Another anime I need to watch is Excel Saga. Arguably the best anime next to FLCL, with its irrelevant and obscene scenarios. I got into Excel Saga at Anime Central in 2004 after seeing so many Nabeshin cosplayers, and since Nabeshin (Shinichi Watanabe—not to be confused with Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop) himself was the [...]

Interstella 5555 is the anime, directed by Leiji Matsumoto, based on the music videos of Daft Punk’s “One More Time”, “Aerodynamic”, “Digital Love, and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (which was later used in Kanye West’s “Stronger”). It’s the same music videos–including pretty much the whole album as “One More Time”, “Discovery”, into a feature length [...]

Great Teacher Onizuka is one of my favorite anime that I have been neglecting to watch–and collect–for a few years. GTO is a story of a bad boy biker turned high school teacher, which spawned in various formats. There is the manga, (currently available at your nearest bookstore), then the live action J-Drama, and finally [...]

Impressions: 9/10
This is the movie poster for the second Bleach movie, “The Diamond Dust Rebellion”. It will be in theaters in Winter 2007, and soon on DVD in September 2008.
I wonder what the movie will be about…I assume it has something to do with Toshiro Hitsugaya “rebelling” against Soul Society, and it’s up to Ichigo [...]

The newest anime in the Gundam franchise is now available on your favorite fansub distribution site! I am very optimistic about Mobile Suit Gundam 00. At first glance, it looks like the artists from Gundam Seed returned for a “seed”-less sequel of the anime. Not a chance! The director of Gundam 00 is Seiji Mizushima, [...]