Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 1, 2010
With Trigun experiencing a revival with the upcoming movie, I was originally going to talk about Trigun Maximum in this space. Then, I realized that Trigun is over a decade old and many of you have already read it. On top of that, my copy of Yasuhiro Nightow’s latest manga, Kekkai Sensen (roughly, “Blood World [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 12, 2010
In a surprise move, NIS America, the American branch of Nippon Ichi Software, announced that it has moved into the American anime industry. The press release listed four anime titles that are set to be translated and released on DVD (and who knows, maybe via streaming or download): Toradora!, the 2008 vehicle for tsundere queen [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 4, 2010
If you’ve watched anime enough, you know what “Steam Girls” are, even if you haven’t heard the term before. “Steam Girls” refers to a time-honored anime tradition: in the obligatory “onsen episode,” the animators show a bunch of naked girls in a bath house, but cover their naughty bits with artfully placed bands of steam [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 2, 2010
Over on Kadokawa Anime’s YouTube channel, they’ve posted a trailer for the second half of Omamori Himari, or as they call it, the “Hardcore” portion of the series. According to the trailer, the already service-heavy boobs-’n’-brawls series is about to introduce the most popular character from the source material, yandere queen [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 18, 2010
The weekend’s always a busy time for anime, since so many popular shows air on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Three of the big streaming highlights were the usual shounen fare, but there are some hidden gems with a lot of potential that you should keep an eye on, too.
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 7, 2009
On a recent trip down to the Japanese used book store Book Off, I managed to snag a near-full set of the light horror manga Kaibutsu Oujo (AKA Princess Resurrection). I’ve had a mild interest in the series since 2007, when I heard about the anime, but didn’t watch it because I’ve never been a [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 23, 2009
Over on the mother site, Lisseromen has a review of one of the most emotional episodes of InuYasha: The Final Act yet. The episode, “Among the Twinkling Stars“, bids a tearful farewell to one of the series’ main characters, and there isn’t a dry eye in the house, from SideReel to the official VIZ Media [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 17, 2009
Over on our parent site SideReel, Lisseromen has posted a review of the latest InuYasha: The Final Act episode, titled “The Mausoleum of Mount Azusa.” She loves the episode, and thinks that the anime is headed in the right direction after a stumbling start.
In her words, “The plot again thickens and I could not be [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 13, 2009
First, let me get my obligatory plugs out of the way – One Piece starts an all-new, Oda-penned short story this weekend, as the anime and manga both start telling the tale of the Gold Lion before Luffy and friends face him in December’s One Piece movie.
Meanwhile, InuYasha: The Final Act seems to have found [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 9, 2009
This week marks the start of some new weekly features here on AnimeReel, and to kick things off we have Manga Mondays, where I dip into my overly large manga collection – or those of a friend, sharing is caring – and review a random manga, new or old. This week’s manga is a recent [...]
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