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Watch online Level E Episode 13 Subbed

TV Tokyo has opened a website for the television anime adaptation of the Level E manga with a two-minute streaming promotional video. Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter X Hunter, Yu Yu Hakusho) created this story about "Prince" (Daisuke Namikawa), an alien who shares an apartment with a high school freshman named Yukitaka Tsutsui (Yoshimasa Hosoya). The cast includes Takehito Koyasu (Craft), Satomi Akesaka (Miho Edogawa), Masaya Takatsuka (Sado), Takumi Asahina (Corinne), and Fumihiko Tachiki (Narrator). Studio Pierrot and David Production are co-producing the project for a January 2011 premiere in Japan. http://ani.tv/level-e/

Opening Theme:
#1: "Cold Finger Girl" (コールドフィンガーガール) by Chiaki Kuriyama
Ending Theme:
#1: "Yume~Mugen no Kanata~" (「夢」～ムゲンノカナタ～) by ViViD

Real
manga 9

If the life-affirming truths of REAL cut deep to the core, it's likely because they are expressed in simple, powerful words. And this is the magic of Inoue's scripting: that he does not try to make a deep series sound deeper than it needs to be, that he doesn't force the characters into putting on melodramatic airs. They just go about their business saying things that people in their situation might say, whether it's Takahashi trying to make sense of his life or Nomiya trying to convince his peers. The best lines are often the simplest ones—a fact that is brought out in this straightfoward but eloquent translation. Japanese signs and symbols in the artwork are handled subtly with translations in between panels, but sound effects are more conspicuously edited as English text replaces the original characters outright.

Watch online Level E Episode 12 Subbed

TV Tokyo has opened a website for the television anime adaptation of the Level E manga with a two-minute streaming promotional video. Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter X Hunter, Yu Yu Hakusho) created this story about "Prince" (Daisuke Namikawa), an alien who shares an apartment with a high school freshman named Yukitaka Tsutsui (Yoshimasa Hosoya). The cast includes Takehito Koyasu (Craft), Satomi Akesaka (Miho Edogawa), Masaya Takatsuka (Sado), Takumi Asahina (Corinne), and Fumihiko Tachiki (Narrator). Studio Pierrot and David Production are co-producing the project for a January 2011 premiere in Japan. http://ani.tv/level-e/

Opening Theme:
#1: "Cold Finger Girl" (コールドフィンガーガール) by Chiaki Kuriyama
Ending Theme:
#1: "Yume~Mugen no Kanata~" (「夢」～ムゲンノカナタ～) by ViViD

Real
manga 9
With the series' main characters currently in a state of transition, working toward their goals but not making any dramatic accomplishments, there isn't much to mark this as a particularly notable volume of REAL. At the same time, though, there's really no such thing as a bad volume of REAL, or a bad volume of anything by Takehiko Inoue for that matter. Sometimes a great series just has to lie low for a while and resolutely move forward, waiting for a future payoff. With deep, fascinating characters like these, and top-notch artistry bringing them to life, there's nothing wrong with watching them do the little things so that they may someday accomplish the Big Thing. Whether it's surviving one session of lower-body rehab, or one session of pickup basketball, we all have our battles to win, big or small. And so once again this work of fiction opens our eyes to some undeniable truths.

Watch online Level E Episode 11 Subbed

TV Tokyo has opened a website for the television anime adaptation of the Level E manga with a two-minute streaming promotional video. Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter X Hunter, Yu Yu Hakusho) created this story about "Prince" (Daisuke Namikawa), an alien who shares an apartment with a high school freshman named Yukitaka Tsutsui (Yoshimasa Hosoya). The cast includes Takehito Koyasu (Craft), Satomi Akesaka (Miho Edogawa), Masaya Takatsuka (Sado), Takumi Asahina (Corinne), and Fumihiko Tachiki (Narrator). Studio Pierrot and David Production are co-producing the project for a January 2011 premiere in Japan. http://ani.tv/level-e/

Opening Theme:
#1: "Cold Finger Girl" (コールドフィンガーガール) by Chiaki Kuriyama
Ending Theme:
#1: "Yume~Mugen no Kanata~" (「夢」～ムゲンノカナタ～) by ViViD

Real Bout High School
DVD 1: Enter the Samurai Girl
Real Bout High School is a must see for fans of fighting games such as Street Fighter and Tekken. Unlike your garden-variety fighting game based Anime however, Real Bout is a blast to watch.

Right from the get-go Real Bout's fighting game heritage is abundantly obvious, the DVD's main menu features a layout that is completely reminiscent of the standard fighting game screen. While two of the main characters duke it out in the background, a timer counts down the seconds and their health bars move according to the "damage" they take in the fight.

As a menu, it works; it is both functional and fun to watch.

Watch online Level E Episode 10 Subbed

TV Tokyo has opened a website for the television anime adaptation of the Level E manga with a two-minute streaming promotional video. Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter X Hunter, Yu Yu Hakusho) created this story about "Prince" (Daisuke Namikawa), an alien who shares an apartment with a high school freshman named Yukitaka Tsutsui (Yoshimasa Hosoya). The cast includes Takehito Koyasu (Craft), Satomi Akesaka (Miho Edogawa), Masaya Takatsuka (Sado), Takumi Asahina (Corinne), and Fumihiko Tachiki (Narrator). Studio Pierrot and David Production are co-producing the project for a January 2011 premiere in Japan. http://ani.tv/level-e/

Opening Theme:
#1: "Cold Finger Girl" (コールドフィンガーガール) by Chiaki Kuriyama
Ending Theme:
#1: "Yume~Mugen no Kanata~" (「夢」～ムゲンノカナタ～) by ViViD

Real Bout High School
DVD 1: Enter the Samurai Girl

Fighting games aren't the only thing that Real Bout takes influence from and pays homage to. The main character, Ryoko, is a Samurai movie Otaku! Samurai movie references, from dialogue to sound effects, make many appearances in the series. These aren't quite as blatant as the fighting game references but they are distinctive and fans of Samurai movies will notice and enjoy them.

Watch online Level E Episode 9 Subbed

TV Tokyo has opened a website for the television anime adaptation of the Level E manga with a two-minute streaming promotional video. Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter X Hunter, Yu Yu Hakusho) created this story about "Prince" (Daisuke Namikawa), an alien who shares an apartment with a high school freshman named Yukitaka Tsutsui (Yoshimasa Hosoya). The cast includes Takehito Koyasu (Craft), Satomi Akesaka (Miho Edogawa), Masaya Takatsuka (Sado), Takumi Asahina (Corinne), and Fumihiko Tachiki (Narrator). Studio Pierrot and David Production are co-producing the project for a January 2011 premiere in Japan. http://ani.tv/level-e/

Opening Theme:
#1: "Cold Finger Girl" (コールドフィンガーガール) by Chiaki Kuriyama
Ending Theme:
#1: "Yume~Mugen no Kanata~" (「夢」～ムゲンノカナタ～) by ViViD

Real Bout High School
DVD 1: Enter the Samurai Girl
The series is rife with fighting game and samurai movie stereotypes, but they all work extremely well, creating a part of this series' comedic relief. There's even a semi-cameo by Chun-Li and Cammy (actually two minor characters cos-playing as the Street Fighter characters) and a scene that is very reminiscent of a scene in the second episode of Ranma ½.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion
DVD Vol. 1
Neon Genesis Evangelion is a story of a frail looking 15-year-old boy and his unusual day-job: piloting a huge robot to save mankind against angelic invaders. It occurs on a drastically different earth, flooded by the melting of Antarctica. The year is 2015 and the place is Tokyo- 3, Japan. Bizarre-looking organisms, called angels have begun appearing and attacking mankind, and it seems that frail, 15 year-old Shinji Ikari and the biomechanical robot known as Evangelion, are mankind's only hopes. Under the auspices of NERV, a top secret UN organization, Shinji, and another pilot, Rei Ayanami, pilot their Evas in hand to hand combat with the angels. That's what the story is on the surface at least, but it quickly evolves into a psychological and philosophical melting pot with deeper meaning and symbolism, rife with religious images, metaphors, and techno-jargon.

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Synopsis
Tsutsui Yukitaka was a freshman who had just entered a high school, and he was hoped to be a good baseball player. When he moved to a new apartment, there was a man in the room. He said he was an alien and lost his memory.

Actually, he was the first prince of Planet Dogra, and he was the man who had the best brain and the worst nature.

Aired: Jan 2011 to ?
Producers: David Production, Studio Pierrot
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen

Aria the Origination
DVD - Collection
Fear not, though; Aria approaches its forward-gazing narrative with the same quiet grace and eye for cinematic poetry that it brought to its uplifting mission in previous seasons. From the Arietta OVA that begins this set the series features a renewed focus on professional maturation that is pure Junichi Sato: so quiet, natural and seamlessly integrated into the series' visual and narrative rhythm that when it precipitates the first of a series of major life changes it's some time before you realize that he had been building to them all along. The feelings the series leaves you with are similarly constructed: gentle emotions built of little things—comments and tiny psychological revelations—whose full import only becomes clear when they swell together at the series' poignant conclusion.

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Aria the Origination
DVD - Collection
Right Stuf's presentation of the series is every bit a match for its content. Their thinpak box is solidly built and thoroughly bedecked with the series' delectable art. The accompanying booklet is colorful, dense with interviews and cast retrospectives, and just generally a joy to read and look at (even if it has some embarrassing misprints). The decision to place the single Arietta OVA on its own disc seems wasteful until it becomes clear just how packed the other discs are. Every one of the three Origination discs features four to five episodes (episodes 1-13, plus bonus episode 5.5) along with two or three picture dramas—barely animated video mangas with enough bad dialogue to hint at how disastrous the series could have been were it not so carefully written and executed. And to round out the set, there's an entire extra disc of cast and crew interviews, including "SatoJun's 'Venice I'm Sorry!' Returns", a sequel of sorts to Aria the Natural's thoroughly charming travelogue featuring the thoroughly charming Junichi Sato.

There's no dub, but really, who expected one?

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Aria the Origination
DVD - Collection
With background on Alicia and Akira's formative years and a focus on growing up that sees the central trio of Akari, Aika and Alice roughing out their future paths, this is a far more traditionally substantial season than the franchise's previous two. Occasionally rushed and less sparklingly magical than previously, the series doesn't suffer the change without consequence, but it remains a graceful and gorgeous experience. And if its new maturity inspires a certain sadness, well that's exactly as it should be. In the words of Akari: wonderful.

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Level E ED Single – Yume ~Mugen no Kanata~ [ViViD]
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Level E 03 http://www.mediafire.com/?fi4b18iloxzqd9x
Level E 04 http://www.mediafire.com/?rf232q62noi6p79

Aria the Origination
DVD - Collection
And of course it is all—every glimpse of the future, window into the past, and glance at the increasingly evanescent present—transcendentally beautiful, crowned with images and sequences so gorgeously constructed that they defy easy encapsulation. There's a retirement ceremony that echoes the royal processions of bygone eras, a simple ferry crossing during which music and motion combine to communicate the economic beauty of Akari's sculling, and of course a nearly endless number of discrete moments when Sato's meticulous sound design, the carefully researched settings, and Choro Club and Takeshi Senoo's wonderful acoustic score make a living thing of Neo-Venezia.

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Synopsis
Tsutsui Yukitaka was a freshman who had just entered a high school, and he was hoped to be a good baseball player. When he moved to a new apartment, there was a man in the room. He said he was an alien and lost his memory.

Actually, he was the first prince of Planet Dogra, and he was the man who had the best brain and the worst nature.

Aired: Jan 2011 to ?
Producers: David Production, Studio Pierrot
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen

Aria the Origination
DVD - Collection
The commencement of forward motion comes at a cost, however. This is by far the least magical of Aria's installments, and not just because Cait Sith has gone MIA. The Origination lacks The Animation's freshness as well as The Natural's sprawl, the space in which to steep us in the laid-back atmosphere of Neo-Venezia. Its future focus foreshortens Akari's wide-eyed explorations of the here and now, and its final episodes, and the changes they effect, are more bittersweet coming of age drama than celebrations of everyday wonder. The conflicting emotions this season ultimately evokes are, as ever, subtle and sneaky in their power, but they also leave an entirely different impression than seasons past. Aria's customary warm glow is still there, but it's an older, wiser and sadder warmth.

Watch online Level E Episode 7 Subbed

Synopsis
Tsutsui Yukitaka was a freshman who had just entered a high school, and he was hoped to be a good baseball player. When he moved to a new apartment, there was a man in the room. He said he was an alien and lost his memory.

Actually, he was the first prince of Planet Dogra, and he was the man who had the best brain and the worst nature.

Aired: Jan 2011 to ?
Producers: David Production, Studio Pierrot
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen

Aria the Origination
DVD - Collection
Aria the Animation was our introduction to Akari and Neo-Venezia. Aria the Natural was the quintessence of their gentle magic. Aria the Origination is their final bow, fourteen episodes of elegiac beauty that soothe even as they mourn the franchise's passing.

If forward motion is the yardstick by which you measure quality, then The Origination is the best of all Aria incarnations. In its final season the series trims away the overt magical trappings of The Natural, narrows its focus back down to its central trio of apprentice undines, and moves their lives forward with almost shocking suddenness. After reveling in its sense of place and celebrating at length the languorous magic of everyday life, the series finally shifts its gaze to its characters' futures. If ever you were curious about the fate of Akari, Alice, Aika or any of the other "A"s who populate the series, The Origination's final episodes will leave you quite sated.

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