Old by the standard of most modern anime fans and companies, Hunter x Hunter is getting a release from the only company with a Shonen Jump stamp to use as they please.

Far easier to write than my review last week (what shonen adventure show ISN’T easy to lay down and watch?), let’s see if this dog can hunt. Continue reading →

A show I’ve heard people talk about for awhile.  Darker Than Black is probably one of the better shows in recent memory.

Hard review to write for alot of reasons, but the main one is this show is complex, and very deep.

So let’s take a look at Darker Than Black and see what’s what. Continue reading →

Wow, nearly a month before the DVD is released.

This review is spoiler free.

The first movie based on the Death Note manga finally gets an American DVD release from one of Viz’s sub-brands, Viz Pictures.  Being one of Viz’s most popular brands, one would hope Death Note would get a grand treatment, and luckily it is.  Let’s take a look at what is right and wrong with the DVD of Death Note. Continue reading →

Hey, Sports fans! It looks like the time has come for me to make my debut on the FBR, so I am going to kick things off with the 1999 animated series Blue Gender, which was localized by Funimation in the US between 2001 and 2003.

Today we’re going to take a look at the very first episode of the series, the episode that started it all, and see what it’s all about.  The episode is at the bottom of the review, so if you want to watch it before reading the review, scroll on down (it’s split into pieces, all are down there).
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Woo, first review, and a couple days before the set is officially out also.

School Rumble is a show I really enjoy.  The singles released between late 2007 through the middle of 2008 had quite a few flaws in regards to video though.  Funimation has changed a show released as six singles into a boxset with five disks, so let’s take a look at what’s changed, what’s better, what’s worse, and what is the same. Continue reading →