Laura Johnson

Blood + Volume 4

Saya is the last remaining vampire, charged with fighting the violent Chiropterans, an artificially created race bent on human extinction. However, while Saya accepts her duty, she longs for a more ‘normal’ existence, and time to spend with her adopted brothers, Kai and Riku. In this volume, Saya, her brothers, Hagi, her servant, and members of the Shield group (who research evidence and appearanc...[Read More]

Air Gear — Complete Box Set

The new craze sweeping the streets are Air Trecks, a sort of motorized two-wheeled rollerblade that allow the wearer to lean and perform insane tricks, and get a true chance to fly. Itsuki “Ikki” Minami, leader of the East Side Guns, has always longed to touch the sky, and his natural talent might just make him a King among these Storm Riders! Based on one of the best new manga of our time (by the...[Read More]

Kyo Kara Maoh! (God(?) Save our King!) – Season II vol 9

Yuri Shibuya, from Earth, has been rule of the Demon Kingdom for quite some time, but as a ceremony organized generations ago by the founding ruler nears, strange powers are escaping once again into the realm. To make matters worse, these powers seem to be assuming the form and identity of that ruler, known even these many years later as the Great One, whose powers while living were so great they ...[Read More]

Ouran High School Host Club – Part 02

The host club is back, and their up to their usual crowd-pleasing antics, but in this second volume of the series we get a much closer look at the pretty boys behind the pretty faces. (Did I mention they were pretty?) Honor student-cum-indentured servant Haruhi Fujioka seems to have completely adjusted to her life of pretending to be a boy, but this sheep among wolves may cause more problems with ...[Read More]

Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor – The Complete Series

Sho Fukamachi is a normal high-schooler…or at least he was until he and his best friend discover a strange device: a Guyver unit. When Sho accidentally activates it, the unit bonds to his body and covers him with a highly-responsive armor. Now Show must fight for his life using the awesome powers now at his disposal, as the Chronos organization has every Zoanoid on the alert to take back the Guyve...[Read More]

Baccano! – vol 1

In what can only be described as wacky confusion told in a high spirited sense of mayhem, the cast of Baccano is a bigger-than-average slice of the 1930s underworld, and everyone’s a main character. From mob enforcers to freelancing psychopaths, all aboard the good train Flying Pussyfoot for a night of action you’ll never forget! However, in a mix-up this big, you can trust the nuts in charge not ...[Read More]

Darker Than Black – vol 3

In a changed Tokyo, after the calamitous even of the Hell Gate, society lives entirely within protective walls and under a false sky, but there are those that still dream of the stars while they struggle to maintain their humanity. When the Hell Gate opened, some new power entered the world and touched humans, changing them forever. Contractors are offered a pact: gain a strange offensive power in...[Read More]

Darker Than Black – vol 2

In the current world, the visible sky of stars that doesn’t so much light up the night as correspond with the actions of Contractors, changed humans who gain an awesome power, at a very specific Price. These immoral killers operate just below the surface of the world, and most people are unaware of their existence, despite their acceptance of the changing of the night sky and the dangerous area th...[Read More]

Xenosaga: The animation – The Complete Collection

In a futuristic reality, long after humanity has abandoned Earth, the fate of our entire race hangs entirely on a KOS-MOS, a battle android designed to fight the Gnosis. This strange alien race seems bent on destroying anything between them and their goal of obtaining the Zohar, a mysterious monolith containing untold power. As the Gnosis attacks become more frequent, KOS-MOS’ creator must decide ...[Read More]

Le Chevalier D’Eon – The Complete Series

An intriguing mystery set in pre-revolutionary France, Le Chevalier D’Eon follows a young knight, D’Eon de Beaumont as he follows a twisted path of murder, magic, and political manipulation to discover the motive and means behind the death of his sister, Lia. Lia, it seems, was in the process of recovering some very powerful and important words whose very knowledge imbues superhuman powers: The Ro...[Read More]

Case Closed – Season 4

Jimmy Kudo is, as always, right in the middle of the action in this fourth season box set. Jimmy, actually an ace teen detective, was poisoned by a mysterious group he believes was out to end his life. Luckily, the poison didn’t manage to kill him, but it did transform his body into that of his childhood, so he now solves mysteries under the name Conan Edogawa.

Ghost Hunt – Complete Series – Part 02

In this second installment of the Ghost Hunt series, the cases are more dangerous than ever, and obviously the toughest ones Shibuya Psychic Research has ever faced. Be it murderous dolls threatening small children, or a curse that has long outlived its originator, Shibuya Psychic Research is on the case!