Laura Johnson

3 years ago, both the Duke and Duchess Phantomhive perished in a horrible and mysterious fire, and their young heir, Ciel, disappeared without a trace.  Two years later, Ciel Phantomhive has returned and taken up his parents' work, both with their toy company (Funtom) and in secret service to the Queen, rooting out and dealing [harshly] with troublemakers in London's seedy underworld.  However, al...[Read More]

Inspired by the Alice in Wonderland comes this intricate mystery concerning the disappearance of Oz Vesallius.  At his coming of age ceremony, from which his noble father is absent, a group of red-cloaked assailants calling themselves the “Citizens of Baskerville” condemn him for unnamed sins and send the young aristocrat spiraling into the Abyss, a strange realm populated with broken toys and fri...[Read More]

  Six months after the disappearance of his older brother Rin, Shin Kanzato is left behind to look after his troubled younger brother, Jun, as well as investigate the mystery left behind regarding the Reverse Cases.  In this second half of the Persona:  Trinity Soul series (a spinoff from the Persona 3 game for PS2), all mysteries are revealed and the final decision must be made on whether or not ...[Read More]

On the fateful night when ace teen detective Jimmy Kudo was attacked by two mysterious strangers and forced to ingest a poison, he was on a date with his sweetheart Rachel Moore at a popular theme park. Now, when a horrific murder has shocked Rachel into amnesia, he must solve the mystery as quickly as possible before the murderer returns to eliminate her as a loose end. As Rachel tries to recover...[Read More]

Jimmy Kudo is just your average high-school detective: brilliant, popular, and on the fast track to success. Even the police department don’t hesitate to call him in on their toughest cases! However, when an attempt to thwart a crime (while on a date with his probably-sweetheart Rachel Moore) finds him at odds with a mysterious duo, they poison him to eliminate witnesses. Fortunately, the poison w...[Read More]

Based on the video game(s) of the same name, Devil May Cry is the ultimate payoff for those of us who greatly enjoyed the sardonic humor of the game, but are too busy to devote hours to puzzle-solving and random battles.  Dante, the sword-swinging, gun-wielding, but-kicking proprietor of Devil May Cry detective agency, lives a day-to-day existence like anyone else:  ordering pizza on an ever-growi...[Read More]

It’s more wacky adventure on the high seas as the Straw Hat Pirates continue their adventures on the Grand Line. Their newest mission? Protecting Princess Vivi until she can be safely delivered to her homeland of Alabasta, preferably before Crocodile, the leader of the elite assassin group Baroque Works, can completely destroy her kingdom. With enemies on all sides, who has time for the minor anno...[Read More]

Ten years after Hell’s Gate appeared in Tokyo, a final confrontation has come to light: Whether the Pandora organization will be able to destroy the gate (and with it, the remarkably changed and empowered humans known as Contractors), or whether Evening Primrose will be able to convince the Black Reaper to use his own strange power to avert disaster. Unfortunately, Hei’s own past with Amber and th...[Read More]

Tatsuhiro Sato has problems. As a NEET (a term meaning “Not in Employment, Education or Training”, in short: Unemployed and not doing anything about it), life isn’t very exciting, but when you toss in being a hikikomori (essentially a person who becomes a shut-in as a result of social anxiety), it becomes an effort just to make it to the corner store for groceries! However, a strange girl promises...[Read More]

When the Kannagi family, a family blessed by the spirits of fire and able to wield this element as magic, learns that a former member, cast out for his inability to control flame, has returned to town, it is cause for some speculation. Kazuma was a failure at fire magic, but it seems that he has not only renamed himself (Kazuma Yagami), but has also learned to control wind magic (something no Kann...[Read More]

Monkey D. Luffy and the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates (Sanji, the chain-smoking cook, Usopp the Liar, resident mechanic (and, well, liar), Nami the navigator, and Roronoa Zoro the swordsman), are at it again in this first installment of the second season. Featuring episodes 54-66 of this long-running series, we encounter everything from dragons to bounty hunters, including a brief run-in with the ...[Read More]

An unstoppable gunslinging killing machine known as Beyond the Grave is mercilessly hunting down members of a criminal organization known as Millenion, intent on their complete destruction. He seems to be working his way up to the top, perhaps to murder the boss, “Bloody” Harry McDowell? But what drives this man to such lengths? Is it revenge he seeks, or is he merely aggressively protecting someo...[Read More]