First off, devoted Bleach fans should do themselves a favor and pick up the Bleach SOULs. Official Character Book at their earliest convenience. It’s a great overview of the series present storyline up to Vol 21, as well as containing biographical info for all 80+ characters. Throw in an interview with Tite Kubo, glossary of terms, and a bunch of bonus manga and you’ve pretty much got a “must have” for Bleach heads (along with Kon-patterned underpants).
Secondly, the latest Anime Insider magazine is devoted a whole issue to “Video Games for Otakus”, a subject near and dear to my heart. In fact, they do a fine job of tabulating the “otaku quotient” (i.e. number of anime/Japanese culture – specific titles) for the current console systems. I’ve been struggling to find the system with the most otaku-friendly titles, and I guess it’s no surprise that (spoiler) the Nintendo DS wins out there. I’d suggest hot-footing down to the local newsstand to pick up a copy – not just because of the content, but because Anime Insider will be stopping publication as of this issue, #67. Another one bites the dust, sadly….
And speaking of anime-friendly video games, I’m dying to see a North American version of Sunday X Magazine: Taisen Action, Trigger Heart, a side-scrolling 2D fighter starring the characters from Japanese manga magazines Shonen Sunday and Shonen Magazine. The cast includes characters from Negima (awesome!), Fairy Tale, Air Gear, Cromartie High School, Inu-Yasha, Hayate the Combat Butler, and Kekkashi, as well as several other Japan-only series. If you simply must have a copy, its $60 and in Japanese…but I doubt that’ll stop some of you.
In any event, it’s a lovely spring day outside….and naturally, I plan to spend it indoors watching the original Tenchi Muyo OVA and playing Suikoden III (har har).
* with the notable exception of the awesomely funny (and disturbing gory) “magical girlfriend” parody series Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan, aka “Club-To-Death Angel Dokuro-chan”.
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one of the best animes in the history of mankind need a excellent game like this, in any case a game based in this anime is to hard to made and consuming a lot of graphics.
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