tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238832652011-04-22T09:41:49.525+12:00A Freelance Manga and Anime Reviewer's Blog.Xenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818818927553991959noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23883265.post-20318277131137145222009-04-07T10:31:00.001+12:002009-04-07T10:31:47.627+12:00

To everyone that may somehow stumble on this blog, my apologies but it is no longer updated. I am still writing but not here. If you would like to visit my current website the url is http://www.popculturereviews.net.My pursuits in life are still the same, I still freelance and review video games, manga, anime, dvds and books, all the things that I loved three years ago I still enjoy now except I

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Suzuka Volume OneI have finished reviewing Suzuka: Volume One and the review is here. It was a cool manga, so I am looking forward to the rest in the series and it was volume one too. Reviewing new manga is SO much fun :). On the anime side of things, I am reviewing Noein which is just so awesome. If you have seen Karas at all and if you liked that, you will undoubtedly enjoy Noein as well. I

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Claws of Darkness and Ghost in the ShellI just completed the review for the fourth graphic novel in the 'Claws of Darkness' series for Journal of the Vampire Hunter. It's a neat series as well, really colourful and the story is getting alot better. My review will be up on the Manganews website soon. I also completed the review for GitS S.A.C Second Gig Volume 7. You can read my GitS review here.

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Train Main comes to Del Rey Who could forget the phenomenon that was 'Densha Otoko' or 'Train Man?'. Certainly not us thank goodness, and not Del Rey either. I have recently just finished the Shoujo manga version of Train Man (today actually) and I can tell you now, it rocks. If you wanna read all about it, my review is here. If you dont know anything about Train Man, I highly recommend to read

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Nodame Cantabile Volume SixClassical music lovers will certainly enjoy the latest manga I have just reviewed; Nodame Cantabile Volume Six. The story is interesting because it's not just a plain old love story. In my opinion, there are far too many of those out there already in the manga world! Spicing it up with something a little differrent is all good and keeps you wanting to read more. With

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Genshiken Volume 6Well, the review for Genshiken Volume Six is done. You can read my review here. There is something currently playing up with the Comicbook Bin link at the bottom of my blog so the updated manga reviews are not rotating when a new one is added. We recently had a huge upgrade on the website and I think something must have come unstuck during the process. I will give Herve a nudge

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Q-Ko-Chan: Volume One Q-Ko-Chan: Volume One Earth Invader Girl is a brilliant little manga by the author of FLCL, Ueda Hajime. My review here should be up shortly, I am just finishing up some final touches before I publish it over at the Bin. On the anime side of things, I am watching Death Note and Bleach but I haven't had time to focus on many other anime titles of late, much to my

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Tactics Volume 2My last blog today is about Tactics Volume 2 which I have just finished reviewing for Manga Entertainment. My review is now up on the Comicbook Bin website here. I thought this anime was beautifully done and the animation was delightful. Based on a manga of the same name, the anime features 5 different episodes all with similar themes relating to the supernatural. Check it out if

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Tokyopop Revolutionaries - m80Tokyopop and m80 have some pretty cool things happening right now and I am lucky enough to be one of those people promoting it. As part of the m80 Tokyopop Revolutionaries team objective, getting people to read and buy manga is a small part of that objective and promoting it helps to support the industries and fans alike. So, if youre reading this blog or found

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Air Gear is Oh! Great...I like to play with words, and if you're a real manga enthusiast, you will know that the title of this post is definitely a play on words and not an error of spelling, grammar or punctuation. So, this post is all about Air Gear, and Pichi Pichi Pitch, the last two manga I have reviewed for The Comic Book Bin. You will be able to read those reviews via the link on the far

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Desu Noto!This is the second attempt at this post since my first one somehow didn't save! Needless to say, I will ensure I am updating as much as I can because I know people are actually reading this blog now. Thanks to all those people who view my words as worthy of being read, it means more than you know.Desu Noto or Death Note is hitting the world by storm at the moment. If you haven't already

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Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro!Just a quick blog entry to keep my blog up to date. As you can see, I have altered my template again to post banners for the animated movie Lupin III The Castle of Cagliostro. Here is the link to my review over at the Comicbook Bin and I gotta tell ya, it may not look like the kind of title that will interest many anime fans out there - but this is a GREAT

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Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

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Ping Pong and Del Rey!It really has been a while since I blogged here but I have been really busy lately trying to keep my head afloat with reviews for games, manga and anime. It's still a tad slower on the anime side of things than I would like it to be, but at the moment, I have my hands full with manga to get through for Del Rey and a few games that still need to be completed. In the past few

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Wallflower Volume 8, Pastel Volume 3Manga is taking over! I have recently completed the review for Wallflower Volume 8 (check it out below on the Comicbook Bin's manga section) and I am in the middle of Pastel Volume 3. Wallflower was interesting; if you like Bishonen/Shojo titles. Pastel 3 seems to be in contrast with Wallflower - it's Shonen for a start, written by a Japanese teenager (as quite

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Take Flight - changes are afoot!You might be able to notice my blog has changed a little. I altered one aspect of the right hand menu and added an auto-updating manga review area at the bottom. This is cool because it saves me having to link back to every review I do for the Comicbook Bin and you, my lovely readers, get to read every review that's posted over there. Neat, isn't it?I have been

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Streetfighter II - The Animated MovieI have a new DVD on its way. A while ago I reviewed Karas: The Prophecy for Jacqueline over at m80.com. Well, she contacted me a couple of days ago, asking if I would help her out again by posting on my blog(s) and supporting her latest Anime campaign for Anchor Bay. This time around it's Streetfighter II - the unedited, unrated version. It's released on the

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Random House sent me Manga!On Monday I received two packages from Random House. They were full of Manga to review. Looks ike my contacts overseas really came through for me. I will be writing reviews of several different Manga titles as soon as I can get through the myriad of games GP have me reviewing at the moment. I just cant seem to get focused though.. it's eating away at me and frustrating

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This Manga-Gurl is tired..And that's no lie. It has been a while since I blogged here and I haven't had the motivation to really write anything substantial. I am back to regular study again, so that is taking up heaps of my time. I haven't watched a lot of Anime or read any Manga in a while. It's very slack, I know, but I am trying to juggle a few things at once and not really succeeding. I don't

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Updates and New Anime..I finally got the review for Journal of Vampire Hunter D Volume 3 completed today. I have published it for editing and proofing now. Hopefully, both of my Vampire Hunter D reviews will go up soon. I only have the novel review left to do and I have also started the review of Manga Studio.. all is ticking along nicely.I have now bought the complete set of Otogi Zoshi. I felt

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Manga Studio 3.0The lovely peeps that I write for over at Manganews have given me a review copy of Manga Studio 3.0 to review. That is totally cool! Although, I am not really an artist of any sort, I can definitely have a play with it and who knows, I might suddenly become a budding manga-ka! Stranger things have happened, right?What else is going on? I am still finishing off my reviews for

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C.B Cebulski, Drain and DC ComicsI started putting together the questions for C.B Cebulski this week. I have yet to hear back from my editor about how things are going but I am very optimistic. This will be my first official interview with someone who is involved with Manga and the Comic book industry so, it's quite a big deal to me. I hope all goes well. I am really keen to get hold of some of

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Vampire Hunter D..I finally managed to finish the 'Journal of Vampire Hunter D' Volumes One, Two and Three. I am also half-way through the novel based on the Vampire Hunter D anime. I have seen the anime - Vampire Hunter D: The Movie and I am collecting the next volume. My reviews will be posted on Manganews as soon as I can get them done, hopefully after I finish a couple of game reviews for

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Manga 101 Part Two..Finally completed the Manga 101 article I was supposed to do some time ago. I added the link under the links section. I haven't thought about what I will be writing next for the Comic Book Bin but I think it will probably be a monthly column about Manga in general and possibly, interviews with some of the biggest names in the Manga world. The Bin have approached VIZ Media,

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Manga 101, Ultra Violet and Gamesplus..I have finally completed the Manga 101 article which can be found here. I am pretty happy about it although I think that now, I could have added more content in some places. Overall, I think it's okay for a beginners attempt at writing about the basics of what I have learned. Hopefully, it will help others who are new to both Manga and Anime so they don't

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Requiem From The Darkness and Otogi Zoshi..New purchases for my Anime collection; I purchased Requiem From The Darkness Volume 1 and 2 recently and also Otogi Zoshi Volume 1. I have watched the first two episodes of 'Requiem From The Darkness: Turmoil Of The Flesh' and I must say, it's pretty impressive. The animation looks a little dated (DVD's were released in 2004) but the storyline is

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Check it - Xen's First Review for Manga News!My review is up on Manga Jouhou. Check it out. You can read it here. It's a Netcomics review of a Manwha (that's the Korean version of Manga). Land of Silver Rain by Mira Lee. Check out the cover pic :) It may not seem like a whole lot, but it's the first Manga review I have had published so it's kind of like a milestone for me.At the moment, I am in

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Karas: The Prophecy I now have two new banners on this blog for Karas. For those of you who haven't read my other blog, well, I kinda got lucky when Jacqueline over at m80im.com managed to find and read my blog where I mentioned Karas. She emailed me asking me if I wanted to promote Karas by adding a few banners to my blog and I was pretty happy just to do that. But she also asked me if I wanted

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New Anime to get..Okay, I thought I had better post this separately because the Karas post really needed to be just about Karas. After reading the last two New Type magazines for January and February, I decided to watch the disks that came with each issue. If you are a fan of Anime or Manga and you don't buy New Type, you really should! I highly recommend it. Anyway, on the disk that came with

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When spam isn't spam..The other day I was checking email via Yahoo and saw an email in my inbox that said 'Karas' as the subject. I was curious but first I thought it was either a) Spam related or b) some new virus. So, I was a little hesitant to open it. When I finally did, the email turned out to be sent from a woman who represents Anchor Bay Entertainment and m80. She had read one of my blogs

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Anime vs Manga..I used to be confused about the differences between Manga and Anime. For those of you reading this that know more about Manga than I do, you will probably laugh. But I used to think that 'Manga' was the violent version of 'Anime'. Why? Because I used to watch Anime that looked like kiddies animation and then I watched Anime that was quite violent and dealt with adult themes. So,

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Manga Galore..To someone who doesn't really know that much about Manga (meaning me lol) finding more and more Manga that you like can be very overwhelming. I have recently discovered a few new Manga that I could quite easily spend money on and time reading.. but now I am reading too much! And there is not enough time in the day to read it all :(Some of the titles I have discovered recently are;

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Samurai Champloo, I love you!I have decided that Samurai Champloo is one of my favourites of all the Anime I have seen. I am half way through the first volume of the Manga (as I am reading several Manga this week) and even though it's now a year old, I still think the story is so endearing. I will put aside the fact that Jin's character is beyond cool ;) because that would be biased! But the one

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Ichi..I decided to put all of my Manga/Anime related posts into a different blog because now it has become such a huge part of my life, I wanted to dedicate a blog to those two things. This is where I will update my blog whenever I do something relating to Anime or Manga, cool huh? :)So, I still havent finished that review of 'Land of Silver Rain' by Mira Lee for Manga Johou yet. I should have

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