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What's the one thing that a
Cardcaptor wants when she's
boss levelled the Cardcaptoring
world? Love, of course. And that's what
our namesake is out to get in Cardcaptor
Sakura Movie -The Sealed Card . Sakura
has collected all of the cards and is for the
most part content, although her heart still
yearns for her one true love. Get ready to
have your heartstrings pulled.
One of the best anime series in years,
Psycho Pass: Complete Season 2 hits
shelves, bringing with it more glorious
animation, sci-fi action and thought-
provoking stories. Is it really okay to rely on
technology to determine a person's fate?
How foolproof is technologically-based
precognition? If Phillip K.
Dick had made anime,
Psycho Pass would
be it.
Dai-Shogun
Great Revolution:
Complete Series is
an odd little "What
If?" story that
asks what would
happen if Japan never
experienced the Meiji
Restoration and instead
hurtled straight into the
Edo period with closed
borders. If Dai-Shogun
were to be believed,
there would be giant robots keeping
invaders at bay and illustrious leaders who
can't speak to women, lest they explode in
hives. Oh, anime. You so silly.
The all-round smash hit Date A Live
returns with the Complete Season 2, and it
promises to turn up the heat. If you thought
last season was, ahem, thrilling, wait till
you meet the new cast members – a set of
twins named Yuzuru and Kaguya Yamai. Just
between you and me, they're definitely not
dressed for winter.
Okay, so just imagine your absolute
favourite idol decides to call it a day and
retires from active duty. Gutted, right?
Now imagine that they enrol in your school,
out of the blue, and they end up in your
class... Well that's exactly what happens
in No-Rin:The Complete Series, and its
every bit as sweet and heart-melting as
you would expect.
In Blade Dance of the Elementalers,
only pure maidens can forge a contract with
spirits. Maidens would imply that they're all
female, right? Well in classic anime fashion,
there's one guy that fits the bill: Kamito
Kazehaya. He has to form a team with a
group of priestesses before engaging in
'Blade Dance'. Call me crazy, but I'm fairly
certain that saucy hijinx ensue.
Also available this month are FairyTail
Collection 19, Hanayamata:The Complete
Series and MottoTo-Love-Ru:The
Complete Season 2.
ANIME ROUND-UP
5Trigun - Vash the Stampede's AGL Arms
.45 Long Colt. The awesome look of this
gun has plenty to do with the barrel being
aligned with the bottom chamber of the revolver.
Even cooler is that it's based on a real pistol
from the 1800s!
4Cowboy Bebop - Spike's Jericho 941.
Another real world firearm, the Jericho
941 is a 9mm, Israeli-designed pistol commonly
referred to as the "Baby Eagle". What makes
this gun cool isn't so much the design, but its
placement in the opening credits of the show.
3Hellsing - Alucard's Jackal. A custom
firearm made by Alucard himself for one
reason and one reason only – the destruction
of Anderson. Sources say that the firearm is
39cm long and weighs 16kg of pure silver, while
chewing up and spitting out 13mm rounds.
2Trigun - Nicholas D. Wolfwood's Punisher.
Shaped like a cross and about the size of
an average human, it houses two machine guns,
a rocket launcher, and a handful of pistols. It
weighs a figurative tonne, but that's because
Wolfwood says "it's so full of mercy".
1Astro Boy - Astro's
Bum Gun. C'mon!
How could I possibly go
past Astro and his high-
powered pooper? And
seriously, how as a kid did
I not find this as amusing
as I do now?
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EXTRAS
Psycho Pass: Complete Season 2
To celebrate the release of Psycho
Pass: Season 2, I thought I'd honour the
series' outrageously awesome firearm
'Dominator' by compiling a list of the best
guns in all of animedom.
ANIME GUNS
Astro Boy