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Kite: Liberator...

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I picked up Kite: Liberator -- not to be confused in any way with Kite , despite appearances to the contrary... The teenage assassin Sawa discovered the man behind her parents' deaths was her own her foster-father, the police detective Akai. She murdered him. Years later, her whereabouts are still unknown. The story of a new killer has begun to circulate around the city. She is called the Angel of Death. She eliminates her targets with grace and precision, and then vanishes without a trace into the darkness. By day, the Angel of Death wears a different face; the face of Monaka, an ordinary high school girl. But she seems so delicate and sensitive, can it really all be an act? Her past is tied with Akai, and her fate is a duel to the death with the one man who can protect her - the one she loves most. Which heart is real? The icy heart of the Angel of Death, or the kind heart of Monaka? First off, aside from being part of the girls with guns genre, Kite: Liberator should NOT,

Kizuna...

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Kizuna  is one of the few titles released in the US, whose story revolves around openly gay characters... This is the original video animation of Kizuna, which appears in Be Boy Comics. Kizuna is the masterpiece of Kazuma Kodaka, who has enthusiastic followers for her works such as Sessa Takuma and Kusatta Kyoshi No Hotei-Shiki. Volume 1 Ranmaru Samejima is a very handsome and legendary high school fencing champion whose sports career comes to an abrupt halt after he is mistakenly run over by a car intended to kill his boyfriend, Enjoji, the son of the mafia don in Osaka. After the accident, Ranmaru becomes paralyzed. Thanks to encouragement from Enjoji, Ranmaru is able to endu re the difficult rehabilitation. Recognizing their intense love for one another, they begin to live together. Some years later in college, they happen to learn that Enjoji's half brother, Kei Sagano, is in Tokyo. Having fallen in love with Ranmaru, Sagano has taken fencing and now gotten into the same c

Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne...

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Over the weekend, I picked up Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne ... Rin Asogi is an immortal private detective with a thirst for vodka and a talent for attracting things that go bump in the night. In a series of nightmarish vignettes spanning sixty-five years, Rin's lush body is sadistically pierced, blown up, and mulched to a bloody pulp. The fiend behind her tortured existence is Apos, an eternal being obsessed with sacrificing Rin to Yggdrasil, the tree of all life. While Rin struggles to unravel the secrets of her endless agony, Apos lurks in the shadows, eager to tear into her ripe body and devour the memories of her countless lives. Rin's no stranger to the realm of the dead, but her next visit could last forever. Somehow, I managed to overlook Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne during its original release. I caught a preview of the series recently and it looked very intense. The image, of two people seated on either side of a chess board with one of the two horribly mutilated a

Highschool of the Dead...

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I picked up Highschool of the Dead recently... TV Series It began without warning. It continues without mercy. Now a band of high schoolers join forces with guns, swords, baseball bats and anything else they can get their hands on to battle a bloodthirsty, flesh-hungry zombie apocalypse! OVA: Drifters of the Dead Drifters of the Dead is a side story to the Highschool of the Dead TV series. When an unplanned stop on a deserted island gives Takashi, Saeko and the rest of the ragged band of survivors a chance to expose themselves to something other than zombie bites for a change, they're more than ready to take a break and let their hair down. Discovering the remnants of an old beach store, the entire group strips to swimsuits and sets out to make the uninhabited island inhabitable, but they're unaware that this seeming paradise is actually just the dead calm before the storm. Sometimes the recently deceased aren't the only problems that can lie buried in the sand