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to be interested, so you'd better step up with something juicy – and juicy is what we get when the group investigate the serial murders of fellow supers, also known as Minimum Holders. Sunday Without God tells the story of a God who packs up its bat and ball and goes home. It closes heaven and leaves the dead unable to rest, while

Laughter is never a bad thing, unless you're at a funeral. Trust me. Also, sorry Uncle Bob. So start the year with these side-splitting series. Gintama is without a doubt one of the funniest and most inappropriate series to ever assault my eyeballs. Truly, I'm talking God-level funny. Unfortunately only the movie is available locally, but surely with enough interest in the movie, the series could get picked up too. Vote with your wallets, people! Another absurd comedy, Azumanga Daioh , may seem like a less crazy version of Nichijou , but trust me it's equally as nutty and hilarious to boot. Okay, so this may have just been a way for me

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the living find themselves unable to reproduce. As time passes by, humanity finds itself creeping closer and closer to extinction. But what exactly does extinction mean when the dead have nowhere to go? It seems timely that we receive the Complete Collection of Robotics; Notes at a time when Japan has promised us a full-sized, fully functioning Mobile Suit. But of course there's more to this series than giant fighting robots, it's also filled with mystery, intrigue and friendship through adversity. It's rather rare for long-running

Blue Exorcist

O ne of my favourite anime series of recent years, Blue Exorcist gets a collected release on both DVD and beautiful Bu-ray. Rin Okumura and his brother Yukio, the goodie-two-shoes of the pair, follow in the footsteps of their adoptive father. The catch is that they find themselves battling Rin's biological father, Satan. You may have heard of him. Big, horned, a bit of a grump.

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to mention Nichijou again. If you haven't seen this totally random nugget of awesomeness yet, get it. Then I'll finally

leave you alone. If you're looking for something which is as pervy as it is funny, Heaven's Lost Property is where it's at. The main character, Tomoki Sakurai, makes no bones about perversion and wears his devo badge with honour. It's truly cringeworthy and laugh-out- loud funny.

We all have some memories that we wish we could forget, but in Golden Time , Banri just wishes that he could remember. A freshman at a Tokyo law school, he happens upon Mitsuo and it seems as though they were fated to be together. Or are they? Not only is Golden Time a wonderful love story, but it also raises some pertinent questions about love, destiny and happenstance.

shonen series to still kick butt once the episode count gets into the hundreds, but Fairy Tail Collection 17 breaks the mould. The Grand Magic Games arc comes to a fiery and exciting end with new enemies and allies from unlikely sources. In an episode of many faces, Code Geass: Akito the Exiled - Episode 3 has W-O taking on

With nary a hamster in sight, Hamatora is in fact a clandestine private detective agency manned by super-powered private dicks, and handsome ones at that. The only catch is that they don't take any old case. They actually have

the carefree lifestyle of wandering gypsies, Leila taking a one-woman fight to a terrorist organisation, and Shin making a move to take control of the entirety of Euro Britannia. And all of this in a meagre 51 minutes!

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