Anime Archive

  • Mushi-shi: Volume Two

    Mushi-shi: Volume Two

    Remaining a strong work in atmosphere and ambience, volume two in the Mushi-shi series, containing episodes six through ten, portrays five more stories revolving around the strange creatures called mushi and their impact on human lives, with Ginko leading the way as our guide and informant to their strange world. Read More View Article

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  • Nico Nico Video: Of Streaming Video and Scrolling Comments

    Nico Nico Video: Of Streaming Video and Scrolling Comments

    One small tweak to the way user feedback is integrated into the scope of streaming video is enough to enrich the entire experience from solitary amusement to shared laughter and comments amongst a friendly and hilarious community. Nico Nico Douga (or Nico Nico Video), a streaming video site based in Japan and highly popular amongst [...]

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  • When They Cry: Higurashi – Volume Two

    When They Cry: Higurashi – Volume Two

    After finishing the first “arc” of an eventual nine and introducing us to the second, When They Cry: Higurashi moves on to showing the brutal conclusion of the Cotton Drifting arc, providing several more key clues to the nature of what’s happening in Hinamizawa. With the introduction of the Curse Killing chapter, however, things only [...]

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  • Texhnolyze: Volume Four

    Texhnolyze: Volume Four

    As Ichise becomes more indoctrinated into the ways of the Organo, Onishi becomes aware of a new threat shadowing the city of Lukuss. Texhnolyze continues in this volume, which contains episodes thirteen through sixteen, as the final puzzle pieces of the setting click into piece to begin pushing forward towards the true core of its [...]

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  • Mushi-shi: Volume One

    Mushi-shi: Volume One

    Mushi-shi, as its title would suggest, revolves around the idea of the existence of the mushi, or organisms composes of the basest, most purest form of life, and the impact they have on the people who interact with them. A traveling Mushi-shi (or Mushi Master), Ginko, makes his way around the countryside, seeking out those [...]

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  • The Slayers: The Complete First Season

    The Slayers: The Complete First Season

    Recently re-released by Funimation, Slayers is widely known as a classic fantasy anime-or to be more accurate, a classic comedic take on fantasy anime-is based on a series of light novels by Hajime Kanzaka, which also spawned video game, manga, and OAV adaptations. Slayers stars Lina Inverse, a young, underdeveloped sorceress with a nasty temper [...]

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  • Texhnolyze: Volume Three

    Texhnolyze: Volume Three

    Texhnolyze’s third volume, spanning episodes nine through twelve, continue to follow Ichise’s journey through the dark corridors of Lukuss and the political factions and individuals that continue to manipulate it. A strange, disturbing series of events leads to a shakeup within the ranks of the Organo, and Ichise finds himself indebted to its young leader, [...]

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  • The Third: The Girl With The Blue Eyes [Volume One]

    The Third: The Girl With The Blue Eyes [Volume One]

    The Third: The Girl With the Blue Eyes, produced by Xebec and distributed in the US by The Right Stuf, introduces us to a version of Earth ruled by desert sands and with its population ravaged by wars in the far past. Under the rule and watch of a species known as The Third, jack-of-all-trades [...]

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  • Texhnolyze: Volume Two

    Texhnolyze: Volume Two

    Texhnolyze continues in its second volume, covering episodes five through eight, and slowly gives its viewers a clearer picture of the true undercurrents pulling the strings in Lukuss, as well as how Ichise begins to come into play amidst its warring factions. Still somehow both utterly breathtaking and horrifying at once, Texhnolyze remains a difficult [...]

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  • Texhnolyze: Volume One

    Texhnolyze: Volume One

    From much of the team that brought Serial Experiments Lain into fruition, Texhnolyze is a dark, surreal, disturbing look into the dystopia of Lukuss–an underground city divided amongst itself due to the process of Tehxnolyzation, or the substitution of lost limbs with artificial appendages. In the first volume, we are introduced to the story of [...]

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