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Sakura-Con: Dark Horse

posted on 2006-04-02 19:17 EDT by Jonathan Mays

Dark Horse has acquired Hiroaki Samura's Ohikkoshi, the Samurai Champloo TV artbook, and manwha series Access Hybrid, Shaman Warrior, and Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man.

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This light novel series changes up the formula by focusing on a regular fantasy world denizen and a summoned hero who is NOT interested in saving the world. ― It's a truth that most iterations of the isekai genre focus on the summoned heroes. Equally true is that they're usually relatively okay with having been summoned – and if they're not, they still manage to find their niche somehow or at least t...

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Your beloved alien 'bot vehicle boys are back but this time the war is at home. Is this grittier entry in the kids' toy franchise a masterpiece in disguise? ― Netflix dropped the six-episode Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy: Siege!, the first part in a planned animated trilogy by Polygon Pictures. Your beloved alien 'bot vehicle boys are back but this time the war is at home. Is this grittier...

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