I have not had the pleasure of playing Muramasa: The Demon Blade for the Wii, but I've watched John play it a bit while I was working hard in the background, and I always really loved Momohime's design. The cool stockings, the c...

Since the sentencing of Iowa native Christopher Handley, who pleaded guilty to charges of obscenity for his purchase of seven lolicon manga from Japan in February, fans have been questioning: Was it right? Was it fair? Could it happ...

Courtesy of Gigazine, we’ve got the trailer for Capcom’s MONSTER HUNTER PORTABLE 3 for the PSP, the latest (and greatest?) in the MONSTER HUNTER series. But enough preamble, go on and check it out for yourself. Huh… that’s a...

Summary: After her dad reveals that Santa doesn’t exist, Sawako is faced with the even more frightening prospect of not seeing Shota over winter break.  In spite of her best efforts, Sawako flounders when she tries to say something ...

Just a quick note that the writer search is over and SS!AB has added 3 new writers.  We got a lot of applications and I want to thank everyone who applied.  I’ll let the new writers craft their own intro posts, so look forward to it...

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Those who know this blog probably know that I’m not the biggest fan of Gundam, neither UC or the New Generation. However, there are exceptions. This one included. It’s far from perfect, but the solid execution, characters and avoi...

Vice user Konanda didn't manage to get the Pokemon figurine he wanted, but he DID pick up this Dante's Inferno piece. Here are his thoughts! Thanks, Konanda! -g   Guest posts are intended to encourage diversity of thought; the opin...

If you've been keeping up with VIZ's releases of the Black Lagoon manga, then you know the arc we're in: El Baile de la Muerte, the Dance of Death, featuring the return of deadly maid Roberta. I won't say more for fear of spoiling. ...

  It seemed that more than a few of you readers were interested in the announcement of a Clannad dub. While feedback was mixed, it won't be long till you can hear for yourself. In their latest address, ...

 A couple of recent reports on the manga industry are drawing a lot of attention right now, and I'm not talking about my Handley piece-- CNN Go reports on significant sales drops in Japan, and ICv2 offers that some manga publishers ...

 The kids and the creepers. WOW… this Tohru girl in FRUITS BASKET is so NAÏVE, she makes Pollyanna seem positively cynical. WOW again… she’s definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed in this first episode. Yes, i...

Summary: Kakashi wants to take Madara out, but Madara just tells Kakashi not to bother since most Sharingan attacks don’t work on him.  After Zetsu, Madara, and Sasuke leave, the rest of Team 7 grabs their new healbot, Karin, and he...

Oh… Kendo.  As a martial arts practitioner, I was pleased to see this discipline dramatized in this first episode of SAMURAI X.  I’m sure that, even though I haven’t seen any, there are probably thousands of anime about Ken...

Gia, John, and AHR carry on about this week's hot topics...and everything else that comes to their brains. Much of which is off-topic. Oh well!...

Today’s cosplayer is from the great country/continent of Australia, the home of the colony drop. Melanie has a unique take on what she cosplays. There is a severe lack of anime cosplay, but instead concentrates on video game cos...

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Original image  Sasuke has lived a horrible life. His parents were killed, he has a jerk brother, ugly girls like him, and he is best friends with Naruto. So you should feel very bad laughing at Sasuke, for he is in the darkness. ...

While loli-legislation seems to be a near daily news, today might be considered a bright spot. Today's piece has to do with the proposed ban of all sexually explicit content people who sound or appear younger than 18 years old...

Yesterday I posted about an interesting idea suggested on Twitter: that moe fans and Twilight fans might have more in common with one another than they might initially suspect. Some of you took the opportunity to make interesting po...