime producer and mega-online anime retailer Right Stuf, Inc. is pleased to welcome John O'Donnell - the co-founder and managing director of Central Park Media (CPM) - to episode 43 of ANIME TODAY.
Anime producer and distributor Right Stuf, Inc. kicked off its 20th anniversary year a few weeks early with a trio of announcements during its June 30th panel at Anime Expo 2007. Right Stuf President and CEO Shawne Kleckner revealed plans to release both seasons of VICTORIAN ROMANCE EMMA, a collection release of the (previously) out-of-print, sci-fi comedy LOST UNIVERSE, and the renaming of Right Stuf's production division to Nozomi Entertainment, as well additional details about the release of THE THIRD: THE GIRL WITH THE BLUE EYE.
If you haven't read the review for Volumes One and Two, make sure to check them out so you know what's going on!
D'Eon and his companions have made it to Russia and have even managed get in contact with the Queen there. However things are never as simple as they wish it could be and plots emerge that threaten the stability of Russia itself. Secrets are also unrevealing and D'Eon gets closer and closer to figuring out the mystery behind his sisters death.
New York, NY (June 20, 2007) - Be Beautiful, America's leading publisher of yaoi manga graphic novels, announced today that its upcoming new releases will include two stand-alone romantic tales. YEBISU CELEBRITIES, the first of these stories, was written by Kaoru Iwamoto and drawn by Shinri Fuwa and is a stylish love story set in the world of a high profile graphic design studio. While LOVE A LA CARTE, by Haruka Minami, is a voyeuristic tale of a photographer enamored by his beautiful subject. Both books will be available this July and be priced at $15.99 SRP.
