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Manga Review

Nodame Cantabile Vol. 1 – Manga Review

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Nodame Cantabile is probably one of my top (if not the top) anime of Winter 2007. I bought the manga since I really enjoyed the anime. I finally got a chance to read it on an airplane, which I can ride, and Chiaki can’t! Ha ha.

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Anime Manga

Anime Rule #142: Band-Aids Heal Everything

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One of my favorite web comics is VG Cats, though the updates are seriously way too few and far between. I guess Scott Ramsoomair is a fan of anime, so sometimes the comics will be about anime, and not video games.

In a recent (relatively, at least) comic, Scott tackles the widely known anime rule that band-aids heal everything. Not just minor cuts and scrapes, but everything. I actually think that it’s the band-aids in conjunction with sleep that will heal everything.

When you think about it, it’s not really so far-fetched. I mean, if Usopp can survive a direct hit to the head from some blunt object (I think it was a hammer), who’s to say he can’t be healed with bandages and sleep? This phenomenon is also seen in a bunch of other shounen anime like Naruto and Bleach.

Now, if they had only applied the band-aids correctly to Haruka Suzumiya, maybe things would’ve turned out better…

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Anime DVD Review

Kurau Phantom Memory Between Two Worlds Vol. 1 – Anime DVD Review

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Kurau Phantom Memory is an anime that went completely unnoticed by me when it aired in 2004. Luckily, I just got a screener of it from ADV, so I can enjoy some Kurau-y goodness.

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Anime Figures Manga

Wizzywig – Anime Store Review?

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So during my trip to the University of Michigan, I was walking around and came across an anime store called “Wizzywig.” It’s like a play on words of the pronunciation of the acronym, WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). I had actually seen the store’s website a really long time ago, and I knew they were in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but I didn’t know they were that close to my hotel! I had to take a visit and see what the store was all about.

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Anime DVD Review

Samurai 7 Box Set – Anime DVD Review

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I’ve never watched the original Seven Samurai film by Akira Kurosawa, but I did watch the first episode of Samurai 7 a long time ago on fansub. Just recently I got the complete box set to review from Funimation. While I would’ve liked to see more ninjas, a samurai is fine too.

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Anime DVD Review

Kino’s Journey Vol. 1: Idle Adventurer – Anime DVD Review

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Since I enjoyed the Kino no Tabi light novel from Tokyopop, I figured I’d pick up the anime from that one crazy RightStuf sale. I was afraid that the DVD would suffer from the “book is better than the movie” syndrome, but surprisingly it didn’t.

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Light Novel Review

Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 1 – Light Novel Review

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Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator continues the “Faulkner lite” reading that the first Boogiepop Phantom novel started. We get new characters, new villains, and even a new Boogiepop!

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Manga Review

Lunar Legend Tsukihime Vol. 1 – Manga Review

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Lunar Legend Tsukihime is that one game from TYPE-MOON that got turned into an anime, and later a manga. I had this manga on my Amazon.com wishlist for a while, but it never found its way into my shopping cart. There were a lot of requests to review this manga in my post about my legendary backlog, so here we go!

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Anime DVD Review

Wandaba Style Vol. 1 – Anime DVD Review

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A long, long time ago, I saw the first few episodes of Wandaba Style on fansub. After it got licensed, the one group who was subbing it stopped. I really liked the anime, though I sorta forgot about it for a while. When I saw it in the crazy ADV sale, I figured I’d get the whole series for $15 and give it a shot again.

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Manga Review

Death Note Vol. 3 – Manga Review

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In the last volume of Death Note, we saw Light get super paranoid because he discovered that his room was full of cameras! Ryuk’s not happy either, because he can’t eat apples anymore. Damn that L!!!