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Otakon 2010

Otakon 2010 has begun! Check back daily over the weekend for news, panel reports, cosplay galleries and more!

Now Available:
Opening Ceremonies
Vertical Inc. featuring Felipe Smith
2010-07-30

Hey, Answerman! - For Anime's Sake
Answerman returns from the brink of mental exhaustion to do battle with questioneering once more! This week, will One Piece get canceled? Will anime on TV be canceled, forever? And what about anime for anime's sake?!? Plus your views on the summer movie season on Answerfans and more! 2010-07-30

Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Ceres: Celestial Legend
Jason reaches into the deep catalog of Yuu Watase and pulls out Ceres: Celestial Legend, a story with some puzzling gender issues. 2010-07-29

Anime News Nina! Special Edition Part V
Grandmas and yaoi: two great tastes that taste great together. 2010-07-28

Welcome to The Space Show
How much you enjoy Welcome to the Space Show will depend largely on how much you value a coherent narrative.

Dengeki Daisy GN 1
...mix Dengeki Daisy's more predictable shoujo-elements with a hint of school drama, a dash of computer hacking and a cellphone to tie it all together and you have a winning combination that feels far less average in its execution..

Yotsuba&! GN 8
Has its weak spots, but they quiver, pale and frightened, before the joie de vivre stamped on every other page.

Bleach DVD 30
Ichigo visits the Visoreds to learn how to control his Hollow side, and the ultimate goal of Aizen's grand plot gets revealed, in this latest Bleach installment. While it does have some interesting developments, it does not do anything excitingly different or break any new ground.

Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
For those who enjoy the thrill of massive robots fighting each other, this feature is pure animated bliss, although the act of cramming a TV story arc into two hours does hamper the plot. Not that anyone really watches this for plot substance anyway.

Slam Dunk Episodes 1-26 Streaming
If Touch is the honor student and Fighting Spirit the friendly jock, then Slam Dunk is the class clown. In a good way.

Negima! GN 26
There have been better volumes of Negima! than this one. The kind of churning and plot maintenance going on in this installment doesn't make for very effective storytelling.

Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei GN 6
The one big knock against Zetsubou-sensei has always been that the humor is hit-and-miss—but Volume 6 looks like the first to have nonstop hits all the way through.

Maoh: Juvenile Remix GN 1
The do-or-do-not power-debate parallels to Ando's own personal questioning as a whole – how much effect can a person's words have and what is someone's personal responsibility to stop being a bystander to injustice? While its direction remains up the air, Maoh Juvenile Remix opens with a compelling first volume full of questions worth trying to answer.

Golgo 13 Collection 1
Premier assassin Golgo 13 is out to execute a baker's dozen of hits in this dubbed release of the first quarter of his first TV series. This purely episodic series gets its appeal from its widely-varied scenarios and watching Golgo's consummate professionalism and unstoppable skill in action, not from character or plot developments.

My-HiME DVD 3
My-HiME is simple, rock-solid entertainment, no more, no less; and while on the surface disposable, this particular set of episodes serves as a springboard for later developments and is awash in important details, so watch carefully.