Tanaka Yukio, better known by his nickname Koyuki is a 14 year old who feels disconnected from life in general. He leads a pretty normal, lousy teenager life until, through the act of saving a mismatched dog, he meets guitarist Minami Ryuusuke, and becomes involved in Ryuusuke's new band BECK. Koyuki's life starts to change as the band struggles towards fame. Even girls start to like him. Maybe life isn't so crummy after all.
Being released by Funimation in July 2007, we predict that Beck will skyrocket to the top pick for every teen/tween (emo or not!), and will very likely become a regular part of Adult Swim. Read More...
Below: The opening titles for Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.
Every once in a while, something comes along that is simply so mind-blowing, it reaffirms why you got into anime in the first place. No expense was spared to make KPM a breathtakingly gorgeous piece of work. Carefully rendered and well-animated, each scene is astounding to behold. Along with an engaging plotline that moves at breakneck speed as well as eerie moody music, the entire package makes for one of the best anime series to come along in quite a while.
Set one hundred years in the future, Kurau Amane is the daughter of a scientist on the moon who's been experimenting on the revolutionary, newly discovered "Rynax" energy. Read More...
The comedy-adventure Mars Daybreak takes place in the future, when Mars has somehow been covered by oceans (those terra-formers did the job a little too well!)
Life on Mars is hard for those who live here. As the economy worsens, work becomes scarce and food becomes expensive and highly prized. Cheerful ne'er-do-well Gram River can't find a job in the collapsing Martian economy. When he falls into the sea while escaping from a heist, he lands in a conveniently placed "RB", a sophisticated underwater mecha. A natural pilot, Gram fights off his pursuers — and joins the pirates aboard the Ship of Aurora. Read More...
And now for something completely different. We mean it. This series is so whacked out, you'd swear the creator was insane and on drugs all at the same time. I mean, we're talking about a guy who fights people with his NOSE HAIR!!!!! It is sheer, utter nonsense and easily one of the funniest things ever aired on TV. Don't try and make sense of it, you'll just get a migraine.
Bobobo does indeed have a basic premise, although, like the show itself it's completely off-the-wall. Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo takes place in the year 300X, when a tyrannical emperor, Czar Baldy Bald 4th, seeks to prove his authority over the people by waging a "Hair Hunt," aimed at taking the hair of all the citizenry. Read More...
Hash Animation Master started life as an Amiga program (software that was around probably before most of you reading these words were even born), and if you don't know what an Amiga Computer is, Google it, and prepare to be impressed. Nowadays, however, this software supports Windows 2000, XP, Mac OS 9.2 or OS X 10.3.4 or greater.
Hash Animation Master contains many easy to use tools that, although seemingly simple are enormously powerful, and therein lies the elegance of the entire package. For a mere $200, you're getting an animation software package that should be costing thousands. Visit their website and go through the tutorials to see just how powerful this software suite is. Read More...
Not just another run- of-the-mill wavy-haired psyonic story, Terra He is a classic, epic tale told over the span of an entire generation, boasting one of the most complex plotlines in all of anime history. Created by legendary manga artist Keiko Takemiya, but heavily based on A.E. Van Vogt's groundbreaking SF novel SLAN, the tale is nothing less than the life and death struggle of the entire human race as they evolve, leading to a clash between the "normal humans" and the "Mu" (mutants), which have developed telepathic and telekinetic powers. Read More...
Special Publisher's Note: Seen below is my prized copy of Terra He (To Terra) which I purchased around 1980, and I have to say all five volumes of this manga are a personal treasure to me. In my humble opinion you can't call yourself an anime fan unless you have this manga in your collection.
Best-selling author Christopher Hart continues his highly-successful drawing series with a wonderful and unique addition for budding manga and anime artists with Drawing Animals Made Amazingly Easy.
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Are you paranoid yet? Have you seen Lil' Slugger? Or is it all just a wild, disturbing delusion from a has-been toy designer? Satoshi Kon's Paraonia Agent is a beautifully unusual series that omits traditional anime stereotypes, and the soundtrack is no exception. Read More...
The latest anime meme sweeping the net is the opening title sequence for Lucky Star. Lucky Star which started life as a manga, then became a video game and is now an anime show (which went on the air in April):
