Eyes with the coldness of silver… Claymore is the title humans have designated for an organization of women who are half yoma who are hired mercenaries to track and kill yoma throughout the lands. Known as silver-eyed witches, these elite fighters are the only beings capable of detecting a yoma when it has taken on a human form. The anime Claymore follows the story of one such hunter named Clare....[Read More]
Who knew Heaven was a place on Earth? But for college student Keiichi Morisato, it’s become his everyday life. Living with three goddesses is too much for any mortal man to ask for, let alone having a contract with one to be your girlfriend forever! Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy is the second TV series in the AMG franchise and starts off focusing largely on the daily life of Keiichi and Bellda...[Read More]
Heavy are the prices we pay… The day the Elric brothers lost their mother is a day they will both never forget, and the day she came back is the burden they’ll forever bear. After training hard, Edward Elric has finally become an acknowledged state alchemist and the brothers fall into one grim mission after another at the behest of Roy Mustang and the Furor. But all the while they are searching ...[Read More]
It was only suppose to be a three-hour tour… But when Rokuro Okajima runs afoul of the transport group Black Lagoon, his whole life and everything he thought he knew about the world is turned upside-down. His employers threw him to the wolves to take their illicit dealings to the grave, but thanks to that good old Japanese fighting spirit, Rokuro (soon nicknamed “Rock”) sticks his finger to his e...[Read More]
A boy, a talking ermine, and Chupacabra. Negima?! Re-imagined & Uncut is an entirely different series from the original Negima anime. Negi Springfield has just graduated wizard school at the prodigious age of ten, and is given his assignment to work abroad at his studies far away from his home of Wales in the land of the Rising Sun. Upon arriving at Mahora in Japan, Negi and his familiar Chamo, a ...[Read More]
What was that? A ghost? No, it’s the “scary girl” Sunako Nakahara, who was thrown into boarding in her auntie’s house with four radiant creatures (as she calls them). Kyohei Takano, Takenaga Oda, Yukinojo (Yuki), and Ranmaru Morii are pretty much the fab four at their high school, and girls scream and claw to be near them. They’ve been given the chance to live in the Landlady’s mansion totally fre...[Read More]
One small step… A group of good childhood friends started a harmless “secret society” as kids in the late 1960’s to solidify their bonds. They, like all kids, thought they could band together and spent every day boyishly dreaming of saving the world from space aliens and monsters. Now, the guys are in their late thirties and have forgotten those innocent daydreams and ambitions of changing the wor...[Read More]
Love hurts. It hurts a lot. Such is the way of life for young would-be college student Keitaro Urashima when he comes to live as the manager of his grandmother’s all-girls dormitory/hot spring while preparing for his college entrance exams to Tokyo University. And although Keitaro has a lot of trouble getting into school, it’s no trouble at all for him to get in hot water with a house full of gir...[Read More]
The streets of Tokyo shall run red. Black Lagoon: Second Barrage is the story following the exploits of trade runners based out of China’s seedy underworld. The crew of the Black Lagoon—Revy, Rock, Dutch, and Benny—are willing to transport just about anything from smuggled goods to smuggled people for the right price and for anyone. Usually called on by Balalaika, head of the Russian mob in China...[Read More]
Coyotes don’t travel in packs. But they do band together for a common goal, and Mister is the top dog. With just ten days to go, he makes a daring prison break with the help of his friends Bishop and Katana in an explosive array of chaos created by the Twelve Sisters of Madame Marciano. This kicks off the bloody, action-packed race toward Planet Graceland, where a huge sum of money stolen by Pira...[Read More]
Do longer eyelashes really make things cuter? In Sasami’s case, the answer would be a definite yes. Sasami: Magical girls Club is a new take on an old favorite alternate story from the famed Tenchi Muyo series. The story follows Sasami Iwakura, an energetic fifth grader with a joyful heart and the most adorable pigtails this side of Sailor Moon. Awakened to magical powers within her, she meets ot...[Read More]
A drop of blood, pool of water, dollop of magic, and stir to taste. That is the recipe for making a vampire, apparently, according to Karin Marker’s youthful grandmother Elda. After all the years of head scratching, the Marker family has finally discovered a way to make their cheerful middle daughter, Karin, a full vampire. Never again can they be embarrassed that Karin produces blood rather than ...[Read More]