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Manga-A-Day 19 – BLAME! v3 Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

And here's today's installment of Killy and Cibo's (not-so-)merry adventures through the nameless megastructure. They actually spend a fair bit of time among other people this time around, and in a neat reversal of the prior volume, where Killy was a midget amongst ...


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Manga-A-Day 18 – BLAME! v2 Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Continuing on in much the same fashion, we see Killy continue to explore the mysterious megastructure for people containing a particular gene, working his way through several environments, and running into more creative uses of the genetic manipulation/mutation that is running rampant throughout. Midway through, we get a ...


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DVD-A-Day 17 – Bakuretsu Tenshi Infinity OVA Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Okay, that wasn't what I was expecting it to be. For some reason I thought this was a somewhat longer piece proffered as an alternate ending to the series, rather than the mid-series side story episode that it actually looks to be. Which thoroughly confused me, as its been so ...


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Manga-A-Day 17 – BLAME! v1 Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

A dark, violent, and utterly alien cybernetic dystopia, where no one can remember what the ground or the sky are like and new horrors lurk around every corner. Exactly the sort of setting, storytelling, and characters I love, I really should have read this ages ago, and started to at ...


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Manga-A-Day 8 – Dogs 0 Prelude Saturday, May 30th, 2009

New acquisition! I'd completely forgotten this was coming out, and so was pleasantly surprised to see it sitting on the shelf at Borders this afternoon. When I was actively following scanlations of Tenjou Tenge, this was constantly sitting off to the side of the translator's site staring ...


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Manga-A-Day 7 – All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Hrm, even given its thinness, that was pretty much less of everything than I was expecting. I've never gotten around to either the OVA or the TV series, but with an android female in the lead, its one of those things that is almost automatically on my radar. ...


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Manga-A-Day 6 – Gunparade March v3 Friday, May 29th, 2009

So, how well does the series finish? The interesting thing about our hero didn't really get any play, an unexpected threat shows up, sacrifices are made, the day is saved, and everything works out in the end. All things considered, a fairly generic tale with a couple underutilized ...


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Manga-A-Day 5 – Gunparade March v2 Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

As noted previously, we're continuing with cautious optimism here. While things start off fairly light, with a hunt for food and then preparation of the inevitably bad cooking when the wrong ingredient is used, but then we spiral rapidly downward with the inevitable character death (hey, it is ...


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Manga-A-Day 4 – Gunparade March v1 Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

The character designs/artwork that I've seen for Gunparade March, and more specifically the anime, have always intrigued me, so, when Big Brain Comics started a huge manga sale a couple weeks ago ($20 for as much manga as you can stuff into a bag, the source of much ...



Double Feature Night. Friday, May 15th, 2009

So, a long, long day before watching the new Star Trek (again) with my little brother and his girlfriend, followed by finally watching Chocolate after I got home. As these are the first movies I'm covering, I think it'll be fair to point out that I'm rarely, ...