Dead Man Wonderland

*I may have figured out what I am going to do, I will review anime/manga and tell you to buy or skip, let's see if this works!*

Plot Summary: Dead Man Wonderland is a manga about a teenage boy who is falsely accused of slaughtering his entire class instead of the "red man". As he enters the only privately owned and operated prison in Japan with the death sentence on his head, he learns this is no ordinary prison. Struggling to survive, and proving his innocence he learns there is a lot more to Dead Man Wonderland than you'd think.

The good: First of all the artwork was simply incredible, it was stylish and had a distinctive look for anime. I especially like how there's always something going on in the background and foreground creating a very nice look. Second, the story kept me interested, they always introduced some character properly and made sure you knew their personality. My favorite character has to be "The Original Sin" that guy is just BAD ASS without being an asshole.

The bad: I felt the opening was rather...clunky, we get off to a start making it seem like a slice of life anime, but then we are rushed through the trial, accusations and etc. and are dropped into Dead Man Wonderland. I suppose this was done on purpose, so we could get into the main characters shoes, showing how he felt about the whole ordeal. Secondly, some of the happenings in the first volume feel like they have ADD, their in the cafeteria, whoops now their in the race! It felt a little off for me thats all.

Summary: Even though I emphasized greatly on how it felt a clunky at the beginning I do love this manga and I am definitely getting the next volume next chance I get. I think you should check it out and it's most definitely worthy of a buy.

(Rated OT)

I'm not dead just tired!

I apologize for being absent, I have finals and it's been exhausting! To apologize formally I will a have a super special awesome mega chocolaty fudge coated extended edition of my blog.

Bleach On Crunchyroll!!!: Crunchyroll just announced that it will stimucast Bleach on it's website. It will start with the latest (Japanese) episode, #274 and it will stimucast it on June 8, 2010. It will also stimucast episodes 266-273 on June, 15. It will be available in HD for premium members a mere hour after it airs on Tokyo T.V. and it will be available in SD a week after for regular members. It will be available in English subtitles in so many countries you basically have to be in South Africa not to see it...oh wait...it's available there as well.

Top Selling Manga (for Japan)
From November 23, 2009 to May 23 2010
1. One Piece Volume #57 Sold: 2,305,594
2. One Piece Volume #56 Sold: 2,276,013
3. Full Metal Alchemist Volume#25 Sold: 1,251,949
4. Nodame Cantabile Volume #23 Sold: 1,223,488
5. Full Metal Alchemist #25 Sold: 1,208,345
6. Naruto Volume #49 Sold: 1,152,551
7. Naruto Volume #50 Sold: 1,119,029
8. Naruto Volume #51 Sold: 952,072
9. Kimi no Todoke Voume #10 Sold: 939,831
10. Hunter X Hunter Volume #27 Sold: 918,059


Borders losing mo' money: Borders a major book store and media outlet reports a 15 percent quarter sales lost, a net loss of about 64 million dollars. They closed 6 domestic stores, however on the bright side there is about a 6 percent increase in international store sales. It a darn shame for me because my "local" Borders has a huge ass Manga section and if it were to close down, I would have to drive to a different state next time I wanted some Manga.

Awesome People to Produce Awesome Cartoon: Remember Thundercats? Probably not but, like Transformers it's making an epic comeback. Thundercats a cartoon from the 80's appears to be going to be animated/produced by 4 degrees Celsius studio. To give you an idea of just how spectacular this new series is going to be, these guys animated/produced, Ben 10, Batman: The Brave and The Bold, Teen Titans, and even Avatar: the Last Airbender. If you hated any of these and argue they aren't real animes I have this flimsy response: could you do any better?

I cAn haZ mOar mangas?: Finally Viz Media plans ANOTHER North American Manga release of a series called Mardock Scramble. The series is described as (and I'm quoting someone on this) "A young prostitute named Balled...now a cyborg...chases down a variety of insane villains..." I'm not shortening the quote to put down the series or altering it to make it look stupid, quite literally that's what it said. Although I must admit a crime fighting prostitute cyborg, is still not half as crazy as other Manga or Animes I've seen...speaking of.

Incest? Oh your step-siblings...: In conclusion today there seems to be a plan of a Direct release of an anime called KissXSis which follows the "forbidden love" of a brother and his two step-sisters. They DVD which ships Friday will be episode the 5th episode but ironically call #4 since the pilot was called episode #0. It will also be bundled with the first print of volume #7 of the manga. My only issue is if having step-siblings in the same house be boyfriend and girlfriend was O.K. in Twilight, then I don't see how they make a big deal of it in this series. Then again, I'm the one who watched the entire Honey and Clover series.

Anime Character of the Day: Edward Elric
Edward Quote: "I am not an ordinary Alchemist"

Anime News and Quikie Review

Adult Swim MOAR JAPANIMA: Adult Swim could very well be your one stop spot for anime soon, having Bleach, premiering new episodes of FMA: Brotherhood, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost In The Shell, Inyuyasha and ANOTHER new anime called Kekkaishi. Premiering TONIGHT at 12:30 and re-airing at 4:30 it is worth a look see. The series revolves around Yoshimori Sumimura and Tokine Yukimura and are apparently some sort of magical samurais, protectors of their land. The series is aimed at teenage boys (five bucks says there is an awkward romance) and the manga is among the bestselling in Japan receiving some awards and frequently appearing on the bestseller list. Now if Adult Swim could just start airing Death Note I'd never leave Adult Swim ever again.

Hooray for Illegal: It is confirmed that an unauthorized manga scanning site is among the top 1000 visited everyday. It has around 4.2 MILLION unique visitors and 1.1 BILLION page views. Now this is good news/bad news for anime fans. In one case it means that there is hope for those of us who have low budgets and are unable to afford a weekly or even a monthly trip to the Manga/Graphic Novel section of Barnes & Noble (or whatever your local book store is). But on the other hand that means with something like this in the spotlight there could be an increase in the crackdown of copyright infringement for owners of the mangas (like Viz Media). For those that have money please support the official release or Chuck Norris will get you...I promise on that.

Related to da post above: Here are a few mainstream manga volume release dates

Naruto Volume 48 June 8, 2010
Naruto Volume 49 October 5, 2010
Bleach Volume 31 June 1, 2010
Bleach Volume 32 September 1, 2010
One Piece Vole 49-53 June 1, 2010
One Piece Volume 54 June 6, 2010
Black Butler Volume 3 July 2010
Black Butler Volume 4 October 2010
Black Butler Volume 5 January 2011
Black Butler Volume 6 April 2011

Naruto Volume 47 *Minority Spoilers*: It is confirmed that Narutos Dad is a huge dick, Hinata finally stops being a stalka bitch, (just kiding, but the reason I dont support Hinata X Naruto is because I want Hinata for myself...and so the war begins between me and MasakoX) and Naruto is Satan... Best volume ever!

Anime Character of the Day: L from Death Note
L quote: "Call me whatever you wish I am still taking your cake."