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Crunchyroll has announced today the introduction of their Brazilian language oriented site as coverage now expands there for the expanding simulcast service. Noting that 1.5 million descendants of Japanese origin there and the longstanding hotbed of anime fandom that exists there going back many years, expanding to the Portuguese speaking market there definitely makes the most sense. Crunchyroll has been steadily adding Spanish and Portuguese subtitle tracks to their shows in the past year and this extends that commitment in a big way. Currently, they have twenty ongoing simulcasts that are will be easily accessible there along with another fourteen shows from the archive. As Crunchyroll notes, “viewers can now access Crunchyroll’s content and service from over 216 countries, and paying subscribers come from 161 countries.”

Olá a todos~

É com um enorme prazer para a Crunchyroll poder, finalmente, anunciar formalmente os nossos serviços no Brasil!

Agora você pode acessar nossos serviços através de http://www.crunchyroll.com.br . Apreciamos a paciência de todos vocês em nos permitir construir os serviços de transmissão para o Brasil cobrindo seus contéudos asiáticos prediletos. Nos últimos meses estivemos trabalhando fortemente para licenciar a maior quantidade de shows possíveis para o Brasil, assim como também criar legendas em português do Brasil para o nosso catálogo já existente.

Agora o público brasileiro, já amantes de animes e da cultura japonesa, poderá assistir aos shows mais populares da televisão japonesa em simultâneo com a transmissão nipônica e em português.

Sucessos como Naruto, Bleach, Gintama e Sword Art Online agora estarão disponíveis com legendas em português ao mesmo tempo em que também ficam disponíveis as em inglês e espanhol (dentro de minutos em relação à transmissão japonesa). Com o anúncio de hoje, daqui para frente, todos os títulos de transmissões simultâneas licenciados para o Brasil terão legendas em português em cada novo episódio.

Nossa equipe de tradutores dedicados estarão trabalhando com muito empenho para concluir e lançar as legendas em português para os episódios antigos, já não transmitidos em simultâneo, em cada série, toda semana, até que todos os títulos com suporte estejam completados. Desde já você pode encontrar episódios com legendas em português para os seguintes títulos:

Simulcast:

1. Meu Monstrinho
2. Clube de Luz Lychee
3. Spin-off de Naruto: Rock Lee e Seus Amigos Ninjas!
4. Aoi Sekai no Chushin De
5. Shin Sekai Yori (Do Novo Mundo)
6. Hayate, O Mordomo de Combate – Não Consigo Tirar Meus Olhos de Você
7. Café Polar
8. Gintama – Terceira Temporada
9. Naruto Shippuuden
10. Poyopoyo
11. Insetos Mordedores de Traseiros
12. Diga “Eu te amo”
13. Sword Art Online
14. Folktales from Japan
15. Irmãos do Espaço
16. Teekyu
17. Saga Ixion DT
18. Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse
19. Chitose Pra Você!
20. Hiiro no Kakera – Segunda Temporada

Acervo:

1. Bleach
2. Campione
3. O Declínio da Raça Humana
4. Kokoro Connect
5. O Baskete de Kuroko
6. Knight in The Area
7. Sengoku Collection (Samurais do Mundo Paralelo)
8. Sket Dance
9. A Ambição de Oda Nobuna
10. Utakoi
11. Vision
12. Yurumates 3Dei
13. YuruYuri – Primeira Temporada
14. A Namorada Misteriosa X

Usuários comuns vão poder assistir os animes com um atraso de uma semana após a transmissão japonesa e em qualidade SD, já os usuários premium vão poder assistir de imediato com a transmissão japonesa em qualidades que vão até 1080p (Full HD).

Os assinantes Premium têm acesso ao maior acervo de animes online, além de acesso simultâneo a títulos ainda em exibição – sem propagandas – podendo serem assistidos nas qualidades 480p até 1080p conforme o show. Por um tempo limitado, estaremos oferecendo o serviço premium por R$9,99 (Nove reais e noventa e nove centavos). Mais informação sobre os planos de assinatura podem ser encontrados aqui .

Os meios de pagamento disponíveis no momente são os internacionalmente suportados: Cartões de crédito/débito e o Paypal. Estamos avaliando outros meios de pagamento (leia-se boleto bancário, etc) no momento e teremos mais notícias e atualizações na questão futuramente.

Em adição ao nosso website e shows com legendas em português, também lançamos uma área de notícias e um fórum para o Brasil. Por favor, confira os nossos fóruns, converse com os outros usuários da Crunchyroll Brasil e comente os seus shows prediletos! Você também será capaz de encontrar as informações mais recentes nos métodos de pagamente por aqui.

Estamos muito contentes em poder prover animes com legendas em ptBR e oficialmente ao Brasil. Esperamos que vocês aproveitem os nossos serviços!

Just how far will Asakura go to get the money he needs?

What They Say:
Asakura is worried about startup funds, and then everyone gets fraudulent phone calls asking for money.

The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
After some really amusing bits in the previous episode in regards to a certain teachers reality, the show shifts to something a bit more reasonable. With Ishida going on again about the flower shop that he wants to open with Asakura, the talk turns to the funds needed to get the business off the ground, which seems like it’ll run about ten million yen. With Asakura not having the funds to do that, things turn silly as the attempts to gain the funds is basically a whole lot of threatening. Asakura does do his best in order to raise the funds, but he comes up woefully short. But his efforts certainly are rewarded in another way as Ishida is even more intent on achieving this goal seeing just how much Asakura will give towards it.

In Summary:
I’ll be honest at this point and say that when this show ends, I want a show with these two guys running a flower shop just to see if they can pull it off. Part of me suspects that they’d be such a quirky and unusual place that they’d get far more business than one would expect. Watching what the two young men will do to help each other out is pretty much the focus in most of these episodes, when it’s not on boobs and trunks, and this one manages to do some fun stuff in its short run time once again. It’s still an unusual gag comedy but one that I strangely find myself continuing to warm up to.

Grade: C+

Streamed By: Crunchyroll

Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

The game just got bigger.

Creative Staff:
Story: Donny Cates, Eliot Rahal
Art: Geoff Shaw
Colors: Lauren Affe

What They Say:
Indebted superheroes keep turning up dead before the Paybacks can collect. What’s worse, Night Knight suspects there’s a traitor in their midst. In perilous circumstances like these, our heroes do the only sensible thing . . . they split up! Hey, these assets ain’t gonna repossess themselves!

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
The Paybacks has been a pretty fun book in its first two issues, though it has a kind of rough and tumble approach that in some ways is just off-putting for me. I get its tone and what it’s trying to do, but the approach is one that generally doesn’t click for me when you get down to it. What keeps drawing me back are a couple of different things. First, I really like the overall idea of how the financials work here and how Pierce operates since he derives his power from heroes, so having them offed is not a good thing. The other is that there’s an almost Suicide Squad kind of feeling to it in a way as we get a lot of heroes getting offed and some dangerous moments for our leads in the Paybacks. And life ain’t easy for them.

This installment doesn’t wait too long to deal with what Night Knight discovered about Miss Adventure the last time around, namely in that she’s dead. What we get here is an origin story, which does feel a little odd to get, as she explains why she’s both dead and not. It’s a decent enough tale that riffs on familiar origin material, but it’s the post-reveal that’s great as she shows why she’s such a badass with Night Knight. Who really does deserve regular ass kickings with how he acts. The nature of their adventure with what they’re doing is dealt with nicely as they’re finally drawn back by the doctor since Driver is getting pretty antsy as things are getting worse all around. The team dynamic is one that just works so well here as they know they aren’t heroes in this instance yet end up still bonding in the strangest ways. Ice cream Wednesday is just super extra special though.

Amid all of this, we also start to get an idea of what’s going on with the group that’s targeting the heroes that the Paybacks are trying to collect on. When one of the pairings goes off on their next mission, they come across the actual killer still in the act, or at least going through his whole graffiti portion of the act after the killing. This makes for a great action sequence overall with its comedy as he tries to escape but is unable to due to interference with the teleportation device. What it does reveal is that there is a larger game afoot here about who the real killer is. Since they were going on the presumption of a single killer causing the problem, the idea that it could be an operation almost like theirs but with a different goal is pretty damn unsettling. Even for this group of oddballs that aren’t quite sure what their real place in all of this will be at the end of it.

In Summary:
Paybacks has another solid installment, even if I do feel kind of weird about it in a way that I can’t quite pinpoint. I like the raw and rough nature of it with the dialogue, the artwork and the snark in general that we get since it’s balanced with some really amusing humor and lightness. The whole social aspect of the group is hilarious to watch, especially since it just ticks off Driver in a big way as he’s just wanting the job done and none of this other crap. This issue starts to reveal more of what’s going on and it’s definitely curious, even if it doesn’t truly reveal anything useful beyond it not just being a single individual. The whole Racer X angle/comment was spot on though and just adds another nice little layer to it all. I’m definitely curious to see what comes next, and to see if Night Knight can recover enough for someone else to give him a well deserved beating.

Grade: B

Age Rating: 13+
Released By: Dark Horse Comics
Release Date: November 18th, 2015
MSRP: $3.99

It’s caption time again, but first things first is to reveal the winner for last week’s competition:

Not many captions last week, but I did like this one submitted by smashwagon. I did adjust it slightly, but still a great caption!

Just like always, please post a caption to go with the following image. There is no prize, except the knowledge that you are better at putting words into the mouths of anime characters than your peers.

Here is this week’s image:

Ryousuke takes the fight to Galdarblog even as he’s shown a different way his life could have gone.

What They Say:
Galdarblog and Ryousuke finally get a chance to clash swords; each strike puts one closer to their goal.

The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
While the approach to the series has been haphazard at times, I do continue to enjoy the show as something that’s just kind of old school in a way where it doesn’t try to make perfect sense of everything and just have fun. And throw a lot of amusing fanservice our way, though sometimes the censorship arrives before the naughty material even arrives. With the previous episode focusing heavily on Lisara and Iria working together, then not, then working together again while also giving us some sweet, sweet Ryousuke and Quele time, now things are progressing forward again as Galdarblog is advancing his own plans with Mina while Quele and Ryousuke are en route to make sure things don’t go south too quickly.

Unfortunately for them, Galdarblog seems to have the upper hand for the moment, and the most clothes compared to Lisara, as his use of Mina has given him what he needs, leading to quite an intriguing show of power as all the events go his way. Of course, he’s not going to get everything easily as there’s a complication involving Mina that he wasn’t aware of, her provisional contract with Quele, which keeps her at least temporarily safe. But what it doesn’t protect is Lisara and now Galdarblog is intent on beating the snot out of her. Which would be more enjoyable in a way if there weren’t huge blocks of censorship across the screen. It’s not that I want to see her topless, but I want to see the actual action.

While there’s some good action to be had in the first half, things step up more so in the second half with Ryousuke there, something that makes the situation worse since he came with Quele and that’s who Galdarblog needs. But it turns more to the two men going at it with their powerful swords, but with Galdarblog working things so we see various alternate realities that could exist for Lisara and Ryousuke, something that forces him to see it and break through it in order to truly fight back against his powerful opponent. There are certainly some very charming slice of life moments in seeing how the pair lives in this fantasy world, and some very sexual moments as well. There’s some other less than subtle moments that comes from it with Mina, but as a whole it hits some really good notes overall and there’s some more back story revealed that only adds to the intrigue of the series and how everything is connected.

In Summary:
While it’s been a little circular in getting to the point of this otherworldly arc, the series does bring things to some decent conclusions here as the main cast of characters goes head to head with Galdarblog. The character side of it works well here throughout as everyone gets their moment to shine and there are some really fun slice of lice teases that come into play as well. But it all builds up in an epic way, has a conclusion and hints at more potential and danger for Ryousuke. And it also drops in a little end of the world action too which should make for some real fun in the next episode. The little twist, while not entirely unexpected, is handled well in the final minutes and makes you grin, even through the censorship.

Grade: B+

Streamed By: Crunchyroll

Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

Waiting on the ramen to cool…

What They Say:
Urawa no Usagi-chan is an original series centered around the daily lives of 8 girls in junior high school in Saitama prefecture’s Urawa district. Usagi, Tokiwa, Minami, Sakura, Midori, Kojika, Saiko, Misono – Enjoy watching their unique personalities play off against each other as their fun-filled school life unfolds.

The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
With a little fun spent last time around in the series with the morality officer, this episode spends a bit more time at the start with the student council characters that are more interested in gaming than anything else. Amusingly, the show delves into a property called Saitama Ninja Ramen and we even get a little live action gag mixed into it and some cute dialogue about merchandise. For the most par though, it’s really just these two going back and forth for a good part of it until Usagi shows up thinking she smells something good cooking in there. Since it’s the ramen, the show turns into the whole waiting for it to be ready aspect and what they talk about while waiting. Suffice to say, it’s not exactly engaging in the slightest.

In Summary:
While there’s been any number of shows that spend time with characters talking about nothing or minor inconsequential things, Urawa no Usagi-chan is three minutes of emptiness for the most part. It has its cute moments and some of the things it does makes you smile lightly, but it feels insulting to fluff to call this fluff. Fluff generally has a little more going for it. While the premise is decent enough, and I was curious to see how it would promote the Urawa district in Saitama, it’s done almost nothing like that and is just another banal high school show.

Grade: D

Streamed By: Crunchyroll

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Apple TV via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

The upcoming anime TV series adaptation of the manga series Assassination Classroom from Yusei Matsui has gotten a little more information revealed about it. The show is now slated for a January 2015 debut and it will be a late night Friday series when it lands. This news comes after we got the first key visual last week for it, which you can see to the right, and now news that we’ll be getting an commemoration announcement commercial soon on the official site. .

The manga is getting released in North America this December and while there was an OVA created before for the show, the new series will be going its own way. While that was handled by Brain’s Base, this series will be handled at studio Lerche with Seiji Kishi directing it with Makoto Uezeu handling the scripts while Kazuaki Morita will be tackling the character designs. It’s also being said that the cast for the show will not be the same as used for the previous release that was done back in 2013, but that the cast announcement will come later. Kishi is certainly a good choice for a project like this as he’s coming off of his work on some other high profile adaptations such as Persona 4 and Danganronpa while Uezu was involved in the latter as well as Apreggio of Blue Steel and School Days among others.

Plot concept: A humorous and action-packed story about a class of misfits who are trying to kill their new teacher – an alien octopus with bizarre powers and super strength! The teacher has just destroyed the moon and is threatening to destroy the earth – unless his students can destroy him first. What makes things more complicated is that he’s the best teacher they’ve ever had!

[Source: ANN ]

Discotek Media really came into their own in 2014 with the releases they brought out but also in some of their acquisitions for 2015. While the company started off working with established properties, often that were rescues or had been released decades ago with English language dubs, they’ve been branching out after working some of their relationships with more well known fan properties like Lupin the 3rd. With a solid and established reputation now fully there, they’ve been able to pick up more shows, more variety and some more recent materials. They’ve also continued to bring out a lot of older shows that have fallen by the wayside over the years, some that were never licensed but deserving of an audience here, as well as those that needed a rescue. There’s a good mix of stuff in their catalog overall for 2014 and we’ve got a few that definitely stand out for us.

5) DALLOS: Complete OVA Series [ Review ]

As it’s considered the first OVA release in Japan, there’s a solid historical aspect to Dallos that alone makes it worthy of being on any list. What helps to elevate this one is that it comes from Mamoru Oshii, as he was amid his time on some other big Studio Pierrot titles at the time, as it let him flex his creative muscles with Hisayuki Torumi to create something very different from what he was in the midst of when it came to Urusei Yatsura. Getting ahold of this short form series and ensuring that people could see it via Hulu as well definitely worked well.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWXivQL_eCc]

4) Sherlock Hound: Complete Collection

This twenty-six episode series from 1984 is one that gets a lot of attention from the fact that a lot of it was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. And that’s certainly a strong selling point for a very fun series that really should be seen more. It fits into the classic mold of a show that’s all about the simple detective stories with the anthropomorphic side of it, which delights regularly with its humor and style. There’s a lot of appeal for something of this nature when you’re stuck alongside a lot of overly complex, dark and often brutal detective mysteries these days. Going to something that’s more all ages accessible is also a big plus because it’s a great hook for younger viewers.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11jnarZgU2Q]

3) Zombie-Loan: Complete Collection

Though Peach-Pit works have never had a high visibility over here or been hugely successful projects, it was still a surprised when this single season series from 2007 ended up being passed over for several years. Discotek Media took care of that as they brought over the full run, which originally had eleven episodes broadcast with the final two episodes on DVD only, making it hard for awhile for a lot of fans to see them. The release was also a smart move as Yen Press has been releasing the manga here in North America, so there was a bit of additional awareness about the property in general that likely helped it some.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcSL-T5IG6A]

2) School Days: Complete Collection [ Review ]

School Days is one of those series where it definitely can be divisive with anime fans for a lot of reasons. While the cast as a whole may be unlikable, they are engaging in situations that a lot of teens end up in, whether adults want to believe it or not. I loved that the show moved past the whole playful stage and dealt with the real fun in storytelling – the relationships. They’re messy, awkward, leave a bad taste in your mouth at times and push young, emotional and sometimes unstable teenagers into horrible positions where they can’t see any outs. There’s a lot of reasons to really hate this show, but I found a whole hell of a lot of reasons to find each episode to be thrilling to watch. It’s a show that definitely should be seen just to know which side of the fence you’ll end up on.

1) The Lupin World (Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro, Lupin the Third: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty , Lupin the Third: The Complete First TV Series (Re-release), Lupin the Third: The Hemingway Papers)

Having long been a fan of Lupin the 3rd, this was a very good year for fans. While a re-release usually won’t make it on the list, this series definitely deserved it since it came out cheaper and more accessible and it was helped along by having more of the specials/films come out. The Castle of Cagliostro has bounced around over the years, but getting it back in print was welcome as was getting two other specials released. Adding in several new acquisitions along the way for 2015 is only making it an even more exciting time to be a fan of this property since there’s so much fun and energy here from the classics but also through the newer films and specials. And with a new series coming in Japan next year? It’ll be interesting to see where that lands.

The Cold War hysteria may have died, but the embers still burn.

What They Say:
The story centers around a second-generation KGB Cuban sleeper cell, activated & assigned to overthrow the U.S. Government through a series of kidnappings, assassinations and acts of terrorism. But why has the call come now, 50 years after the original cell last heard from Mother Russia?

The Review:
One of the things I like about digital comics is, as dangerous as it can be, it’s easy to browse the virtual bookshelf at any time of the day. And when you see a recommendation come across, an extra plug somewhere about how a book might be intriguing, it doesn’t take much to pop open a window and grab a copy. With some plugging on Twitte by the folks at Comixology, the concept of Pigs was enough to grab me for the first issue here to see what it’s all about. Having grown up and come into consciousness about politics and foreign policy during the final ten years of the Cold War, films and books at the time dealt with it a lot and experiencing films going backwards brought a lot more of it to mind as well. While it’s fallen out of fashion for obvious reasons, it does crop up in interesting ways with all sorts of media over the years since the end of it and Pigs plays to that pretty well.

Taking place largely in the present, Pigs spends a good bit of its time working back and forth in the timeline to tell its story and it mostly works effectively. What hampers it is the lack of names at times, such as the old woman that only gets called Mama in the end as we see some of the scenes from earlier. In the present, she’s being interrogated about the activities that happened back in 1962 when during the whole Bay of Pigs fiasco, the Soviet Union sent in weapons and more to set up missiles there as well as something very different. That different was an agricultural team, something that fell through the cracks over the years as it was the one element that according to intelligence, didn’t make it back on the boat when the whole thing ended. That’s given the authorities the clue that a Cuban sleeper cell exists, though the woman laughs it off and avoids being pinned down about anything, going on about how any such thing would be full of old men now considering it’s been fifty years since then.

While that unfolds, the back and forth shows us the truth of the matter, as seemingly the last of the old men died but what they all left were their children, now adults themselves. And they’ve kept to what their parents did, having been brought up on the Cold War mentality and keeping the mission in mind after all these years. With the death of seemingly the final parent of it all, they’re keeping everything in place but there’s tension amongst them all. What changes it all though is the sudden arrival of a mysterious stranger after the funeral who provides the mission codeword that activates them. The mission itself isn’t seen in detail, but we get the brief lead-up to it and a very good shocker with the last panel that definitely sells it and essentially tells me that I really need to come back for the next issue to see if they can capitalize on it.

Digital Notes:
This Comixology edition of Pigs contains the main cover as seen with the print edition with no variants or other extras included.

In Summary:
While the creative side of Pigs is a completely unknown to me, the book itself works very well and provides for a good concept that starts well even if I’m not a huge fan of the overall execution with the way it jumps back and forth. It’s not a gimmick here, but sometimes more linear storytelling does work better. The Cold War angle works very well in giving us something familiar, at least to older readers, yet different at the same time since so many books of this nature have gone a different sociopolitical route in the last ten years when it comes to threats. And while it’s justified in its own way, there’s something different about going back to this particular well since it capitalizes on old fears, a second generation of it rising that hasn’t been thought about and some actual distinct success that’s happened right from the start. It’s not all about a particular mission getting underway but rather that and the results and where it goes from there. I’m cautiously enthused about it and have some hopes.

Grade: B

Japanese distributor Pony Canyon is handling the home video release for the fall 2015 short-form series Kowabon and have announced their plans for it. Like a lot of short-form shows, it’s getting a DVD-only release that will arrive on January 20th, 2016. The thirteen episode run, which clocks in at forty minutes, will be priced at 4,104 yen. The release will come with a making-of bonus and a booklet.

This horror series is an interesting one as it’s done in the five minute short-form approach and also uses rotoscoping to add to the eerie feeling of it all. It’s being directed by Kazuma Taketani with scripts by Hiromu Kumamoto.

Plot concept: The premise of the series involves modern humanity’s reliance on communications technology such as smart phones and social media. Kowabon poses such questions as: what if something sinister is watching us through all of the cameras that we take for granted? What if a supernatural grudge could propagate through the Internet?

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nd_CM5mmKY]

[Source: Kowabon ]

FUNimation is set to bring out One Piece Film Z on DVD and DVD/BD combo this fall on September 30th, 2014 and at their One Piece panel this weekend, they announced the cast for the feature. It draws a few actors from the LA pool that we don’t see too often in FUNimation dubs, but it adds some good variety to the mix that definitely has us excited to see what they’ll bring to the film. The feature came out back in December 2012 and made $77 million theatrically in Japan, which is $20 million more than the last “traditional” One Piece film with Strong World that came out in 2009 and did $54 million.

Of the new characters, the cast includes:

• Jeremy Schwartz as Z
• Tia Ballard as Young Z
• Lauren Landa as Ain
• Matthew Mercer as Bins
• Ray Hurd as Kizaru

The main cast includes:

• Colleen Clinkenbeard as Luffy
• Luci Christian as Nami
• Sonny Strait as Usopp
• Christopher R. Sabat as Zoro
• Eric Vale as Sanji
• Brina Palencia as Chopper
• Stephanie Young as Robin
• Patrick Seitz as Fanky
• Ian Sinclair as Brook
• Brian Mathis as Garp
• Ed Blaylock as Sengoku
• Andrew Love as Akainu
• Jason Douglas as Aokiji

Plot concept: Said to be comparable to the Ancient Weapons of old, the Marines’ trump card, the “Dyna Stones,” have suddenly been stolen by a group of renegade vigilantes. The terrifyingly powerful man responsible, former Marine Admiral “Z,” now stands in the path of Luffy and his Straw Hat Pirates. Can the Straw Hats defeat “Z” and his crew, or will the New World meet its end at the hands of this mad man?

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV6bxCDKz-w&w=560&h=315]

Aoi’s struggle is keeping her distant.

What They Say:
It’s summer vacation, and Aoi is still feeling down after her unsuccessful climb of Mt. Fuji. But then Hinata’s postcard from the summit finally arrives, prompting Aoi to revisit their first climbing spot – for a surprising discovery.

The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
The adventure to Mt. Fuji was definitely a great one overall, at least for the viewer, as we got to see some beautiful backgrounds and the story of the girls making their climb up the various stations. It’s easy to see why it’s such a destination spot for many to make such climbs. Unfortunately for Aoi, the climb was too much for her physically and she couldn’t make it to the top, which lead to the group splitting up for a bit before reconnecting on the way down. For Aoi, she’s simply crushed and feels bad on so many levels that you can easily it easily eating away at her and leaving her in a place where she’s withdrawing even more.

Now that life is going on again, Aoi is still pretty much in the same bad place and is keeping her distance from the others while feeling largely down about everything. Hinata and Kokona are hanging out together now that Kaede has gone off on her own adventures and the two of them aren’t sure about the best way to help Aoi, which largely has them doing nothing in the end. With all this time alone, Aoi is coping with the situation as well as you could expect of a young woman of this age, and we see her thinking a lot on what lead her to this point with her early time with the others, Hinata in particular, that drew her into climbing.

And that takes on a larger meaning as she goes for a stroll to the local summit that they went on before and she gets reminded in small pieces exactly why she likes climbing. Not that she’s in full gear mode, as it’s a very simple walk overall, but it reinforces her love of the experience in a good way that helps to clear out the cobwebs. It also helps that Hinata shows up along the way and that helps to reinforce how much fun it is to do all of this together, which is where a lot of her guilt was stemming from. The two end up having a good time together and the main rule of climbing comes into play in fixing all of this; just dealing with things step by step.

In Summary:
Rather than being all hugely dramatic, the fallout from Aoi’s incident on Mt. Fuji is pretty well handled across all parties – except for Kaede flitting off to whatever grand adventure awaited her next. With the focus on Aoi as she struggles with what went on and her feelings towards climbing in general, seeing her making the efforts to step out of the shadows she put herself in by doing it herself is welcome, though a little help from Hinata certainly isn’t without merit or unwarranted. These two are the ones where everything started from, so getting them to reconnect a bit here to help Aoi make the final push back to being a part of everything is sweetly and nicely done.

Grade: B

Streamed By: Crunchyroll

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Apple TV via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

A slimy friendship begins.

What They Say:
“The Circumstances of Wakasa’s Friends: Maki Edition”

The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
After a little fun with Kasumi visiting the last time around, which got Wakasa out of the tub and into a kiddie pool for a bit, this episode gives us a small taste of the outside world with Tatsumi coming home only to find a seashell outside of his home. As it turns out, the shell actually has a friend of Wakasa’s in there named Maki, who is utterly afraid of the light with the way it blinds him. Maki is pretty dark in personality as well and also confused about the situation as he though Tatsumi was Wakasa’s girlfriend. Maki is definitely fun to watch with his personality and size, and the way he reacts to Tatsumi as time goes on, bringing a new friendship to life.

In Summary:
The introduction of Maki the snail is definitely a cute and fun piece, especially the whole cleaning sequence that is brief but utterly dirty. Maki’s fun with the way he talks and acts, giving it a rather dark and depressing feeling that’s certainly a contrast from the other characters that have come in. Even Wakasa has a hard time stomaching him from time to time as we see it play out. It’s a cute addition to the world, though it makes you wonder just how many different types of anthropomorphized characters exist in this work as it’ll make for a very busy world for Tatsumi to live in.

Grade: B-

Streamed By: Crunchyroll

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Apple TV via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

Marvel Live! continues to provide a lot of good looks at their properties through multiple vendors and announcements at the San Diego Comic-Con and the latest piece they’ve added is a five and a half minute video that walks us through part of the Kotobukiya booth. Kotobukiya has been doing some amazing statues and figures for a long time and seeing their import versions of the Marvel Comics works, either through the statues or the ARTFX figures, is fantastic. We even get an early look at the Rogue statue that’s in prototype form here to get an idea of what’s going on as part of their Danger Room Sessions line.

We just got in our Spider-Woman statute after waiting for quite some time for it to end up in stock and it’s an amazing piece.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiTjHN-x2KU?rel=0]

It has been an epic multi-volume flashback, but now we know the truth behind Noh-A’s parents and Jack Frost’s connection to her dad. But will this truth lead her to side with Jack and the North District or driver her further away?

Creative Staff
Story & Art: JinHo Ko
Translation: JiEun Park
Adaptation: Arthur Dela Cruz

What They Say
Cornered among the slabs of the Ancient Rock, Helmina comes face-to-face with Dust, head of the West District. With Jack Frost kept busy elsewhere, fighting the West’s vicious pack of warriors, Helmina is forced to test the strength of her powers against the mighty lycanthrope. Alliances will shift and new powers will rise in the battle for dominance and the mirror image!!

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
The Tailor continues to be nearly omnipotent in this world, at least as long as Solomon stays locked up. The Tailor finally pushes Jack the Ripper to the point of accepting the Devils Thread so he is an equal match with Jack Frost and his Devils Thread. Considering both weapons have the same power but different users, it will be intriguing to see how their fighting styles differ. Jack Frost is a ‘rip everyone to shreds’ close combat fighter while Jack the Ripper prefers long-distance attacks and explosives. Their face-off will have to wait as Helmina must turn her focus to battling Dust, leader of the West District, one-on-one.

Readers finally learn why Helmina is called the Witch of the North. Not only does she have magical abilities, but as long as she is touching the Ancient Rock, her powers are magnified. But Dust is the leader of all werewolves and nearly immortal, so how can Helmina hope to keep him at bay, much less destroy him?

It seems the Tailor has successfully manipulated Jack the Ripper into creating the next Mirror Image, and probably the most powerful Mirror Image ever. So has this been Tailor’s goal all along? If so, what is his ultimate goal? Surely it is more than just ruling over Amityville, he is already strong enough to do that if he wanted. Perhaps he thinks to use the new Mirror Image against the eventual return of Solomon, or to destroy Amityville forever?

It is funny, but as much as I enjoyed finally learning the truths behind some of the pivotal mysteries in this series, it also created a few more questions. I have to admit, I am beginning to like this series more, but it took a lot of volumes to get here.

In Summary
This whole volume is one battle laid over the top of the next with nary a breather in-between!

This volume finally answers a lot of questions. What is Helmina’s power and why does Jack Frost follow her? Who was Noh-A’s real dad and did Jack Frost kill him? How are Helmina and Solomon related to each other? Lots of questions finally answered as this very long flashback arc comes to a close and brings the reader right back to the current time frame on the very last few pages; leaving us with one heck of a cliffhanger as Solomon finally breaches his prison and reenters Amityville!!

Content Grade: B-
Art Grade: B-
Packaging Grade: A-
Text/Translation Grade: B

Age Rating: 16+
Released By: Yen Press
Release Date: February 18th, 2014
MSRP: $13.00

The March 2015 release month is underway for digital comics and the first full week has a whole lot to offer fans. The big title for many is the debut of the new Princess Leia miniseries, which comes from Marvel Comics as they commit big to the Star Wars property that they’re now managing. This week sees a few other new things arriving such as The Big Con Job from BOOM as well as Halogen while Dyanmite is starting off some of their Altered States books and the new Blood Queen Vs. Dracula miniseries. Image Comics is debuting Big Man Plans and Descender, which will get a lot of attention, while DC Comics is working its ongoings overall here. Marvel Comics has a few new things this week though beyond Princess Leia as they’re starting off the All-New Hawkeye series as well as Guardians Team-Up.

On the manga side, Viz Media has new installments of One-Punch Man, Claymore, Kiss of the Rose Princess, Naruto, Seraph of the End and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s out. DMP is bringing out the 13th and 14th installments of Erementar Gerade while Seven Seas Entertainment drops the 6th installment of the Sacred Blacksmith manga. TOKYOPOP has just one new release this week with the first installment of Yonen Buzz.

Title	Issue	Publisher
MONDAY RELEASE
Arrow: Season 2.5	14	DC Comics
Pirate Eye: Exiled from Exile	4	Action Lab
TUESDAY RELEASE
Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Three	23	DC Comics
Batwing Vol. 5: Into the Dark	DC Comics
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Vol. 4: What Lies Within	DC Comics
Justice League Dark Vol. 5: Paradise Lost	DC Comics
Time Masters: Vanishing Point (2011)	DC Comics
Batman: Illustrated By Neal Adams, Vol. 1	DC Comics
Batman: Illustrated By Neal Adams, Vol. 2	DC Comics
Batman: Illustrated By Neal Adams, Vol. 3	DC Comics
Crisis On Multiple Earths, Vol. 4	DC Comics
Champions	16	Marvel
Giant-Size Super Villain Team-Up	1	Marvel
Giant-Size Super Villain Team-Up	2	Marvel
Heroes For Hire	15	Marvel
Heroes For Hire	16	Marvel
Heroes For Hire/Quicksilver Annual ’98	1	Marvel
Quicksilver	1	Marvel
Quicksilver	2	Marvel
Quicksilver	3	Marvel
Quicksilver	4	Marvel
Quicksilver	5	Marvel
Quicksilver	6	Marvel
Quicksilver	7	Marvel
Quicksilver	8	Marvel
Quicksilver	9	Marvel
Quicksilver	10	Marvel
Quicksilver	11	Marvel
Quicksilver	12	Marvel
Quicksilver	13	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	1	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	2	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	3	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	4	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	5	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	6	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	7	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	8	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	9	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	10	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	11	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	12	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	13	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	14	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	16	Marvel
Super-Villain Team-Up	17	Marvel
Marvel’s Ant-Man – Scott Lang: Small Time Mcu Infinite Comic	1	Marvel
Avengers: Millennium Infinite Comic	4	Marvel
Avengers: Millennium Infinite Comic	5	Marvel
Avengers: Millennium Infinite Comic	6	Marvel
Part Time Princesses	3	Oni press
One-Punch Man	6	Viz
Claymore	26	Viz
Kiss of the Rose Princess	3	Viz
Naruto	69	Viz
Seraph of the End	4	Viz
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s	7	Viz
Dragons: The Stowaway	Titan
TUESDAY RELEASE: INTERNATIONAL
Salvagers	1	Editions Reflexions
LE CONFESSEUR SAUVAGE	Glénat
ROSA	1	Glénat
LE BARON FOU T01	1	Glénat
GOYA – Les grands peintres	Glénat
JAN VAN EYCK – Les grands peintres	Glénat
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC – Les grands peintres	Glénat
Juan Solo	1	Humano
Juan Solo	2	Humano
Juan Solo	3	Humano
Juan Solo	4	Humano
Juan Solo – Intégrale	Humano
Moebius Oeuvres : Arzach USA	Humano
Moebius Oeuvres : Le Bandard Fou USA	Humano
Moebius Oeuvres : L’Homme du Ciguri USA	Humano
Monsieur Jean	1	Humano
Monsieur Jean	2	Humano
Monsieur Jean	3	Humano
Monsieur Jean	4	Humano
Monsieur Jean	5	Humano
Monsieur Jean – La théorie des gens seuls	Humano
Gargouilles	5	Humano
Gargouilles	6	Humano
Gargouilles	7	Humano
America’s Got Powers	1	Panini FR
Loki	2	Soleil
Lanfeust Mag	183	Soleil
Robocop: Mort ou Vif	2	Wetta
Tombe de la terreur	4	Wetta
GOKUSEN	8	Kazé
Rokka Melt : Mes adorables princes des neiges	1	Kazé
Toriko	22	Kazé
Sugar Soldier	7	Panini
Tsubaki Love	15	Panini
CAGASTER	5	Glénat
WEDNESDAY RELEASE: Digital First
Satanic Hell	3	Alterna
Batman ’66 DC2	55	DC Comics
The Red Panda	10	Monkeybrain
The Double Life of Miranda Turner	6	Monkeybrain
WEDNESDAY RELEASE: INTERNATIONAL
Beano presents Dennis the Menace and Gnasher	3	DC Thomson
Beano presents Dennis the Menace and Gnasher	4	DC Thomson
Beano presents Dennis the Menace and Gnasher	5	DC Thomson
Beano presents Dennis the Menace and Gnasher	6	DC Thomson
Beano presents Dennis the Menace and Gnasher	7	DC Thomson
Beano presents Dennis the Menace and Gnasher	8	DC Thomson
Beano presents Dennis the Menace and Gnasher	9	DC Thomson
The Hounds of Hell	1	Humanoids
The Hounds of Hell	2	Humanoids
The Hounds of Hell	3	Humanoids
The Hounds of Hell	4	Humanoids
The Fantastic Voyage of Lady Rozenbilt	1	Humanoids
The Fantastic Voyage of Lady Rozenbilt	2	Humanoids
The Fantastic Voyage of Lady Rozenbilt	3	Humanoids
The Fantastic Voyage of Lady Rozenbilt	4	Humanoids
WEDNESDAY RELEASE: Day and Date
Crossed +100	3	Avatar
Crossed: Badlands	73	Avatar
God is Dead	30	Avatar
Uber	23	Avatar
Lady Death: Apocalypse	2	Avatar (Boundless)
Orbit: George Lucas: Rise of an Empire	Bluewater
Cluster 2	2	BOOM!
Day Men 6	6	BOOM!
Fiction Squad 6 (of 6)	6	BOOM!
Palmiotti and Brady’s The Big Con Job 1 (of 4)	1	BOOM!
Robocop 9	9	BOOM!
The Woods 11	11	BOOM!
Feathers 3 (of 6)	3	BOOM! (Archaia)
Halogen 1 (of 4)	1	BOOM! (Archaia)
Adventure Time Vol. 6	Collection	BOOM! (KaBOOM!)
Garfield 35 (9 Lives Part Three)	35	BOOM! (KaBOOM!)
Steven Universe 8	8	BOOM! (KaBOOM!)
The Amazing World of Gumball 8	8	BOOM! (KaBOOM!)
Tales of Mr. Rhee Karmageddon	4	Devil’s Due
Project Superpowers: Blackcross 1: Digital Exclusive Edition	1	Dynamite
Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo 4: Digital Exclusive Edition	4	Dynamite
Blood Queen vs Dracula 1: Digital Exclusive Edition	1	Dynamite
Altered States: Vampirella 1: Digital Exclusive Edition	1	Dynamite
Army of Darkness Vol. 4 4: Digital Excluisve Edition	4	Dynamite
Creeping Death from Neptune	Collection	Fantagraphics
Star Trek: New Visions 5: A Scent of Ghosts	5	IDW
Winterworld 0	0	IDW
My Little Pony: Friends Forever 14	14	IDW
Robert Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy 1	1	IDW
Shadow Show 4	4	IDW
Star Trek/Planet of the Apes 3	3	IDW
Godzilla: Rulers of Earth 21	21	IDW
Monster Motors: Curse of Minivan Helsing 1	1	IDW
Powerpuff Girls Super Smash-Up 2	2	IDW
Transformers 38: Days of Deception	38	IDW
G.I. Joe (2014-) 6	6	IDW
Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye 38	38	IDW
68: Jungle Jim: Guts n’ Glory	One Shot	Image
Alex + Ada Vol. 2	Collection	Image
Big Man Plans	1	Image
Birthright Vol. 1: Homecoming	Collection	Image
Black Science	12	Image
Dark Engine	5	Image
Descender	1	Image
Egos	6	Image
God Hates Astronauts	6	Image
Nailbiter Vol. 2: Bloody Hands	GN	Image
Nailbiter / Hack/Slash Hack/Slash / Nailbiter	One Shot	Image
Nameless	2	Image
Rat Queens	9	Image
Revival	28	Image
Saga	26	Image
Supreme: Blue Rose	7	Image
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor	8	Titan
Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor	9	Titan
Penguins of Madagascar	4	Titan
I Play the Bad Guy	3	Trajectory
X-O Manowar (2012)	34	Valiant
Imperium	2	Valiant
Unity Vol. 4: The United	Collection	Valiant
Grimm Fairy Tales: White Queen: Age of Darkness	2	Zenescope
Zombies vs. Cheerleaders St. Patty’s Day One Shot	One Shot	Zenescope
Aquaman and The Others	11	DC Comics
Batman Eternal	48	DC Comics
Detective Comics	40	DC Comics
Earth 2	32	DC Comics
Earth 2: World’s End	22	DC Comics
Grayson	8	DC Comics
Green Arrow	40	DC Comics
Green Lantern	40	DC Comics
Harley Quinn	15	DC Comics
Infinity Man and the Forever People	8	DC Comics
Justice League 3000	15	DC Comics
Lobo	6	DC Comics
Swamp Thing	40	DC Comics
The New 52: Futures End	44	DC Comics
Hinterkind	16	DC Comics
The Names	7	DC Comics
Wolf Moon	4	DC Comics
All-New Hawkeye	1	Marvel
Angela: Asgard’s Assassin	4	Marvel
Avengers	42	Marvel
Avengers World	18	Marvel
Death Of Wolverine: The Weapon X Program	Collection	Marvel
Guardians Team-Up	1	Marvel
Hawkeye Vs. Deadpool	Collection	Marvel
Hulk	12	Marvel
Iron Fist: The Living Weapon	10	Marvel
Marvel’s Ant-Man Prelude	2	Marvel
Marvel’s The Avengers: Age Of Ultron Prelude	Collection	Marvel
Miracleman	16	MAX
Operation: S.I.N.	3	Marvel
Princess Leia	1	Marvel
Return Of The Living Deadpool	2	Marvel
Rocket Raccoon	9	Marvel
Spider-Woman	5	Marvel
Super-Villains Unite: The Complete Super-Villain Team-Up	Collection	Marvel
Wolverines	9	Marvel
X-Men	25	Marvel
WEDNESDAY RELEASE: Submit
Drawn Onward	Retrofit Comics / Big Planet Comics
Cafe Racer	Essential Sequential
Immense Robot 3	3	Mass Transit Comics
Box 13	Bottled Lightning
High Moon	Bottled Lightning
The Battle of the Blood Moon 1	1	Holly Hunt
The Citric Arc	J W C
Slowheart 1	1	Ellipsium Entertainment
The Alternate 1	1	Atom Age
Pirates of Mars 1	1	Robo Picto Books
To Kill a Dragon 2	2	SmudgeMarks & EngelWerks
King Bone Presents 1	1	King Bone Press
Team Genesis 2	2	FarCorners Studios
Monster City 1	1	Waterfoot
The Adventures of The Green Thumb & Purple Haze	Ntr Sentra Productions
The Chronic 1	1	Sentient Comics
Blues for the Red Sun	White Dude
Pregnant Bitches of War 5	5	Fried Comics
Sorcery 101 15	15	Kel McDonald
Silver 4	4	Dark Planet Comics
reMind Vol. 2	Coffee Table Comics
RevolveЯ Quarterly 3	3	Spilt Ink
Swamp Tales 1	1	Reckless Sidekick Productions
Illustrated Girl 2	2	Enigma Endeavors Productions LLC
Hollow’s Prism 3	3	Green Eyed Unicorn Comics
100% Biodegradable 8	8	Biomekazoik
Theodicy 1	1	Chad Handley
The Cray Baby Adventures 3	3	Aw Yeah Comics
F. Stein, Consulting Detective	0	BiMor Comics
File 13 1	1	Castle Comics
Ralph Snart Adventures 5	5	Marc Hansen Stuff
Autumn Grey 4	4	Eden Park Tales
Holy Cow Comics 5	5	Holy Cow Comics
Z’Isle 2	2	Miscellaneum Studios
Dar 1	1	Erika Moen
Uncanny Adventures 2013	8th Wonder Press
The End: Survival	Padraic Productions
Strip For Me 25	25	Strip For Me
The Misadventures of Clark & Jefferson 4	4	Cinemacomics
The Disc 1	1	Cinemacomics
WEDNESDAY RELEASE: Backlist
Zombie Tramp Vol 3	8	Action Lab
Gold Digger	218	Antarctic
The Black Hood (Impact Comics)	3	Archie – Dark Circle Comics
The Black Hood (Impact Comics)	4	Archie – Dark Circle Comics
Velda: Girl Detective	Collection	Caliber
Nosferatu 1	1	Caliber
Nosferatu 2	2	Caliber
Nosferatu	Collection	Caliber
Orlak	Collection	Caliber
Gestalt: A Seeker Tale 0	Caliber
Erementar Gerade Vol. 13	Collection	DMP
Erementar Gerade Vol. 14	Collection	DMP
Vampirella (Magazine 1969-1983)	1	Dynamite
Vampirella (Magazine 1969-1983)	2	Dynamite
Vampirella (Magazine 1969-1983)	3	Dynamite
Vampirella (Magazine 1969-1983)	4	Dynamite
Vampirella (Magazine 1969-1983)	5	Dynamite
Vampirella (Magazine 1969-1983)	6	Dynamite
Vampirella (Magazine 1969-1983)	7	Dynamite
Meat Cake	16	Fantagraphics
Hate	19	Fantagraphics
Dungeon Quest Book Three Issue 9	9	Fantagraphics
Undone by Her Tender Touch	GN	Harlequin
Rescued by the Brooding Tycoon	GN	Harlequin
An Innocent Bride	GN	Harlequin
Evan	GN	Harlequin
Bond of Hatred	GN	Harlequin
Flare	37	Heroic
Flare Adventures	17	Heroic
Icicle	5	Heroic
WitchGirls Inc.	3	Heroic
Star Trek: Harlan Ellison’s City on the Edge of Forever	Collection	IDW
Wasteland Vol. 5	Collection	Oni
The Sacred Blacksmith Vol. 6	Collection	Seven Seas
Yonen Buzz Vol. 1	Collection	TOKYOPOP
The Sadhu	1	Trajectory
The Sadhu	2	Trajectory
The Sadhu	3	Trajectory
The Sadhu	4	Trajectory
The Sadhu	5	Trajectory
The Sadhu	6	Trajectory
The Sadhu	7	Trajectory
The Sadhu	8	Trajectory
G. P. Sippy’s Sholay Vol. 1: Gabbar	Collection	Trajectory
DC COMICS
Catwoman (1993-2001)	92	DC Comics
Flash, The (1959-1985)	147	DC Comics
Green Lantern (1990-2004)	128	DC Comics
Justice League of America (1960-1987)	25	DC Comics
Justice League of America (1960-1987)	124	DC Comics
Justice League Quarterly (1990-1994)	3	DC Comics
Legion of Super-Heroes (1984-1989)	9	DC Comics
Looney Tunes (1994- )	83	DC Comics
Mister Miracle (1989-1991)	6	DC Comics
Outsiders (2003-2007)	35	DC Comics
Supergirl (2005-2011)	54	DC Comics
Tangent Comics: JLA	1	DC Comics
Tangent Comics: The Joker	1	DC Comics
Tangent Comics: Wonder Woman	1	DC Comics
The All New Atom (2006-2008)	18	DC Comics
The All New Atom (2006-2008)	19	DC Comics
The Outsiders (1985-1988)	1	DC Comics
The Spectre (1992-1998)	23	DC Comics
Wonder Woman (1942-1986)	216	DC Comics
Captain Atom (1965-1967)	83	DC Comics
Captain Atom (1965-1967)	84	DC Comics
Captain Atom (1965-1967)	85	DC Comics
Captain Atom (1965-1967)	86	DC Comics
Swamp Thing (1982-1996)	86	DC Comics
Codename: Knockout	13	DC Comics
House of Secrets (1996-1998)	18	DC Comics
THURSDAY RELEASE
Daredevil By Frank Miller & Klaus Janson Vol. 2	Collection	Marvel
Fear Itself: The Home Front	Collection	Marvel
G.L.A.: Misassembled	Collection	Marvel
She-Hulk Vol. 9: Lady Liberators	Collection	Marvel
X-Men: Emperor Vulcan	Collection	Marvel
Sensation Comics	27	DC Comics
FRIDAY RELEASE
Betty & Veronica Sleepover Special	Archie
Batman: Arkham Knight	3	DC Comics
SATURDAY RELEASE
Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga	36	DC Comics
SUNDAY RELEASE
Mortal Kombat X	10	DC Comics

Kansas City, MO /NY, NY/ Gardena, CA (June 8, 2011) – Digital Manga Publishing, one of the manga industry’s most unique and creative publishers is proud to announce the partnership with comiXology, the leading distributor of digital comics, to digitally release their flagship manga title Vampire Hunter D to the comiXology storefront for the iOS, Android and Web. Volumes 1-3 will make its debut, while volumes 4-5 will be available in the following weeks.

Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D print edition manga was launched in 2007 by Digital Manga Publishing, adapting the well renowned series of prose novel series, which began in the 80’s. Kikuchi mixed elements of gothic horror, science fiction and romance with the classic Western to produce a wholly original, post-apocalyptic vision of the distant future, where humanity is ruled by vampires and tormented by a host of creatures including demons, werewolves and mutants, as well as half-human, half-vampire ‘dhampirs’ like the series’ namesake, D.

“Manga has been in the brick and mortar comic book shops for several decades and Digital Manga Publishing would like to carry on that tradition to the digital frontier,” said Fred Lui, VP-Production of Digital Manga. ”We are partnering with comiXology because of the ubiquitous platform that they have built and the amazing reading experience they are able to provide.”

The Vampire Hunter D manga and novels have an international fan base, having sold more than 17 million copies around the world. The property has also been adapted into two anime movies, an audio drama, and a video game. The entry of the Vampire Hunter D manga into the digital edition arena will prove to be equally successful, especially with the reading experience when delivered through comiXology’s Comic App.
“The addition of Digital Manga’s Vampire Hunter D with it’s rich story telling is a great addition to our platform,’ said David Steinberger, CEO of comiXology. “The manga looks especially vibrant in our Guided View format on the iPad and we look forward to adding more of Digital Manga’s titles to our platform in the coming months.”

Through this partnership Digital Manga Publishing will be releasing more of their acclaimed titles through comiXology platform.

All volumes of Vampire Hunter D will be available on the comiXology platform for $9.99 each with 20 pages of the first volume can be read for free. You can find their dedicated web storefront at http://comics.comixology.com/dmp and all purchases are buy once, read anywhere.

With just about a month until its theatrical debut in Japan, the next piece of the Monogatari franchise has received a new teaser trailer with Kizumonogatari. It’s being broken into the three pieces with the first film, Tekketsu-hen, debuting on January 8th, 2016.

The other two films, Nekketsu-hen and Reiketsu-hen will get their dates later.

The first film has set Akiyuki Shinbou as the chief director with Tatsuya Oishi directing it. Akio Watanabe and Hideyuki Morioka are on board for the character designs and Shaft is once again handling the production for it.

Plot concept: I think it’s about time I talked about Kiss-Shot-Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade. I believe it’s something I have to do. I met her in the spring break between my second and third years of high school. That meeting had such impact, and was also quite devastating.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTKsldVRw8]

New Comic Book Day is back again and it’s a glorious thing. This week has a lot of things going on with new books arriving across the board and plenty of fans to dig into with ongoing series. On the new front, BOOM! is kicking off Sleep Hollow: Providence while IDW Publishing heads in with String Drivers, BOY-1 and the start of the 11th season of X-Files. Image Comics goes for ongoings and collections, including new Walking Dead, while also debuting The Beauty and Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl. Lion Forge has joined the service and has seven installments of Airwolf Airstrikes debuting today. A hopefully big release today is the first DC Comics: Bombshells series with its print edition but it also serves as a digital compilation of the first couple of installments in one book. Marvel is all ongoings here but they do have the fifth Secret Wars issue finally arriving and a number of great collections – including the newly recolored The Empire Strikes Back.

On the manga side, it’s another weak week as only DMP has new material out. They’ve got the standalone installments of Little Cry Baby and Lost Boys.

WEDNESDAY RELEASE: Digital First
The Mad Mummy	5	Asylum	1.99
Jesus Christ Demon Slayer	1	Asylum	1.99
Killing Castro #3	3	Caliber	2.99
Boy Zero #3	3	Caliber	$2.99
Teen Titans Go	22	DC Comics	0.99
Kings and Canvas	0	Monkeybrain	0.99
Drone: Fatal Error	4	Red 5	1.99
Thanatos Diver	2	Th3rd World	1.99
WEDNESDAY RELEASE: Day and Date
Gravedigger	2	Action Lab	1.99
RoboCopper	Antarctic	1.99
Archie Comics Double Digest	263	Archie	5.99
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Popeye Classics #37	37	IDW	3.99
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Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl #1 Of 6	1	Image	3.99
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Savior #5	5	Image	2.99
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Starve #3	3	Image	2.99
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The Walking Dead #145	145	Image	2.99
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Airwolf Airstrikes	1	Lion Forge	1.99
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Hopeless Savages: Break	Oni	13.99
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Letter 44	19	Oni	3.99
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor	14	Titan	3.99
Doctor Who: 2015 Event	1	Titan	3.99
Death Sentence – London	3	Titan	3.99
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Grimm Fairy Tales	113	Zenescope	3.99
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Constantine: The Hellblazer	3	DC Comics	2.99
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Justice League United	12	DC Comics	3.99
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?	60	DC Comics	2.99
Starfire	3	DC Comics	2.99
A-Force	3	Marvel	3.99
Amazing Spider-Man	20.1	Marvel	3.99
Black Panther By Christopher Priest: The Complete Collection Vol. 1	Collection	Marvel	29.99
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Ghost Racers	3	Marvel	3.99
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Secret Wars 2099	4	Marvel	3.99
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Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back	Collection	Marvel	19.99
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Two Posh Old Ladies Who Found Themselves in a bit of a Zombie Apocalypse	Nic Lawson Comics	0.99
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Deacon Trash: Homeless Nekromancer #1	NEÖTRASH COMIX	3.99
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Protege Vol. 1	Madjoint Productions	4.99
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Shepherd #1	Lodie Publishing	0.99
Future(s)	Altata Comics	4.99
100% Biodegradable #9	Biomekazoik	0.99
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Épilogue #1	Dude, What? Comics	0.99
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Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #92	BroadSword Comics	2.99
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Cravenlore #1	Black Spire	3.99
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Oceanus: Act One	FutureDude Entertainment	14.99
Dartman #1	Will Lill Comics	0.99
Cy-Boar #10	Nevo Digital	0.99
The Dharma Punks #6	Earth’s End	1.99
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CrumbSnatchers Vol. 1	CS Press	6.99
So So Far	Consumptive Press	0.99
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The Complete Charlatan Tales	Alfie Gallagher	0.99
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Courage	Red King Press	3.99
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Djinn Tales #1	Dark Avenue Entertainment	2.99
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Knifed	Incendiary Books	0.99
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Red Sonja 35th Anniverssary Cover Showcase	one-shot	Dynamite	3.99
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Dungeon Quest Book Three	14	Fantagraphics	1.99
Grant Morrison’s 18 Days	1	Graphic India	0.99
Captive at the Sicilian Billionaire’s Command	GN	Harlequin	5.99
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G.I. Joe (2014-), Vol. 2: The Fall of G.I. Joe Part 2	Collection	IDW	7.99
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Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Archives	31	Titan	2.99
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Adventures of Superman (1986-2006)	523	DC Comics	1.99
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Batman (1940-2011)	35	DC Comics	1.99
Flash, The (1959-1985)	192	DC Comics	1.99
Flash, The (1959-1985)	193	DC Comics	1.99
Green Lantern (1990-2004)	170	DC Comics	1.99
Green Lantern (1990-2004)	171	DC Comics	1.99
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Supergirl (1996-2003)	19	DC Comics	1.99
Superman (1987-2006)	101	DC Comics	1.99
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Deadman (2006-2007)	11	DC Comics	1.99
Deadman (2006-2007)	12	DC Comics	1.99