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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Why Shinji is as strong as Rei and Asuka and …What would Asuka do? (Spoilers ahead) I was reading the NGE manga and in volume six Toji discovers he’s the fourth child. His Eva unit is taken over by an Angel and Rei, Shinji, and Asuka are sent to destroy it. This happens in episode 18 of the anime. Shinji has no idea Toji is in the Eva/Angel in the anime, but still refuses to destroy it. In the manga he recognizes that it is Toji. Shinji refuses to shoot, Rei only...Read Full Story

Jump Square Magazine announced yesterday that they will be publishing a manga adaptation of the popular A-1 Pictures animated series AnoHana (Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai). Scheduled for release on April 4th of this year, the manga will be drawn by newcomer artist Mitsu Izumi. Izumi has been previously published twice by Jump Square Magazine. Both manga are currently free to read at the magazine's official website. I must say, I quite liked Izumi's art style in...Read Full Story

Back again to blog about one of the secret entertainers of the Spring season, Ginga E Kickoff. The topic of this episode happens to involve being a girl. And with this… And this… And that, the general gist of the episode is pretty clear (almost), but I didn’t think that remark from Episode 1 by the coach would end up being a plot point for this one. After all–and anyone who follows soccer on a regular basis can take me to task on this one if I’m wrong about this–I’m pretty sure Women’s...Read Full Story

I must admit that I was partly looking forward to watching High School DxD – while ecchi series can become tiresome, I have a soft spot for a good bit of ecchi comedy, and this anime managed to deliver it in spades. It was a show with some interesting characters, nice fight scenes and some great pieces of comedy. It also came across as a combination of Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou and Sora no Otoshimono – we had the supernatural harem, along with the shamelessly perverted male protagonist who is...Read Full Story

Guilty Crown had all the elements required to be a memorable, long standing anime series…except it lacked any coherent story and plot, creative and strong characters, and a direction as to where it wanted to go. Simply put, one of the most disappointing animes of 2011. And disappointing in the fact that it mainly became a loud and flashy action series, where the action was good at times, then it was bad at times; but more or less it became frustrating as the actual elements needed to create a...Read Full Story