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[19 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor episode 1

Lets start with a little… history, lets say. When a new anime season is starting (in this case the fall season), I am watching as many first episodes as I can, hoping that I can find a good anime to watch. Well, it seemed totally useless this fall ,when the whole season it proved to be a load of generic crap or MOE/kiddy stuff. After countless first episodes watched, I looked again on the list and noticed I missed one. And WOW, that scored big. Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor is one of those anime that make…

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[31 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]
A Drifting Life

It is very hard to try and review an autobiographical manga. I cannot say at a point that the story went wrong and some character was better to be portrayed differently and so on. No one can review a life. I can review the art, but not this story. Yoshihiro Tatsumi was born in Osaka, Japan, in the year 1935 and he is one of the most influential manga artists alive and a model for generations of artists and cartoonists around the world. He is widely known as the grandfather of the Japanese alternative comics…

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[5 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]
Guin Saga episode 16

Back on the island, where Guin and the others are exploring a mysterious cave. Guin has a man-to-man talk with Remus, telling him how much he changed, although he does not know if in good or worse. Remus confesses that he does not see with good eyes the the romance between Istvan and Linda. If the mercenary would marry her, he would become an obstacle between him and the throne. Deeper into the cave, they discover a huge globe of fire, at the bottom of a lava pond…

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[12 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]

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Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (Cagliostro No Shiro) appeared in 1979 and it was directed and co-written by Hayao Miyazaki. It is the second movie to feature Lupin III, a master thief inspired by the character Arsene Lupin created by the French writer Maurice Leblanc.
The famous thief Lupin III and his friends arrive in Europe to track down a source of fake money that left them broke after a robbery. They find the source of fake money in the castle of Count Cagliostro, who was …