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In Part 2 of Show 85, Daryl reviews the anime OAV adaptation of Go Nagai’s highly influential and highly infamous series, Violence Jack. Want the whole show right now in one file? It’s on the website as a direct download ONLY as our segmented RSS feed release experiment continues. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

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Hi guys. People still download Dragon Ball Z whenever they have to see some mind blowing action. Not just as a TV show, Dragon Ball Z has proved itself in video games too.

With that effect, the most awaited video game Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team is all ready to release in the coming month, for the PSP system.

I know, you people are excited to take the controls in your hand.

The game will be released on October 19, 2010 with an ESRB rating of T for Teen. So teens, get ready to land on the battle field. Guys, to win all the battles, you need to know some tactics. For this, you need to watch Dragon Ball Z online to come across all the tactics.

Guys, the all new Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team comes with 70 playable and extremely customizable characters, multiple modes, and gameplay.

70 characters and their customization, gives a wide range of players to choose from. I can say that the action is loaded in a small device. This game will add more spice in the lives of the fans, who watch Dragon Ball Z episodes online regularly. With that, the fans will have an opportunity to get an experience of fighting with the other characters.

Guys, let me tell you a detailed description. The fans can get into high-impact two vs. two combat in the game for the PSP. Single player option is obvious, but this game gives us the privilege to team up via Ad Hoc mode to handle unforgettable fights.

Along with that, it provides the opportunity to play in different modes like Dragon Walker, Battle 100, and Survival Mode.

Talking of Dragon Walker Mode, it’s a story mode, where the player will be taken through the entire story of Dragon Ball Z, from the Saiyan saga to the Majin Buu saga.

So guys, when you play Walker Mode, you will feel like viewing Dragon Ball Z TV show.

Besides this, Battle 100 Mode tasks players to revive the most epic encounters and recently shaped settings from the Dragon Ball Z world, in the toughest situation ever.

So pals, watch Dragon Ball Z episodes online to get a better understanding of the game.

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In part 3 of Show 85 Gerald reviews Bobby’s Girl, a forgotten classic of the 1980s. Want the whole show right now in one file? It’s on the website as a direct download ONLY as our segmented RSS feed release experiment continues. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

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A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by Moto Hagio (Fantagraphics, 2010)

Classics… what is the age or what is the quality that is considered to be a classic? I heard that Fushigi Yuugi is considered a classic in an anime.. yet I also heard Battle Royale is considered to be a classic title, despite of it only coming out in this past decade. Now with all my talk about classics.. A Drunken Dream and Other Stories is most definitely a collective work of classic shojo titles. When I saw this at my library, I definitely grabbed it up.. this is a book mentioned by Deb Aoki as being the Best New Manga of 2010. Of course new is a subjective term, new is for the English readers who picks up this book to read.

The mangaka herself is considered to be part of the Magnificent 49′s, a term coined for a group of mangaka that have definitely revolutionized the trend of shojo and josei manga. This is very much like how Kikuko Inoue had playfully called herself as part of a Forever 17 group back at Otakon.

This book is considered to be a sample of her continuing work, and there is an insightful interview that is from the back of the book. Many of the stories in this book are well thought out. There are themes of coming of age, life/death, and definitely issues that females and males would find of interest. Stories that definitely stood out for me in this book are Bianca, Hanshin: Half God, Angel Mimic, and Iguana Girl. If you do get a chance to read this book, then what would be the stories that stand out for you?

Expression priceless as she strips..

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So the title trend was Blue, Red, Lion and Eagle…

As the week of One Piece on MMF draws to a close. I find myself inspired to at least get out another article for this week of feasting. Earlier this week I wrote this entry for my own blog. So I am am selfishly indulgent to drag Anime Diet into the feast. Now I am still on my tip toes just reading other blogger’s impressions, and thinking about a personal invested and beloved series. All I have to say that I can contribute some more is of my love for Color Walk, which is the artbook equivalent to this long running series of 60+ volumes.

The Color Walks are released infrequently, since I can only imagine it would happen when the mangaka has time to oversee projects like this. Nearly all other popular series like Gundam, and Evangelion to name a few anime titles get this type of treatment in Japan. There are other franchise business other than the manga, and for the One Piece lineup, there are the Data Books, or Linear art books or Production work books.

Benefits of a Color Walk

• Color Walks are used to highlight or recap key images from the various manga arcs, giving it the Color treatment, so it is very much like a yearbook, since in the pages table of content mentions years.
• You have to be a fan to really really appreciate throwing the money onto getting this. Since it is very much a coffee table book purchase.
• Fan keepsake, since it take a lot of shelf space to keep 60+ volumes, so to know that these are representative art work from those periods make it more nice.
• Knowing the artist’s feelings when making these is nice, there’s always pages of notes at the end of the book.
• Shows a linear development/improvement of art. Because I have always been in the mindset that initially the art was hard to get into for One Piece, so to see the art evolve into the later art is a great record to have.

So far of the four Color Walks that has been published, only one of them got picked up to be released in English from Shonen Jump. Watching the price of all of the existing Color Walk being sold for + by Amazon sellers shows of a market that is tied to how much supply and demand that there is.

Tying back into my own blog post…..

As I was in the middle of reading the arcs of Waters 7 and Thriller Bark. One Piece Color Walk 4 specifically featured art from the Waters7 arc. I was quite happy to finally read a translation of a mini-story in Volume 32, which is around the area of Davy Fights Back mini-arc. This I believe mostly ties into the initial wish of what type of people Luffy wants on board his ship, so for this mini-story, it showcases music and food for him.

The 5th Color Walk: Shark, is going to be out soon, and New York’s Kinokuniya will have in in the next two weeks or so, since its release date is December 6 in Japan. It would probably include images from Thriller Bark, Sabaody Archipelago, and Amazon Lily. I am grasping at straws if I am going to hope that Impel down be included, since the Color Walks are often a year or two, OKAY Five years behind. I can only try to predict what is in it. I do see the recent calender that is for One Piece in 2011, that has more possible future Color Walk inclusion.

I am right now putting on my hopes to see more inclusion of Franky and Brooks to finally be integrated within the art pages of the Color Walk line up. Randomly, the Mugiwara Crew got showcased from the very beginning on the covers of the Color Walk, but that doesn’t mean the cover reflect the contents

For fans it definitely is a dent in the wallet, and prolongs the longevity of the series, so in a good and bad way. Critics would mention that this is just placing the series to another level. I was recently having a conversation with @OtakuDan, and we got into the conversation of when will the big 3 end.. The big 3 meaning, Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece. He disclosed that all three series had a time skip. Just knowing when One Piece can gratefully bow out is probably going to be Edo’s call. If he still has the vision, then he would be going on with the series, so with this success, will the story become a big fish?

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