Robot Reviews: Oh those wacky Aisan countries and their crazy comical books

September 18, 2009  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
X-men: Misfits X-Men Misfits Vol. 1 Story by Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman. Art by Anzu Del Rey, 192 pages, $12.99. Grafting the X-Men onto a shojo manga template isn't a half-bad idea, considering the soap opera antics of the series back in its hey day (and indeed, even today). The problem lies in that Telgemeier and Roman have grafted too much of the template onto this comic, so that none of the characters have any room to move beyond their narrowly defined roles. It's way to sl

[Ascaloth] CLANNAD ~After Story~, Episode 9

November 29, 2008  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
As the Girl and the Robot make the necessary preparations to make their great journey into the world beyond their own, leaving behind the world they’ve spent all their time together for that great beyond, the main cast are also preparing for their next great journey into life, their entrance into working society at the end of their high school lives. While most of them are moving on, there will be a few who has some distance yet to go, but it is a checkpoint common to all our lives, one which