I wonder whether the pun was intended — “Umi” = beach + sho –> show, because this anime is one long bathing suit episode. This is the story of a high school swim team, whose student coach, Kaname is afraid of water. His fear of water stems from a childhood accident which Kaname believes was causes by a very scary
Read moreOkay, take Jason Bourne, a succubus with man-phobia, a haughty girl in a maid outfit, and an older sister who is a bad-ass mercenary and put them in a high school anime and you end up with “Goshushou-sama Ninomiya.” So here’s the deal, Ninomiya is a high school boy with some over- the-top military fighting training who is constantly being
Read moreIt’s taken me a couple of months to process “Code Geass: The Lelouch Rebellion.” That’s because it was just plain shocking. It’s not that anything particularly shocking in a weird way happens, it’s more like nothing goes as expected and I can’t say whether Lelouch is a hero or a villain. This story takes place in the future when the
Read more“Pichi Pichi Pitch: Mermaid Melody” is one of those manga series that seems like it should be for ‘tweens, especially considering the target audience of the anime series. This manga series, however, is not like the anime series and has more sexual themes than I imagine most parents would like for their ‘tweens (an additional story in the last volume
Read more“Tail of the Moon” continues on with the adventures of Usagi and Hanzo Hattori. For those of you not familiar with this story, it’s a fluffly romp through feudal Japan in which the Ninja clans of Iga are perpetually preparing for war, each clan aligning themselves with either the treacherous Nobunaga or the Budda-like Ieyasu Toukagawa. Usagi and Hanzo are,
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