Bonus Round – Blood Rubies Are Forever

In our second contribution for the Bonus Round on Anime3000, Narutaki looks at the first Dragon Ball movie. Before there was the many levels of Super Saiyan and space aliens aplenty there was the story of young Goku trying to find the Dragon Balls while flying around on a cloud. Narutaki looks at the retelling of the origins of the Dragon Ball franchise now that it has finally been released uncut for an English-speaking audience. I hope you don’t mind that to pay the bills we threw on a little commercial for a driving school. They are sort of the international version of the RED Driving School. If this goes well maybe Anime3000 can get some more sponsors in the future.

Anime3000 – Bonus Round – Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies

The Transformers Influence?

I recently started watching the giant robot series Brave Police J-Decker from the early 90’s. It is part of the Yuusha franchise which was started by Takara who make Transformers, you can see it pretty easily in the designs. But it got me thinking about the influence of Transformers on the robot genre. Or rather it made me wonder what exactly the influence has been.

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No Case Too Small: Yankee-kun to Megane-chan

The case in question is chapters 115-117 of Yankee-kun to Megane-chan.

hisuiconThe story starts off without a hint of mystery. The new student council is taking a trip to a beach-side inn to plan for the upcoming school festival alongside the old student council made up of the main characters. They blow through their meeting to get as much fun in the sun as they can and then relax at the inn when night falls. But when they find Izumi has been attacked and is covered in seaweed and fish. After talking to a local hooligan who works at the inn the group discovers they have triggered the wrath of a local sea-god. They barge into the only other occupied room in the inn and find an ominous message that they all shall feel the wrath of the curse. Soon they are being taken out one by one in an equally bizarre manner.  Can Shinagawa discover who or what is behind the attack before they are all subject to the brunt of this fearsome grudge?

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