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Archive for September, 2007

Weekly Round-Up: September 14th

Reviewed this week: Baccano! 5, Doujin Work 6-7, Oh! Edo Rocket 2-6, Seirei no Moribito 21, Sisters of Wellber 8 …and in manga: Akagi 5, Aria 24-5, Spiral 53-6, Tsubasa 166

Master Keaton

In his trademark suit and tie, Taichi Hiraga-Keaton may look like just another office worker, but this half-English, half-Japanese man is no ordinary person. After graduating from Oxford University, he served in the SAS, before becoming both an insurance investigator for Lloyd’s of London and a researcher and lecturer in archaeology- all the while making [...]

Autumn 2007 Preview, or Fall for you Yanks

It’s that time again, when I write about all the anime to come in the next month or so, ignoring the fact that everyone else does this already. I’ve given up on the whole predicting what I will or won’t watch, since it’s laughably inaccurate- let’s just get down to what will be replacing the [...]

Pumpkin Scissors parody 17

The epic final showdown between Gun and Flaming Pleasure has begun, but which form of HARD GAY is the strongest? And can anyone who participates in these dangerous types of Pleasure ever live to tell the tale? “Hans, when give the signal, you must give me HARD GAY.”

Tuesday Rumble: September 11th

The other day, I learned something which changed everything I once knew and held to be true. What was this profound truth, you might ask? Well, by using first person mode in the original .hack games, my sister and I have been able to look inside grunties, and they have been discovered to be hollow. [...]

Good Witch of the West volume 1

In the quiet village of Sera Field, Firiel Dee lives an uneventful life, spending time with her father’s servants whilst he and his apprentice research and study the stars. On her fifteenth birthday, however, she decides to attend a royal ball as a special treat, only to discover that she is descended from the queen [...]

Sunday News Bites: September 9th

Hello and welcome to another edition of Sunday News Bites! Although it hardly feels like it, it’s now been three months since we started, and this week, we have a special guest to celebrate that fact- Ryuuki from Saiunkoku Monogatari. Read on to find out the Imperial opinion on this week’s breaking news. Mushi-Uta second [...]

Weekly Round-Up: September 7th

Reviewed this week: El Cazador 21, Darker than Black 21, Higurashi Kai 9, Mononoke 6-7, Seirei 20, Wellber 7 …and in manga: Claymore ES 3, SaiMono 8, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 7-11, Spiral 51-2, Tsubasa 165

Dark Side Gaming Rant: SaGa Frontier 2

In the first gaming era, I was a lot less selective than I am now; if it even remotely resembled an RPG, I had to play it- and more so if was created by the then Squaresoft. Back in those days, I was a hopeless Final Fantasy fangirl, and so everything they produced had to [...]

El Cazador de la Bruja parody episode 21

It’s crunch time for Nadie and Ellis as they face up to the vital task of catching a random vulture. How will our heroines fare on this new, unexpected and entirely pointless venture? Blue-Eyes decides to indulge in a bit of casino bondage.