Laura Johnson

Kenichi Shirihama has been training hard in order to become stronger at martial arts, even going so far as to move into the RyozanPaku dojo for around-the-clock training. However, it’s tougher for him than most would expect, and even his masters agree that he has absolutely no natural aptitude or talent for fighting! Still, his determination to become a martial arts master and use his skills to pr...[Read More]

Yuri Shibuya, ruler of the Great Demon Kingdom, certainly has his hands full in this second box set of Kyo Kara Maoh. Picking up right where the last season left off, Yuri and his (incredibly handsome) retainers are searching the world for the four Forbidden Boxes, ancient relics harboring incredible power, and capable of being used as terrifying weapons of war. Containing thirty-nine complete epi...[Read More]

Yuri Shibuya is just your average Japanese high-schooler, with dark eyes and hair, but when the reluctant rescue of a classmate from some thugs results in a close encounter with a commode in the nearest ladies restroom, he is magically pulled through the water into a completely different world! Upon his arrival, he is hailed him as the “double-black” Demon King, and told that he is very definitely...[Read More]

Those wacky Straw Hat pirates are at it again, or rather, are still at it as we open into the middle of a fight with the terrible Fishman Arlong. Can they defeat these self-proclaimed supreme beings and regain Nami as their navigator? Will they ever make it to the Grand Line so they can find the One Piece? More slapstick-action and non-traditional pirate behavior abound in this fourth volume of se...[Read More]

At a roundtable conference with the Queen to discuss strategies to deal with the resurgence of the Millennium Organization (an arrogant Nazi battalion of undead), an emissary from the very enemy being plotted against drops in for a surprise announcement. It seems “the Major” had decided, after all this time, to declare war against the Hellsing Organization and all of Britain.

In this third installment of the Ultimate series, the two opposing groups of Iscariot (the Vatican-based anti-monster organization) and Hellsing (led by Sir Integra Hellsing, backed by the British Crown, and whose main operative just happens to be the most powerful vampire around) have decided to see sense and cooperate in the face of a mutual enemy. At a special meeting, it is revealed that the M...[Read More]

In this second installment of the series, it seems that the number of ghouls resulting from vampire attacks is on the rise, and none of the normal rules seem to apply. As the attacks are charted out, it also appears that they’re being organized by someone with a higher goal. To make matters worse, the Hellsing headquarters falls under attack from an invincible ghoul army led by the vampire Valenti...[Read More]

As this wildly entertaining, and surprisingly dark, series winds to a close, the mysteries deepen while each episode broadens our understanding of this changed world. After the first Gate opened, the Contractors began appearing, using their amazing powers either as government spies or assassins, but now someone plots to destroy their kind. A traitor from Hei’s past reappears and offers the hand of...[Read More]

In a changed Toyko, after the Hell Gate event, a new sort of human, the Contractors, empowered with strange abilities dependant on their repeating a ritual after using their newfound skills. According to popular knowledge, Contractors have no human emotions, but is that really the case? When a girl from Hei’s past goes to some questionable lengths to offer him a chance to join her side… This same ...[Read More]

In this stunning fourth installment of the series, we wind our stories to a close. Or, can there ever be an ending to any story? Marriage proposals said in the heat of battle turn out to have sincerity behind them, loyal subjects fight for a leader who was defeated, and the information brokers discuss the theory that a lack of recorded knowledge after an event does not mean the story stopped, or e...[Read More]

It’s a hard-scrabble life in Night town, and Hajiki Sonoda is just trying to get by with his job as a messenger; no easy task with the streets crowded with citizen and criminal alike. Sometimes you have to take the shady jobs with the legitimate ones, and Hajiki is determined to make life for his family better by saving enough money to buy back their house in a different, safer, sector. However, h...[Read More]