Alex Kerr is no stranger to Japan, his books and his­tory demon­strate a con­tinu­ing per­sonal involve­ment and deep affec­tion for the coun­try which is hard to find in many for­eign­ers. Per­haps best know for the sem­inal Lost Japan, Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Mod­ern Japan was pub­lished eight years later in 2002 and aims […]

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How many eyes? 11eyes. Cer­tainly more than 3×3 Eyes and The Girl with the Blue Eye, numer­ic­ally at least. A fas­cin­a­tion with eyes and in par­tic­u­lar eye­patches (see also Rental Magica, Ten­jou Tenge et. al.), this series has the stand­ard out­fit­ting of an enig­matic past and hid­den powers con­nec­ted with said eye […]

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Seiken no Black­smith is about as close to sword porn as anime is likely to get  —  gra­tu­it­ous close-ups of everything from katanas to two-handed broadswords, even a sword that turns into a scantily clothed female  —  there is no doubt that someone on the pro­duc­tion team has a bor­der­line fet­ish for the weapons. It is […]

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Rental Magica is another series which attempts to be the right-side of the “magic + school chil­dren =” equa­tion. Whether the glut of recent shows with this theme is some kind of fal­lout from the Harry Pot­ter fan­gasm or per­haps just some kind of coin­cid­ence is a ques­tion for the future; what […]

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Claymore’s hook is the pres­ence of blonde, nubile young ladies with the tit­u­lar, impossibly large swords set in a fant­ast­ical, medi­eval world. Being able to move past this premise is the first of many things that this series man­ages to do well, unfor­tu­nately it is marred by a pleth­ora of other niggling […]

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