Tokko holds no punches whatsoever whether it is the manga or the anime. I felt like I was watching another JJ Abrams piece of work. Tokko grabs you by the balls from the get go and you are going wherever its creator, Tohru Fujisawa of GTO and Rose Hip Zero, wants you to go.
To the normal everyday citizens, Tokyo is just being rocked by frequent earthquakes and waves of violent crimes. Nothing too extraordinary, pretty normal. Ranmaru knows it's not true; something else happened at the Machida Apartments 5 years ago that is now spreading to all of Tokyo. Something, not someone, is ripping people up into shreds and Ranmaru is going to find that something. He's going to make it pay for killing his parents and the other 380 lives that were lost that day. Read More...
I love this new spin on vampires! Kawii!! If this DVD was a teddy bear, it would be huge and fuzzy and extra-huggable! Yeah, the usual words that associate themselves with vampires would not be fuzzy and huggable but for Karin, it works.
Karin is an un-vampire. Instead of sucking blood, embarrassingly, she discharges blood. She was a simple vampire child before: grow up like a regular human, hit puberty, turn into a bloodsucker, very simple, very normal. Somewhere along the way though, she turned into a mutant. So now, instead of feeling the urge to suck blood, she gets the urge to inject blood. Read More...
Once upon a time there was a show called "Lost In Space", which, much later, became "Star Trek: Voyager", except that Lost in Space knew it was vapid and cartoonish, while Voyager took itself too seriously.
Vandread follows the Voyager formula: two groups hostile to one another are suddenly thrown into another part of the universe and have to work together to find their way home. However, the two groups that are hostile enemies in this case are "males" and "females". Read More...
Crashing through the sky, comes the fearful cry... COBRA (cobra!) COBRA (cobra!) Armies of the night, evil taking flight... COBRA (cobra!) COBRA (cobra!) Anyhow, the movie does get pretty silly when the battle cry turns into Cobra-lalalalalalala, but we're more than willing to put up with it to see old-chrome-dome get turned into a full-fledged snake, and even Don Johnson does a half decent job as Lt. Falcon (but he's way overshadowed by Sgt. Slaughter).
With all the buzz over the Live-Action film coming out this summer, we at anime.com feel nostalgic for the *real* GIJOE movie -- the one that starts with that amazing piece of music, that action-filled battle sequence (in which nobody ever gets hurt), and some of the classiest animation ever to be put to the screen. Read More...
You can celebrate the long overdue Bandai release of the Lucky Star OVA with this Konata Izumi Summer School Uniform Action Figure which ships in August. This fully posable action figure features Konata Izumi in all her lacadasically energetic glory — although if you get tired of Konata there's extra included head part that magically turns her into her cousin, Yutaka Kobayakawa! Available from our friends at Jbox.com.
Princess Ruruna, of the Kingdom of Kod, has a problem. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod's humongous fruit-selling empire, and she is swamped by paperwork and information overload. A mysterious book, sent by her father, contains needed information as well as Tico the fairy. Tico, and the supernatural book are going to help Princess Ruruna solve her problems with the power of *the database*. (ta-dah!) Read More...
Next to MegaTokyo, AppleGeeks is my favorite webcomic. As you might guess from the title, our main character, Hawk (who appears to be the alter-ego of the artist/creator), has a fetish for all material from the cult of Steve Jobs, AKA Apple Computer. Read More...
We know that anime and manga are popular in Japan. But why are anime and manga also popular OUTSIDE Japan?
As anime and manga are both based on "westernized" entertainment forms, and tell stories through visual imagery that break language barriers, they also slyly bring with them many portions of Japanese culture and also make statements about the culture clash of east and west without the viewer or reader ever being aware of any of what's going on behind the scenes. Read More...
Below is nicely done mini-documentary from YouTube that shows off the studio behind the anime series True Tears. The video starts off by showing off the real world town that True Tears, but then quickly moves to show the animators in action:
Below are some cute stills from a Japanese pizza commercial from the j-pop group Buono! You can read the full article at fanboy.com:
