Gladys Nickles

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, part 1

A tale of two brothers—the same old song and dance? Not quite.

Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino

Brothers, sisters, and a trail of blood.

Claymore, the Complete Series

Death gazes on with silver eyes. Vicious monsters known as Yoma ravage a medieval world, terrorizing the human race as they hunt down and devour any and every human in their wake. A highly specialized organization has been established to create an army of female mercenaries, infused with Yoma blood, to hunt and kill the Yoma. Clare is one such warrior, a Claymore, alienated from the rest of hum...[Read More]

Shonen Onmyouji, The Complete Series

A boy and his shikigami are seldom parted. Abe no Seimei was Japan’s greatest onmyouji and kept the land safe from demonic incursions. He passed on his spiritual skills on to his son and grandsons, and named his youngest grandson, Abe no Masahiro, his heir. However, Masahiro had a problem—due to the lack of need for onmyoudo skills in recent years, he had lost his sixth sense and his ability to...[Read More]

Kimi ni Todoke, volume 1

Don’t look into her eyes… Poor Sawako Kuronuma just can’t seem to make any friends, no matter how hard she tries. Her naturally creepy appearance has had kids calling her Sadako (the evil character from “The Ring”) for so long that she can’t even remember the last time someone called her by her real name. That is, till the most well-liked boy in her class, Shota Kazehaya, extends an olive branc...[Read More]

Beast Master, volume 1

T’was beauty that tamed the beast. Yuiko Kubozuka was an outlier as far as high school girls go—she’d rather waste her time trying to befriend animals and suffering their scorn than pursuing the opposite sex. This is a constant old tease from her classmates. Then she chanced to meet the wild-looking young man Leo Aoi when looking for her neighbor’s pet cat. Bloody and wild-eyed, he looked more ...[Read More]

Dragon Ball, Season Two

Military might with a bow on top. After the great dragon Shen Long was summoned back in season one, Goku and Bulma find that now they have to repeat the process all over again. The dragon balls have scattered to random locations all over the world, but the tenacious Bulma won’t stop till she gets her wish and Goku wants his grandfather’s four-star ball back. However, once again, they aren’t alo...[Read More]

Dragon Ball, Season One

Before there were Super Saiyans there was one small boy. Son Goku was the most cheerful and most freakishly strong boy an old man could raise. After finding him abandoned as a baby, Son Gohan, a kindly old martial artist, took the boy in and raised him as a grandson. After the death of his grandfather, Goku continues to go about his daily life in the wilds while keeping his grandfather’s most p...[Read More]

Samurai Champloo,The Complete Collection

Bust a move, Mr. Samurai. This ain’t your granddad’s chanbara drama (samurai period show). Full of hip-hop pop cultural influence, Samurai Champloo is the winding story of Fuu (a klutzy waitress), Jin (a wandering ronin/former samurai), and Mugen (a wild and rambling swordsman). Through a twist of fate, Jin and Mugen find themselves at the beginning of our story pulled into the mix as a bunch of ...[Read More]

Black Lagoon, the complete box set

A motley crew and questionable business practices. Black Lagoon revolves around the Lagoon Company, a ragtag group of pirates who deal in running errands and shipping “goods” for the various mafia groups inhabiting the streets of Roanapur, Thailand. The story begins when the crew of the Black Lagoon takes mild-mannered salary man Rokuro Okajima hostage in exchange for company secrets from his b...[Read More]

xxxHolic, The Complete Series

Wishes, desires, and bad luck. For all of Kimihiro Watanuki’s young life, he has been plagued with the ability to see and be effected by spirits all around him. All he wanted to do was live a mostly normal high school student’s life and get closer to his adorable classmate Himawari. In a stroke of luck that’s either good or bad (depending on your viewpoint), Watanuki finds himself stumbling int...[Read More]

The Slayers: The Complete First Three Seasons

She goes boom, boom, boom. The Slayers all began with an underdeveloped sorceress, Lina Inverse, and her quest for fame and fortune. After thinking he saved her from some revenge-seeking bandits, Gourry Gabriev joins her as her self-proclaimed protector. It’s only Lina’s misfortune that his wit isn’t as sharp as his skills with a sword. From there, the two set out looking for rare treasures and s...[Read More]