Lucky Star is another 4koma–4-panel comic strip–slice-of-life series revolving around the lives of a group of contemporary Japanese high school girls. (When Japan hits on a theme that sells, it stays the course.) It’s also one of those series that plays heavily to its moe aspects, though not to the level of Strike Witches (as that would be [...]

I think the main flaw of Le Portrait de Petit Cossette is that it was trying to be like Evangelion. The problem with this is that there can only be one Evangelion, as evidenced by the fact that I’m using Eva as an example of what Petit Cossette tried to do. But that aside! Petit Cossette is a sort of time-traveling [...]

Gunslinger Girl is a scifi series set in a near-future Italy, though it makes use of a lot of political issues that occurred in the country in the last decade (so really, it’s more like a past-future Italy). It focuses on Section 2, the Social Welfare division, the real meat of which is composed of [...]

Another post that exists due to talking with our teen librarian Rachel! She mentioned that she’d watched “This show that starts with a B, and it’s got immortals,” to which I replied “. . . Starts with B, immortals…and it’s not Black Butler? Huh. I don’t think I know omg do you mean Baccano?” “Yeah, that [...]