It was meant as a callback to the late Tokyopop's "100% Authentic" branding, which really was meant to get around the fact they were initially too shoestring an operation to afford flipping their manga.

Speaking of previously-unseen Twilight Zone episodes, I happened into "A Passage For Trumpet" this weekend. Being so used to Jack Klugman from Quincy (and, mostly before my time, The Odd Couple), seeing him so young and desperate here was really something. This is the kind of TZ episode that people forget Serling made…

It's not fundamentally different, but because it's all black and white, the page count can afford to be much longer. The great graphic novels like Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns will run a couple hundred pages, while a Nausicaa or Akira will run a couple thousand. The pages are sometimes less dense and take the…

Added Seitokai Yakuindomo* to my Crunchyroll queue, and FFS, this anime is is the filthiest f'ing thing I have seen in years.

Dad: Will someone tell me why I keep seeing these goddamn Betamax Musicals?
Veronica: Because you're an idiot.
Dad: Oh yeah, that's right.
Mom: You two…
Veronica: Well, I better motor if I wanna get to that revival of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark

Also "Jarhand", the first single off Fables, has choruses by The Cribs (who happened to be recording in the same studio), in a clear attempt to break the awesomeness meter.

To say nothing of "My Most Precious Treasure", which ends episode 10 and the final episode. Immediate tears, OMFG.

We're lucky The Prisoner was never stretched past its breaking point. You can get away with a wild twist like "Many Happy Returns" when you only have 17 episodes, but if the show had run 100, they'd quickly have run out of plausible ideas and switched to some formula to operate less ambitiously within the Village's…

I find people who are inclined to like anime, or at least try it, usually enjoy Angel Beats!, which has a little bit of everything: action, comedy, romance, music, and tear-jerking.

Episode 3 is where Madoka shows what it's really up to. Episode 6 is where the floor drops out. Have fun, and always remember: "Bunnycat is a dick."

Wow, I hadn't thought to try that (I'd forgotten my Funimation password, since I have the $10 "almost everything" app for iPad), but I reset my password, authenticated on my Roku XS (2nd gen) and it works exactly as you say - I can browse the six available episodes of Noragami, and go deep into back-catalog titles…

Hadn't really looked, but Noragami got good reviews in the ANN Preview Guide too. Of course, it it's as pretty as they say, I'll want a way to get it on the big TV… hopefully Funimation's Roku app has a preview episode, or maybe I can AirPlay from the Funimation iPhone app to the Apple TV. It's also interesting that…

Started catching up on what seems to be the best-reviewed anime of the winter 2014 simulcast season: Wake Up, Girls!

Yes the Funimation dub is great throughout, particularly Isaac and Mirya, whose cloud-cuckoo-lander antics are the closest thing Baccano has to a unifying thread. It's also interesting how flat the Isaac and Mirya cameo in Durarara is when it's dubbed by different actors (who don't appear to get the joke)

Well, not quite everything. There's the couple in the train station in the first episode after the Pussyfoot arrives, who cut Isaac in the ear with a spear. I guess they were supposed to be in the second season? But at least we got wrench-weilding maniac Graham Specter in those back three episodes.

For me, the high point of Kids on the Slope was where they deal with that drunk, racist American at the military bar on Christmas. It's particularly shocking to be watching subtitled Japanese and then have someone yell "stop playing that coon music!" in perfect, horribly racist, English.

And realistically, a US-based reader who checks out the show based on a review here is more likely to DVR the adult swim English dub than seek out the Japanese stream.

I will always hold it against Durarara that it is the show we got instead of a second season of Baccano.

I kind of wonder how many people watched 2012's Kids On The Slope - a slow slice-of-life drama about two teens starting a jazz band in 1966 - and expected another Cowboy Bebop, because it reunited Watanabe with composer Yoko Kanno.

AoT is also on Funimation, Hulu, and even Netflix (whose anime selection is otherwise awful).