Angel's Anime Rating Guide

I picked up Genshiken recently... Season 1 Volume 1 Sasahara appears to be a quiet college freshman, but a certain darkness lurks within his soul. For one thing, he knows what "cosplay" is, and he'd like to know more. He knows how to unlock all the secret characters in Guilty Gear X, and he'd like to know more. He knows what the plot twist is going to be in episode twenty-five of Kujibiki Unbalance because he's read the manga, and he'd like to know more. He's heard of doujinshi, and he NEEDS to know more. Enter Genshiken, the barely legitimized Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, home to all the various subspecies of Otaku!

I picked up Black Butler recently... Season 1 Ciel Phantomhive is the most powerful boy in all of England, but he bears the scars of unspeakable suffering. Forced to watch as his beloved parents were brutally murdered, Ciel was subsequently abducted and violently tortured. Desperate to end his suffering, the boy traded his own soul for a chance at vengeance, casting his lot with the one person on whom he could depend: Sebastian, a demon Butler summoned from the very pits of hell.

I picked up Princess Princess recently... Tooru Kouno left a sad family life to live at a prestigious all-boys boarding school. From his very first day, he feels like he's fallen into another world. The boys in his class seem to be strangely interested in his pretty-boy looks. He's shown around by Class President Sakamoto, who is mysteriously bowed to by everyone, even the upperclassmen. Tooru even catches a glimpse of an enchanting redheaded Princess. A graceful blonde named Shihoudani finally reveals the school's secret. To inspire the student body, campus pretty boys are required to dress up as girls... and Tooru is on the list!

With Garden of Sinners aka Kara no Kyōkai , there's a new and interesting wrinkle in the domestic anime distribution model -- BD-exclusives for the International market. Garden of Sinners aka Kara no Kyōkai is expected to be released in February 2011 in this revolutionary new distribution method. What makes this interesting is the price point -- $400 to $600, depending on your anime e-tailer of choice. For those who don't know what Garden of Sinners is... Garden of Sinners aka Kara no Kyōkai is a series of hit cult novels written by KINOKO NASU of TYPE-MOON ("Tsukihime -Lunar Legend", "Fate/stay night") and published in KODANSHA BOX series. The best-selling novel series has since been adapted into seven fully animated theatrical films, of which each corresponding movie directly covers one of the original seven chapters. In Japan, the series of movies was released in theaters, starting December 2007. Each successive release became a box office smash w...

I picked up the Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends: 100% Complete Bull box set recently... Now here's something you don't see everyday, Chauncey. It's the complete first season of one of television's smartest, savviest, and most subversively funny animated series, ranked by TV Guide as one of the top 50 series of all time. Like the animators at Warner Bros.' Termite Terrace (birthplace of Porky, Daffy, and Bugs), producer Jay Ward, his partner Bill Scott (the voice of Bullwinkle), and the cracked writing staff did not write down to children. The dialogue is witty and sharply satiric. Characters break the "fourth wall" between the screen and the audience. They make sly references to the show's creators and the television network. They hurl barbs of mass destruction at Washington, D.C. politicians. And then there are the godawful puns. This 18-disc set contains the entire series -- it's the whole shebang, featuring 91 trips in the WABAC time machine...