Blu-ray & DVD Review: Rome: The Complete Series
Book Review: Battle Royale
Manga Review: Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 21
Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 21
President Bradley is the target for an assassination plot. The State Alchemist and the Orders have all been decided, rebels against the Government. Ed and Al have been separated, but are reunited by unpleasant means.
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Manga Review: Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka volume 6
Naoki Urasawa takes on the beloved icon Astro Boy in the new 8 volume set Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka. He explores an arch that dealt with Robot programing, why create an ultimate robot, and then limit its abilities with Human limitation and protective limitations or protocols. Pluto is presented as a detective murder mystery and spends the majority of the series following a Europol Detective, Gesicht, who also happen to be considered the most advanced robot alive.
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DVD Review: Evangelion 1.01: You Are (Not) Alone
Evangelion 1.01: You Are (Not) Alone
Episodes 1-6 banded together to make a theatrical version, with remastered work using new ways of expression. Evangelion is planned to be released in four parts, with this 1.01 being the first installment. 14-year-old Shinji has been chosen to pilot the synthetic humanoid Evangelion Unit-01. His dad is the one in charge of NERV, but doesn't show much emotion to the fact that his son has a great chance of getting killed while piloting.
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Manga Review: GoGo Monster
GoGo Monster
"There's a face in the water drop…"
Yuki Tachibana is in the first grade. He doesn't have many friends, only the gardener and one of the "Others," who Yuki calls Super Star. A new Transfer student named Makoto Suzuki becomes the only student in Yuki's class that actually talks to him, and eventually gets into his mind and brings him to reality.
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Supernatural In Review: The Road So Far…
The Road So Far…
"Changing Channels" had so much potential, yet failed to meet it. First of all, the actor who played the Trickster got lied to… that hair dye is not doing him any favors. Secondly, the jokes were a bit predictable. The soap opera in particular was extremely overdone. "Dr. Sexy?" I mean seriously. Everyone, including soap fans themselves, can appreciate soap opera jokes, but that was a bit over the top. In the end we got a mediocre attempt to be funny with some weak foreshadowing tacked onto the end.
DVD Review: Zorro- The Complete First and Second Seasons
In 2001, to honor Walt Disney's 100th birthday, the studio teamed up with film critic/historian Leonard Maltin to release a series of "Treasures" of early works culled from their extensive archives. Each subject gets a deluxe DVD set in a fancy tin case, with little collectibles and a numbered certificate of authenticity. Each set is introduced by Maltin who explains a little of the history and context of the presentation, and includes a disc of extras relating to the "making of" and background info. Three or four titles get the treatment on a roughly annual basis, and now they have worked their way up to Zorro- The Complete First and Second Seasons.