Tenchi in Tokyo is a bit of a departure for the Tenchi Muyo franchise. I am not only referring to the obvious (that Tenchi is now in Tokyo) but to the type of series this is and how it fits in with the rest of the Tenchi saga. Unlike Tenchi Muyo and Tenchi Universe, Tenchi in Tokyo uses a different basic storyline that seems to be set in another alt-universe of sorts. The series begins with the departure of Tenchi. Tenchi decided that he needed to move to Tokyo to learn more about becoming a kannusi, a traditional role which would help him better look after his own family shrine.

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The Series:

After the events set in motion, or in some characters cases, stopped dead in their tracks, Bo (Anna Silk) and Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) continue to move forward with their lives taking on cases that need solving by both the Light and Dark Fae clans. See, Bo is unaligned. She answers to no one, thereby giving her some nice access to both Fae groups. Kenzi is also back as Bo's sidekick or "claim." She's still cute and perky and talks all sorts of crap when the need arises. It arises all the time and I like that.

Everyone is back from the first season of Lost Girl and they are most welcomed. The second season of the show picks up with Bo and Kenzi taking on jobs for both Fae clans. I'd say that the first 7-8 episodes are actual stand-alone adventures that don't necessarily move the shows main point along until we get to about the 10th episode or so. This is not a complaint as some of t...Read the entire review

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Ga Rei Zero is a prequel of sorts -- one which resultedfrom the success of a manga series known as The EnchantedSpiritual Beast Ga-Rei. The first episode of the 2008 anime setsthings up dramatically only to prove to be a false switch for adifferent kind of storyline altogether. The setup involves gove...Read the entire review

I remember a few years ago seeing artwork from Gonzo's Shangri-la. It was a gorgeous depiction of a young girl with a giant futuristic boomerang and it instantly grabbed my attention. I identified the design as Range Murata, an artist whom I love, and vowed to check out the series one day. Purposefully I didn't read reviews, check opinions, or even find a summary about the show. I wanted to enter it blindly because I felt that if Murata and Gonzo were on a project together it would be something I would inherently enjoy. Boy, was I wrong.

Shangri-la presents a somewhat interesting premise. The world's economy has shifted from stock market exchange and trade and commerce to a carbon emissions index. It's a bizarre setting as countries, cities, and towns reduce their carbon footprint in order to lay low under the military's radar. As a result technolog...Read the entire review

THE PROGRAM

The Mass Effect game series never spoke to me much as a gamer; despite owning the first game in the trilogy, I've never completed it, but over the past few years have watched friends play it, seen videos, and ultimately, found it impossible not to hear how the trilogy ended in the controversial final game. Any gamer worth his or her salt knows that cheap "cash-ins" on games occur quite often in the form of animated prequels or tie-in movies. "Mass Effect: Paragon Lost" is the first major example I can think of, where a tie-in movie, in this case a prequel following a minor character from "Mass Effect 3," attempts and largely succeeds and telling a compelling story, which most importantly, speaks to fans of the parent series and those completely unfamiliar alike.

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The Movie:

Yoon Hye-In (Su Ae) is the lovely double agent caught in a web of deceit involving nuclear espionage. She's constantly trying to be courted by one of here compatriots at the NTS, an anti-terror-espionage team of players trying to stop the covert extremis group called ATHENA from obtaining these weapons of mass destruction. The other guys she fancies, well, he's the head of ATHENA. Yeah, that isn't a complicated notion at all.

That's the basic gist of one of the MANY plot points going through the Athena: Goddess of War film. In fact, is the follow up to a series called Iris. I think Athena: Goddess of War is a series as well, which was shortened into this feature film. I didn't know the backstory to Athena until after I watched it. The first of many thoughts that ran through my head when I was watching Athena: Goddess of War was that it played ...Read the entire review

The Series:

Lost Girl is a Canadian produced show that airs on SyFy here in the states and stars Anna Silk as our heroine and major protagonist Bo. Bo's different. She has a secret. Can you keep a secret? I can. She's a Succubus. She literally sucks out all of the sexual energy from her victims before they die. In fact, after she's done with them, they die with a smile on their face. Did I mention she's the good guy? Okay, just making sure. While working at a bar, and saving the life of a young thief named Kenzie (Ksenia Solo) who was drugged, she sort of takes her under her wing and moves her into her apartment for safekeeping.

What these young and attractive ladies don't know is that they're being watched by a highly secretive organization called the 'Fae.' Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) is a Werewolf/police officer and Hale (K.C. Collins) is his partner and a Syren. These supernatu...Read the entire review

In a nutshell: Pants are largely overrated anyway.

Oh, Strike Witches. What have you been up to for the past couple of years? Have you found pants? Nope. Have you given up on the panty shots and fan-service? Uh-uh. So what have the cute little witches been up to? Honestly, not much. Come to the second season of Strike Witches expecting more of the same, though that's not necessarily a bad thing.

FUNimation's release of the second season brings all twelve episodes to the States on two Blu-ray discs. Fans of the original are in for a treat because this time around it's not only familiar ground, but it's marginally better with more focus. That's not to say that the first season was scattershot by any means, but fan-service was the primary objective and story played a second fiddle. While that's still sort of the case here, there's a greater e...Read the entire review