We continue with our reviews of the core Record Of Lodoss War series, The Grey Witch, and move on to the second act of the series. The first act did okay – nothing flashing, but nothing awful either. Does the second act improve, or do poorly? Continue reading →
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Manga Review – Record of Lodoss War: The Grey Witch Vol. 1
Well, I’ve reviewed Record of Lodoss War, the classic anime that set the mark for a lot of people’s anime campaigns. Now I’m going a little closer to the source, with the manga adaptation of the original game session transcriptions and the novels based of them. Continue reading →
Manga Review – Record of Lodoss War: Lady of Pharis Vol. 2
We now come to the conclusion of the Record of Lodoss War prequel manga. Do things get wrapped up properly, setting things up for the core series, or is the conclusion unsatisfying? Continue reading →
Licence notes from Anime Expo
Well, in addition to the 4th of July festivities going on across the US this weekend, we’ve also got another event going on in the US – Anime Expo in Southern California. While I was not able to attend this year, I was able to get some information from other sites about the new licences and so forth coming from the convention. All of this is courtasy of Anime News Network. Continue reading →
Manga Review – Record of Lodoss War: Lady of Pharis Vol. 1
Well, I’ve got a manga review for you this time. This time around, I’ve got the first installment of the Record Of Lodoss War prequel manga “Lady of Pharis”. Continue reading →
Diamond Drops Additional Anime, Manga
Anime News Network is reporting that Diamond is dropping some additional anime and manga from their offerings. They’d previously dropped some additional titles back in March, notably the Ponyo On The Cliff by The Sea manga, adapted from the film of the same title by Hayao Miyazaki (which will be released in theaters later this summer.
In this wave they’re dropping (among other things) the 3rd and final DVD of Gurren Lagann, which is the point in the series where the series goes what can be concervatively described as bat-dren awesome. Continue reading →
Possible English re-release of Ghost in the Shell, Akira Manga
Anime News Network is reporting that the first volume of the Akira and Ghost in the Shell manga are currently up for pre-order on Amazon.com. Making the fact that both of these manga are coming back into print slightly more notable is that the titles are not being published by Dark Horse Comics, their previous licensor, but by Kodansha Comics. Kodansha is the Japanese rightsholder for both of these titles, and published the original manga for both titles in Young Magazine.
Dark Horse is the licensor of several other Kodansha titles, including You’re Under Arrest, Oh! My Goddess, Gunsmith Cats, and Blade of the Immortal.