| 6:48pm | Anime Review: Evangelion 1.01 – You Are (Not) Alone |  | | | An event known as “Second Impact” changed the world when a massive explosion in the arctic melted the polar ice caps and flooded over Japan. Fifteen years later, Tokyo-3 has rebuilt itself as a retractable underground city, and a whole new generation of kids has been born and raised in the... |
| 6:16pm | Manga Review: The Lizard Prince (vol. 1) | | | | The Lizard Prince tells the story of Canary, a young princess who has been betrothed to Heath, the prince of a nearby kingdom. But Heath is a real jerk, and he has no desire to wed the girl. So he conjures up a plan to mess with the girl’s head. Heath has a pet talking lizard. With a little bit... |
| 5:54pm | Anime Review: Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk | | | | Based off of the classic arcade game from Bandai-Namco, Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk is the tale of wannabe hero Jil. Sixty years after the Tower of Druaga was defeated, it has once again returned to the Uruk Kingdom. But fortunately for the people of Uruk, the Summer of Anu approaches, which... |
| 6:10pm | Manga Review: The Ghost in the Shell | | | | Watch out, America, there’s a new manga company in town. Kodansha is the largest publisher in Japan and puts out some of the country’s most popular manga magazines like Morning, Nakayoshi, and Weekly Shonen Magazine. They shook up the American manga industry five years ago by going into... |
| 6:13pm | An Exclusive Look at “Oblivion Island” | | | | What ever happened to all those old toys and doodads you had when you were a kid? Doesn’t it feel like they have just simply vanished off of the face of the Earth? That is the premise behind the latest anime movie from Production I.G., Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror. As a child,... |
| 6:52pm | Anime Review: Dragonaut: The Resonance (Part 1) | | | | Dragonaut: The Resonance is the sci-fi story of Jin Kamishima, a boy who has felt alone in the world after surviving a space shuttle accident that killed the rest of his family. Suddenly one day, he discovers Toa, a beautiful and powerful pink-haired babe that has sworn to protect him and stay by his... |
| 6:13pm | Book Review: Sayonara, Mr. Fatty! | | | | Like most people, I made just one New Years Resolution last January: 2009 was going to be the year I was going to get in shape!I had gained a lot of weight from college, and I’ve kept it on for the few years since graduation. I was six feet tall and 238 pounds. So my goal was to be under 200 by... |
| 6:13pm | Book Review: Sayonara, Mr. Fatty! | | | | Like most people, I made just one New Years Resolution last January: 2009 was going to be the year I was going to get in shape!I had gained a lot of weight from college, and I’ve kept it on for the few years since graduation. I was six feet tall and 238 pounds. So my goal was to be under 200 by... |
| 5:19pm | Manga Review: Deka Kyoshi (vol 1) | | | | Detective Toyama is assigned to investigate the apparent suicide of an elementary school teacher. He goes undercover as a teacher himself and fills in for the victim’s class of fifth grade students. He is determined to find out if the suicide was just that, or if there was any foul play was involved... |
| 4:51pm | Anime Review: Blassreiter (Part 1) | | | | In a fictional modern day Germany, a new terror has emerged as bio-mechanical zombies called “Demoniacs” reek havoc on the unsuspecting masses. The XAT, Xenogenesis Assault Team, fight the Demoniacs in an attempt to keep the people safe and to figure out where these monsters are coming from.... |
| 4:56pm | Interview: How Vertical Owned the NYAF | | | | In an effort of oversimplifying everything I do, I tend to find one anime or manga company to point out in a blog post and declare my clear “winner” of every major convention I go to. Past winners have included Yen Press at the New York Comic Con in 2008, Bandai Entertainment in Otakon 08... |
| 5:16pm | Anime Review: Welcome to the NHK | | | | After a summer of amazing anime and with a packed November quickly approaching, FUNimation has been pretty sparse as far as October new releases go. A good bulk of the review units coming in lately have been either re-releases or re-releases of previous re-releases for the anime giant. So rather than... |
| 5:04pm | AKB48 - Cute Girls in the City | | | | In the top floor area of the historical Webster Hall venue in downtown New York City, a sold out house of anime and music fans wait patiently for a show to begin. It is the weekend of the New York Anime Festival, and on this Sunday evening, the fans are showing fatigue from days worth of events. Upon... |
| 4:34pm | Manga Review: Oh! My Brother (vol. 1) | | | | Masago has the best older brother a girl could ask for. Shiro is popular. He’s goofy. He’s good looking. He’s the head of his student council. But most of all, he’s a kind boy and loves his little sister dearly. But his niceness and his love ultimately leads to his death as he... |
| 5:01pm | Peter Tarara and the Merging of New York Cons | | | | Three weeks ago, Reed Exhibitions announced that they would be merging the New York Anime Festival and the New York Comic Con for one major convention in 2010. The next day, I posted an editorial about my disappointment over the news. I felt that when the two conventions merged, we would be losing one... |
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