For people looking for more good anime, consider checking out Prince of Tennis (which is nearing its last episode in Japan) and Starship Operators, an anime released this year. Check out AnimeNfo for reviews and episode summaries.
Now that all of you anime freaks have more time (you do, right?) check out:
Deathnote for a great detective manga about shinigami (death-gods), and the anime Beck, which is about one band’s road to stardom.
For any of you who read manga, consider using CDisplay, which is a comic book/manga viewer. It can read images within zips and rars without unzipping. If you have a better program, let me know.
Anime Rap
Grenadier 01: Smiling Enlightened [Anime-Keep]
Summary
The darkness flares with a brilliant light, and bullets pierce the katana-weilding samurai. The Enlightened ones, those experience with firearms, led by Akki Nagou have won the battle, but not the war. The Tiger of the Rear Guard, Kojima Yajirou, calls for a retreat. He is divided from his comrades by lethal pursuers and falls into the care of Tendou Rusyuna, a beautiful buxom blonde. There’s no time for romance however, as a lord who was kidnapped by Nagou needs rescuing. Yaji knows the situation is grim, but will fight anyway. Luckilly for him, Rusyuna appears to help save the day. Although she’d rather smile and show off her body, if need be, she is willing to use force to deal with scum. With Vash-like marksmanship, she dispatches all of Nagou’s forces. Yaji pledges to be her partner, and battle against the entire world at her side.
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(Starting top left: Our hero Yajirou, The Maniacal Nagou, Bathing Rusyuna, Angelic Rusyuna, Rusyuna’s Mysterious Sensei, She loads rounds from her cleavage, Nagou’s New Clothes, Starting the adventure.)
Anime Rap
Bleach 01 [Inyuyasha 4Ever]
Summary
Kurosaki Ichigo is a fifteen year old student with orange hair. For some time now, he has been able to see ghosts. It is a trait that he shares iwith his sisters, but the ghosts seem most attracted to him. A Hollow, an evil spirit, attacks a Plus, a good spirit, that he befriended. He tries to defend her with little success until a Shinigami, a death god, comes to their rescue. Kuchiki Rukia, the raven-haired Shinigami, visits him that night, surprised that he can see her. Catastrophy occurs when a Hollow attacks Ichigo’s home, injuring his sisters Yuzu and Karin. He’s desperate, and the only way left to save everyone is to become a Shinigami himself!
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Opening Credits
Episode 1 : And Thus, The Blade Has Been Swung
(Starting at the top left: Ichigo and the Plus, Yuzu and Karin, Drawing of a Hollow, Ichigo breaks the Demon Path, Ichigo in a Cloud Strife pose.)
Anime Rap (Spoiler Alert)
Naruto 104: Run Idate, Run! [Anime Heaven]
This new Naruto story arc would be okay if I hadn’t read the manga
ahead of time. Having done so however, I couldn’t care less about
Idate or the race. When the anime starts following the manga
again, I will be a happier boy.
Kakashi’s pupils nurse Idate’s wounded body and spirit.
The coolest thing about the new arc are the new opening and ending credits.
Naruto Manga 135: Mission Failure…!! [Inane]
I also read the newest chapter of the manga today, it almost made me
tear! (I’m a queer.) Shikamaru was always near my top
favorites, but this puts him in the top three.
