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Urusei Yatsura - 157

Urusei Yatsura – 157

うる星やつら episode 157 (TV anime) Urusei Yatsura Ep. 157 review SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: A hospitalized teen girl named Nozomi sees a boy running down the street daily and though she does not know his name, she dreams of him and his energetic, cheerful way and wants to speak with him if only once. She knits a

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Mobile Suit Gundam - 31

Mobile Suit Gundam – 31

機動戦士ガンダム /Kido Senshi Gundam episode 31 Mobile Suit Gundam – 31 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Bright and Mirai receive their orders to launch While Base as a decoy 2-hours ahead of the Tianem Fleet, which actually heads to Luna II.  Joining the crew is Lt. Sleggar Law, who loves the ladies. Char boards the Zanzibar to pursue

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Girls of Akamatsu-sensei

A Translated Debate on Manga between Manga-ka Ken AKAMATSU and Manga Editor Kentaro TAKEKUMA

A Translated Debate on Manga between Manga-ka Ken AKAMATSU and Manga Editor Kentaro TAKEKUMA 2chan.us has been allowed to translate a debate from February 2011 between managa-ka AKAMATSU Ken-sensei (Love Hina, Negima!) and manga editor TAKEKUMA Kentaro-san.  Part 1 and part 2 of the debate have been translated with three more parts still to go.

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Wolverine — Looking at the 1982 Comic Book the Recent Anime was Based On (and guess what Marvel used in the text?)

My blog is an anime/manga blog with the occasional look at Japanese culture.  Today, I’m going to take a small departure from the norm and go back to the 4-issue 1982 Wolverine comic book series from Marvel, from whence the 2011 Wolverine anime used as a foundation. Since I don’t own the original four comic

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X-Men – 03

X-Men 03 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: The X-Men, having found sleep capsules containing Hisako as well as Emma Frost, whom Cyclops saw manipulating Phoenix before she took her life, are released by Beast after Cyclops recounts to the others what he saw a year ago.  Emma wakes first and when confronted, she denies having been part of

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Fruits Basket Volume 18

Goodbye, TokyoPop

Goodbye, TokyoPop Times they are a changing.  Last year, Del Rey all but completely dropped from the manga publishing field (save for a very few titles like xxxHOLiC).  Yesterday, word came out that TokyoPop is going to close its publishing doors, meaning TokyoPop will now disappear from the manga publishing field as well.  Turn the

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Gakuen Alice Volume 15

Gakuen Alice Manga Volume 15

学園アリス manga review Gakuen Alice Manga Volume 15 –> Not available from RAKUTEN.COM (formerly BUY.COM) –> PURCHASE FROM BARNES & NOBLE –> PURCHASE FROM RIGHTSTUF! SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: The sports festival goes and Luca is happy to win an event in front of Mikan. With Luna having Natsume figuratively tied up, Luca and Mikan end up

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War on Geminar Episode 05

Has FUNimation Licensed Canon Tenchi Spinoff "Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari?"

On FUNimation’s new Open Beta site, the Tenchi Muyo (OVA 3) page lists not only the Tenchi licenses FUNimation has licensed, including the Geneon license rescues, but it also mentions Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari.  Now, this does not necessarily mean that FUNimation HAS the title but FUNimation only lists titles that they’ve licensed, which is

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