Vandread: The Second Stage ヴァンドレッド the second stage REVIEW (may contain mild spoilers) When I initially watched Vandread several years ago, I was not into mecha titles but I was rather impressed with the story of that series, so much so that I bought it and Vandread: The Second Stage before completing the series. It
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Back to the Vaults — Vandread: The Second Stage
March 16th, 2010 
AstroNerdBoy 
Posted in Anime 
Tags: Back to the Vaults, FUNimation, Geneon, Vandread, What I'm Watching 
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Back to the Vaults — Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro
October 25th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Back to the Vaults — Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro ルパン三世 カリオストロの城 Rupan Sansei: Cagliostro no Shiro SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Lupin and Jigen pull off a heist at a large casino and get away clean when Lupin discovers that the money is all counterfeit. Dumping the money on the highway, Lupin decides they should head for the
Posted in Anime Tags: Back to the Vaults, Classic, Lupin III, Lupin III Castle of Cagliostro, What I'm Watching 6 Comments »
Back to the Vaults — Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki: Night Before Carnival ("Episode 7")
July 11th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy 天地無用! 魎皇鬼 OVA “Night Before Carnival” Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki: Night Before Carnival With the success of Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 1, it was only natural that AIC and Pioneer would want more. So, a single episode was created to bridge the series to the future OVA 2 series. This time around, Tenchi is adjusting to
Posted in Anime Tags: Back to the Vaults, KAJISHIMA Masaki, Tenchi Muyo Ryo-ohki, What I'm Watching 28 Comments »
Back to the Vaults: Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 1
June 16th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy 天地無用! 魎皇鬼 OVA 1 Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 1 ***SPOILERS*** Early in 2003, I was a noob into the anime fandom scene. I had watched Hand Maid May as well as Love Hina and discovered I had a taste for the harem-styled romantic comedy titles. So I set out to find more and was told
Posted in Anime Tags: Back to the Vaults, KAJISHIMA Masaki, Tenchi Muyo Ryo-ohki, What I'm Watching 25 Comments »
Shōgun — Why You Should Watch This 1980 Mini-series
May 26th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Shōgun — Why You Should Watch This 1980 Mini-series –> Purchase the Blu-ray or DVD from Amazon.com Shogun Mini-series Review (DVD) I was 10-years old when this mini-series was released in the U.S. As such, I would not have been allowed to watch this back then. Naturally, now that I’m into things Japanese, I had
Posted in Other Tags: Back to the Vaults, live-action, review, Shogun, What I'm Watching 15 Comments »
Back to the Vaults: Ai Yori Aoshi — the Manga!
March 12th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy 藍より青し (Manga) Ai Yori Aoshi — the Manga! The only reason to have manga on my bookshelves is to reread it some day. Such is the case with Ai Yori Aoshi, which I decided to dust off and read again after reading the final volume in 2007. I got into this manga series via the
Back To The Vaults: Planetes
February 27th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy プラネテス ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ Planetes ***SPOILERS*** Recently, I read some articles about two satellites crashing in space and the debris they create (here, here, and here). That reminded me of the anime Planetes, which features Earth of 2075 where the main characters are members of the Debris Section of a large company, charged with collecting all of
Back to the Vaults 2008 Christmas Special — "Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~ Miyuki"
December 24th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~ Deep Snow Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~ Beautiful Snow 藍より青し ～縁～ 深雪 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Kaoru is returning home from his part-time job to pay for school when he sees classmate Tina Foster on the street. He turns down her offer to have dinner, citing other things he has to do. As he
