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01/18/10
The last feature review of the season: Kimi ni Todoke.
01/15/10
Astro Fighter Sunred 2 continues the great comedy, while Winter Sonata brings the classic Korean drama to Japaneses animation.
01/14/10
Sora no Otoshimono provides us with horrible mysoginistic fantasy fullfilment. To contrast, Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzuu just satisfies our sweet-tooth.
01/12/10
To Aru Kagaku no Railgun has some great action and animation but not-so-great writing, while 11 Eyes doesn't particularly have either.
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Feature Review 01/18/10
Sawako is a strange girl who is often mistakenly called “Sadako” due to her appearance and unconventional demeanor. She admires her popular classmate, Kazehaya-kun, due to his outgoing personality and unconditional friendliness towards her.
Feature Reviews
Six Japanese literary works receive animated adaptations with character designs provided by various high-profile manga artists in this series.
Irabu Ichiro is an eccentric psychologist who startles his patients with his weird behavior while getting to the bottom of their psychological issues.
Darker Than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini
Hei and Yin are on the run after betraying the Syndicate, and in Russia they meet a young girl who becomes embroiled in the conflict between various factions vying for power.
Fumi and Akira, best friends ten years ago, reconnect while in high school and help each other deal with their respective romantic problems.
Koyomi Araragi is a third-year high-school student who briefly became a vampire. One day a girl falls into his arms who weighs almost nothing.
There is said to be a 70 percent likelihood that an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 will hit Tokyo in the next thirty years. Mirai is a middle school freshman who lives through such an event, and must find her way back home with her brother.
Reviews
The washed-up superhero Sunred and the pleasantly-antagonistic Florsheim organization, led by the ultra polite Vamp-sama, return in season 2 of this superhero gag comedy series.
The beloved Korean drama gains an animated adaptation, with Korean actors reprising their roles as the characters.
Tomoki often has dreams of a mysterious girl asking for help, but once he wakes up he can’t seem to recall her face. Then one day, an angel falls out of the sky...
In this “heartwarming comedy,” the Mikogami sisters enjoy cosplaying as animals. One day they find a magic compact that allows them to transform into real animals.
Mikoto and Kuroko maintain peace and order in the University District of Academy city, where the population is 80 percent students involved in the Brain Development Program.
Satsuki Kakeru lost his sister due to suicide and has been living a dull life ever since. One day he’s transported, along with his friend, to an alternate world called “Red Night” and must confront adversaries to escape.
