Is it… can it be…? We’re on time for once!? Aiura Well, that was an anime. Clocking in at exactly four minutes, Aiura spends about half of its first installment on the OP and ED, leaving only a little more than two minutes for the actual meat of the episode. This isn’t to say it was bad – in fact, it’s actually one of the lovelier looking TV anime in recent memory – but really, there’s almost nothing here. There…

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Okay, so…Homestuck. You’ve heard the name. You’ve heard…things. 14-year-old kids talk excitedly about it in the back of the class as they fill binders full of their John/Dave yaois. Convention-goers mutter about people in gray makeup with candy-corn horns and police light-colored glasses roving around and forming photo groups. Bryan Lee O’Malley offhandedly mentions Scott Pilgrim and Homestuck in the same breath. But no one seems to be willing to try and explain what Homestuck even is, much less tell…

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“This is how you know you’re living in the future: when the pornography bears no earthly resemblance to sex as even the filthiest of us know it. You may as well be renting DVDs of aliens fucking.” — Warren Ellis I could never get with all that Tale of the Fisherman’s Wife shit. I mean, if you want to see a giant octopus penetrate a woman (or man… or dog), that’s cool; not my thing, though. But that’s the lighthearted…

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I’ve never made any pretenses about what my favorite manga is. And no one else has ever made any pretenses about the fact that there are only maybe ten people in the US who read it. Excel Saga is a black comedy about relatively normal people who unwittingly become involved in a low-impact battle for world city domination. It features absolutely no cutesy aliens or reset button shenanigans, and relies more on wry wit than silly slapstick for humor. More…

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Late again, I know. We bring shame to our families. We’ll be more timely next time, I promise. Love you guys~ <3 Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman Do you remember what happened last time Monkey Punch made an anime that wasn’t Lupin-related? Allow me to refresh your memory. While less laughably incompetent, Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman is just as bad… which in essence probably makes it worse. Bakumatsu is about as close as a show can get to Lupin III without actually being…

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Greetings everyone! I am Count Foggula, Foggle’s 70% eviler and 100% more sparkly great uncle. It is on the day of this year’s glorious All Hallow’s Eve celebration that I have been asked to bring you some holiday-themed editorials, straight from the bowels of Hell itself. Penned by the eternally damned souls of several Animation Revelation forum members, this feature covers three pieces of horror animation in shocking 2D! What could possibly be more terrifying? Please enjoy reading their thoughts…

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