When people say “anime,” the types of shows that come tomind are usually something including robots, people punching each other, and/orgirls in sailor suits. Usagi Drop,while not the best anime out there definitely stood its ground in a time when moe is dominating the market. Enter Daikichi—he’s not exactly a bum, but he’s not exactlythe picture of perfection either. He’s single and in his thirties, holding up areasonably good job, and he’s just fine with that. You’d expect that lastsentence…

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Heh, kind of difficult to be objective about something like Problem Solverz, since you’ve got a 95/5 split for a fandom…and what a small, isolated fandom they are. Anyway…Problem Solverz started airing on Cartoon Network earlier this year, coming off the heels and in the heat of the big reform they’ve been making over the past few years. Folks had just started migrating back to CN to partake of its new smashing successes (namely, the bizarre and imaginative Adventure Time…

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Hey guys, Avaitor here. We’ve been hoping to do guest reviews for a while, and our good friend Kiddington, an AR board regular and all-around cool guy, was the first to send in a review, this time for the live-action Fairly Odd Parents movie, something no one on staff wanted to watch and review for ourselves. Hopefully this won’t be the last we see of Kiddington on the blog, or of other guest contributors. Stick around! Ten years. My word,…

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My word, Dreamworks has done it! They have made a sequel that not only is quite good to the point that it surpasses the original, but have made a film that can easily give this year’s Pixar entry a run for it’s money. Creatively speaking, that is. But seriously, Kung-Fu Panda 2 surpassed all expectations it had, and comes out as a damn fine film. The film follows after the first one, with Po (voiced by Jack Black), the titular…

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We all know about Avengers: United They Stand. A legendarily bad show they barely lasted a full 13 episode run on the old FOX Kids’ block before being quickly binned and forgotten by everyone who experienced its lousiness first hand. But now, we have a new Avengers show out, so a look back at the previous animated incarnation of these characters seems like the most sensible idea at this point in time. If you thought this show was bad for…

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What I expected. In the not-too-distant future, there lives a girl named Madoka Kaname who wishes that she could overcome her submissiveness and be something in this world. And luckily for her, this world is full of magical girls who earn their worth by killing monstrous beings known as witches. With the help of her animal companion, Kyubey, Madoka must make her wish and become the strongest magical girl to– –OH MY GOD, THAT GIRL JUST GOT HER HEAD BIT…

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Yes, everybody else blogged about the movie months ago. Yes, this probably won’t change whether or not you’ll go and watch it. Yes, none of us except for DaemonCorps or Desensitized like Haruhi that much to give anything resembling an informative review. But in the end, does it matter? Well, yeah. But alas, fuck it. Let’s get to the review. It’s Christmas time for the SOS Brigade, and what a better way to celebrate the holidays than to loosely enact…

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You know, they don’t make them like this anymore. I’m not just referring to animated 2D movies like Cats Don’t Dance as they are made today today. Big budget 2D animated films might be a rarity today, but back in the 90s (even the late 90s) they were still quite popular. But in that the old hacky phrase was essentially the same one used to describe the film when it originally came out in 1997. I mean this twofold, in…

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About as a vibrant as a set of used markers. We of the Animation Revelation are a rare breed, as in we utterly despise any show adapted from the visual novels of a studio by the simple name of Key. Sure, they have pretty good animation and some decent, if diabetes-inducing, music, but we can’t just comprehend the cries of “BEST ANIME EVA!” when seeing reviews or discussions about Kanon, Air, or Clannad. While others may see them as emotionally…

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