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Favorite Anime
Revolutionary Girl Utena
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Escaflowne
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Fullmetal Alchemist
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Baccano!
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Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
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Favorite Manga
Tokyo Babylon
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NANA
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Black Jack
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X
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Soul Eater
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Favorite Characters
Naoto
Shirogane, Naoto
Seishirou
Sakurazuka, Seishirou
Folken
Fanel, Folken
Nana
Osaki, Nana
Kino
Kino
Kuro
Hazama, Kuro
Dr. Franken
Stein, Dr. Franken
Miles
Edgeworth, Miles
Phoenix
Wright, Phoenix
Ichirou
Mihara, Ichirou

Favorite People
CLAMP
CLAMP
Nakata, Jouji
Nakata, Jouji
Ikuhara, Kunihiko
Ikuhara, Kunihiko
Ogata, Megumi
Ogata, Megumi
Onosaka, Masaya
Onosaka, Masaya
Paku, Romi
Paku, Romi

Clubs
Total Clubs: 6
Subaru X Seishirou Fanclub, BLAST ~Black Stones~ FC, Shoujo Kakumei Utena, ~ Shoujo-Ai & Yuri ~, Phoenix Wright Club, THEM inc
Friends
Total Friends: 15
demondude777, shinigami, Sayuri-Hime, Toastburner_B, Mylene, Hiraku536, kakyoism, miwasatoshi, TheDarkness, Silverback, theflibbet, gorki, Teatime, alicemalice, Zarmyn

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Apr 8, 2009
Black Jack (Anime) add
6 of 10 people found this review helpful
 
I have learned to be skeptical of OVAs derived from manga. More often than not they are simplistic and do no justice to the source material. I am glad to say that Black Jack is an acceptation to that. While each story is a stand-alone with an entirely new supporting cast, humanity and depth is given to the characters and their circumstances with only forty-five minutes to tell their story. This is impressive, and I am glad for it. Black Jack and Pinoco stay true to character while showing a shockingly human adaptability and capacity for fault. This has always been one of my favorite read more
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Feb 17, 2009
Black Jack - The Movie (Anime) add
7 of 8 people found this review helpful
 
I've been spending a lot of time with Dr. Black Jack lately, so it is impossible for me to review this movie of its own merits and not compare it ruthlessly to the other adaptations that have been made. There is something I have always loved about Black Jack--he is such a well-developed character that he has the depth of simplicity, and yet, is genuinely far more complicated than he seems. This is a huge oxymoron, but it makes sense if you think about it. There is nothing *contrived* about him, and for such a dynamic, dark character, that is an accomplishment worthy of mention. read more
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful
 
It's seven minutes of Pinoco fanservice a'la the Pikachu shorts that played before the Pokemon movies. Lots of cute, lots of formula, lots of gags, negligible substance. Really of zero interest to anybody who is not already a Black Jack fan.
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Jan 19, 2009
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38 of 54 people found this review helpful
 
This is truly a stand-alone work in terms of originality. ABe did not self-censor and allowed the full weight of his intuition and dreams to direct his hand, and the result is a beautiful, ethereal, archetypal world fully-realized and yet deep enough to retain mystery. The show does not explain everything, even the most important aspects of Gile, and that feels okay. We can see in this fantastic world what is in our innermost hearts, and our intuition fills in so many of the gaps. Few stories manage to do this so well.

The story manages to blend soft, yet interesting, aspects of slice-of-life with haunting read more
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4 of 10 people found this review helpful
 
If you slept through high school history, and you know who you are, your appreciation of the depth of this movie will be greatly enhanced by reviewing the following things: Treaty of Versailles, Weimar Republic, rise of the Nazi party (including history in the 1920's), the Manhattan Project, the Thule Society (yes, it's real), Shambala (yes, it's real), Nazi occultism, and, if you somehow missed it, the Holocaust. Japan's opinion of nuclear weapons should be obvious to anybody with a basic grasp of the history of World War II. They're never portrayed as a Good Thing in Japanese media, and frankly, I can't blame them. read more
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Jan 12, 2009
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3 of 3 people found this review helpful
 
I guess my professional bias shows when the medical aspect of the show that bothers me most is the fact that researchers kept seeing viruses under a light microscope, and that these viruses were the same size as--or larger than--red blood cells. Maybe the term that was translated as "virus" can be used for multiple micro-organisms, because the B.O.P. looks more like an ameoboid or other eukaryotic organism, but that is neither here nor there. It's Black Jack, for fuck's sake; while it is more accurate than most medical dramas out there, it's still anime.

Nit-picking aside, I'm a sucker for medical dramas, and I have read more
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Dec 7, 2008
Fish in the Trap (Anime) add
29 of 38 people found this review helpful
 
So, this is what I gather happened during that half hour:

Our hero, Matsui, is a doe-eyed, innocent uke who looks just like a brunette Shirou Kamui from X. While waiting for his friend Yoshino to get them sodas after watching this guy who looks like Tamahome from Fushigi Yuugi swim, said guy, henceforth Yuuji, accosts Matsui on the bench and takes him to a bar where some guys throw money in after betting on a high school swim match. Matsui is stupid enough to drink and smoke what they give him, and he eventually leaves. Good for him. Whatever. The typical long-haired tech and this read more
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Dec 5, 2008
Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime) add
9 of 20 people found this review helpful
 
Like everybody else in the United States with access to basic cable, I had seen bits and pieces of this show out-of-order on [adult swim], and had picked up most of the story through osmosis just by being involved in anime fandom. Maybe that is why I felt as though I could put off a total watch-through for so long. There were three shows that, for most of my high school career, everybody was obsessed with: Naruto, Bleach, and Fullmetal Alchemist. I'm none-too-fond of Naruto, and Bleach is fun but not a favorite, but FMA had always intrigued me. I remember seeing it available through read more
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Sep 13, 2008
R.O.D. OVA (Anime) add
10 of 16 people found this review helpful
 
I have been meaning to watch this show for ages. Now that I've seen it, I'm wondering what the hell exactly took me so long to get around to this. It's a fusion of some of my favorite elements--steampunk, books, history, music, and espionage. Yomiko is an absolutely adorable character, and her personality is well-established the moment you get a look at her house. The characterization for the rest of the cast is excellent as well. The artwork is lush and gorgeous, and the action sequences flow beautifully and intuitively. As a bibliophile and history buff myself, the inclusion of various random intellectual figures as read more
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Aug 5, 2008
Mahou Tsukai Tai OVA (Anime) add
10 of 12 people found this review helpful
 
I'm glad I had the chance to watch this when I was visiting a friend. I had always meant to see it--it's been a staple of anime canon for ages--but just had never gotten around to it.

This is one of the few anime with a Petite Ditz as the main character where I did not spend most of the show wanting said ditz to choke. Sae is genuinely adorable and lovable, everything most anime heroines aspire to be. Her over-the-top klutziness is endearing as opposed to hackneyed and grating. She pulls off the old school "Love Conquers All" magical girl beautifully. She seems GENUINE.

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