I was one of the many excited to hear the news about this season’s currently airing Lupin III TV series. My eyes lit up upon catching sight of phrases such as “characters designs by Koike Takeshi” and “more like Monkey Punch’s manga.” Redline–if anything–looked pretty cool, and I remember...

Much like that speed dating thing I wrote about a bit ago, you can attain a lot of this information just by reading the mixi thread for the event. However, I’m going to assume most of you can either not read Japanese, or don’t have mixi accounts. Besides, I...

I had expected much worse, but Guilty Crown didn’t turn out so bad. From the very beginning, Guilty Crown was a rather dubious television program in more than a few ways, but certain aspects of it kept pulling me back in. Sometimes it was the action, and sometimes it...