Manga of the Week - Area no Kishi & Elfen Lied

Posted by KaKaR on 05/06/2012 1:14 pm

This week, our manga spotlight has shined on Area no Kishi suggested by happiidayy & Elfen Lied suggested by stefen.  If you are unfamiliar with these manga be sure to check them out!

Area no Kishi
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Series Summary:
Aizawa Kakeru is an energetic and dedicated eighth grader who serves as the manager for his school's football team. Though he was well known for being a talented player the previous year, an accident during one of his games caused Kakeru to vow never to play competitively again. Still passionate about the sport, Kakeru dreams of one day becoming a professional football trainer so that he can work alongside his older brother Suguru, the ace of the school team who has represented Japan in international competition.

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Elfen Lied
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Series Summary:
The story involves human mutations called "dicloniuses," who grow horns on their heads and possess telekinetic powers, in the form of invisible "arms" called vectors. The tendency for violence among dicloniuses varies among characters. Certain scientists contain them in a Facility in cells, where they are subject to inhumane experiments to test their abilities or where they await execution for being too dangerous.  An infectious virus is also associated with the mutation. This virus is spread through non-lethal contact with the vectors of a diclonius. The main non-mutant character in the story is Kouta, who ends up becoming increasingly involved with these dicloniuses, as they seek refuge from the scientists. The main diclonius character is Lucy/Nyuu, a killer whose alter ego is a hapless and very cute child whose vocabulary and intelligence are quite limited. After a large amount of choice occurrences, the lives of these two characters become inexplicably intertwined.

 

Manga of the Week - Octave & Change 123

Posted by KaKaR on 04/29/2012 10:51 am

This week, our manga spotlight has shined on Octave suggested by CrimsonWater & Change 123 suggested by Slinky.  If you are unfamiliar with these manga be sure to check them out!

Octave
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Series Summary:
When she was young, Yukino Miyashita wanted, more than anything else to become an idol. After accomplishing her dream, however, the idol group she was part of failed to sell, and she returned to school, facing alienation from her peers. Now, at age 18, Yukino is living alone in Tokyo, half-heartedly trying to start a new life as a talent manager, while not quite able to put her idol days behind her. She meets Setsuko, a songwriter who also once belonged to a failed idol group. The romance sparked by her encounter with Setsuko causes Yukino to reevaluate her own life.

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Change 123
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Series Summary:
Meet Motoko, a girl with a very strange problem. In order to cope with her three adoptive fathers' incredibly intensive training methods, she developed three multiple personalities plus her own, each with a different martial specialty. But what happens if none of them can beat her opponent on their own? And what further nugget of wisdom will be imparted by the great Kamen Raider?

 

Why are all the download servers Offline?!?!

Posted by Yukimura on 04/24/2012 6:47 pm

The problem has been resolved in case anyone hasn't noticed yet.

Someone at the datacenter tripped over a power cable or plugged everything into one breaker or something.  They're working on it, it'll be fixed when it's fixed, don't ask any more questions about it.

On the bright side the viewer still works just fine so you can use that to hold yourselves over or just wait quietly checking back every ten minutes or so. 

 

Manga of the Week - Battle Angel Alita & Tsuki no Shippo

Posted by KaKaR on 04/22/2012 11:03 am

This week, our manga spotlight has shined on Battle Angel Alita suggested by sadcrescentmoon & Tsuki no Shippo suggested by AAotD.  If you are unfamiliar with these manga be sure to check them out!

Battle Angel Alita
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Series Summary:
Alita is a powerful cyborg with a soft heart and a mysterious past. Her second lease on life isn't easy: her heart is broken, she gains and loses friends to the cruel world of the Scrapyard far below the Utopian city of Tiphares, and she serves many masters in her quest to protect the innocent and create a new life for herself.

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Tsuki no Shippo
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Series Summary:
Usagi is the granddaughter of the leader of a prestigious ninja village, but she's such a klutz that she's never made it out of the lower class. Frustrated with Usagi's lack of progress, her grandfather sends her to marry Lord Hanzo with an order to breed many ninja children. But the lord has no interest in her or her childbearing potential!

 

Manga of the Week - Heart o Uchinomese! & AKB49 - Renai Kinshi Jourei

Posted by KaKaR on 03/25/2012 2:28 pm

This week, our manga spotlight has shined on Heart o Uchinomese! suggested by Tessa & AKB49 - Renai Kinshi Jourei suggested by shei.  If you are unfamiliar with these manga be sure to check them out!

Heart o Uchinomese!
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Series Summary:
No matter how many times she sleeps with Arai, Negishi realizes that neither her nor Arai's feelings were being conveyed. Their sex felt “like” love, but only feeling “like” something wasn't the same thing as having it. What is Negishi supposed to do in order to get Arai to understand her true feelings?

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AKB49 - Renai Kinshi Jourei
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Series Summary:
This series is about a guy called Urakawa Minoru crossdressing as a girl to participate in a female idol group audition (akb48). The main objective is to help the girl he likes, Yoshinaga Hiroko, pass the audition. Yoshinaga Hiroko's dream is to become like her favourite idol who is in the akb48 group. This audition happens to be her final try, so Minoru crossdresses as Minori and took part in the audition to make sure she realizes her dream. Hiroko got qualified eventually, however, the shocking news was Minoru was qualified as well. Thus, the road to becoming a female idol begins...

 

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