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The Radius

 Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple The Complete First Season

Director: Hajime Kamegaki

Studio: TMS Entertainment

Original Author: Syun Matsuena

U. S.  Distributor: FUNimation

U. S.  Release Date: May 29th, 2012

Format: DVD / 26 episodes / 640 minutes

Genre: Comedy, Martial Arts, Romance, Shonen

Age Rating: TV PG

Overall Personal Rating: B+

Similar Titles: Hayate the Combat Butler, Jackie Chan films, Ikki Tousen. Love Hina and Slayers

Everyone wants to be stronger or better at something. It’s a natural drive that keeps society moving forward. However, many things can get in the way of achieving one’s goal and even when a person conquers one obstacle another appears. For Kenichi, the titular character of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple it’s courage.

“The Radius”

Title:  Dream Eater Merry: The Complete Collection

Director: Shigeyasu Yamauchi

Studio:  Sentai Filmworks

Author:  Yoshitaka Ushiki

U.S. Distributor:  Sentai Filmworks

U.S. Release Date:  March 27, 2012

Format: DVD Series; 325 min

Genre:  action, comedy

Publisher Age Rating:  TVPG

Overall Personal Rating: C+

Be careful what you dream.  It might just try to kill you.

 Synopsis

The Radius

Title: House of Five Leaves Complete Series Premium Edition

Original Story: Natsume Ono

American Publisher: NIS AMERICA

American Release Date: March 6, 2012

Format:2 DVD box set, 12 half hour episodes (274 minutes)

Genre: Drama, Historical, Slice of Life

Rating: 13+ (T: Teen)

Overall Personal Rating: A

“The Radius”

Title: Princess Jellyfish: the Complete Series

Director:  Takahiro Omori

Studio: Funimation

Author: Akiko Higashimura

U.S. Distributor: Funimation Productions Ltd

U.S. Release Date:  Feb. 28th, 2012

Format: Series; DVD/Blu-Ray; 275 min

Genre: Romance; Comedy

Publisher/Industry Age Rating:  Funimation TV 14

Overall Personal Rating: B

Similar titles:  Ouran High School Host Club, Maria Holic, Student Council’s Discretion

Kurashita Tsukimi thought she was forever safe in her haven of Amamizu-kan, jokingly dubbed “the Nunnery” by its all-female tenants.  But her world is soon turned upside down when she meets the cross dressing Kuranosuke Koibuchi.

“The Radius”:

Title: Love Hina; The Complete Collection

Artist/Author: Ken Akamatsu

Distributor: FUNimation

American release date: Nov. 15, 2011

Genre, Format and length: Comedy Shojo Anime, 4 DVDs

Publisher/Industry Age Rating:

Overall Personal Rating: B

Similar series or titles to check out: Ah My Goddess, Negima, Chobits

True love is hard to achieve when a childhood dream gets in the way.

Bigger obstacles are even harder to overcome when they come from within. Can’t you just tell your crush how you feel? No! After all-it’s a comedy, and shojo at that.

The Radius

Dragon Ball Z Kai Part One

Original Story:  Akira Toriyama

American Publisher: Funimation Entertainment

American Release Date: October 18, 2011 (re-release)

Format: 2 DVD box set, 13 half hour episodes (325 minutes)

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Rating: TVPG

Overall Personal Rating: A-

Synopsis:

“The Radius”

 Xenosaga: The Animation S.A.V.E. Edition

Director: Shigeyasu Yamauchi (Japanese), Chris Ayres (USA)

American Publisher: Funimation Entertainment

American Release Date: September 13, 2011

Format: 2 DVD box set, 12 episodes (282 minutes)

Genre: Science Fiction, Adventure, Mecha

Rating: TV14

Overall Personal Rating: C

Hello everyone!Poll results are in.

Playgrounds haven’t gone out of style, but they do seem to

be getting fancier, with the “rock climbing wall” and all.

They are still great places to be. At my grade school, one

of the funnest places was a big hill that had huge erosion

gullies. They were so big, you had to leap over the cracks,

you couldn’t just step over them. It was so popular, all of

the grass was completely worn away. My vote goes to dirt,

but that’s not the winner.

Thank you everyone who voted for in our poll about pies,

and I have extra apprecitation, because I’m taking my own

photos for the polls  all the time now, and I so enjoyed having a

reason to bake a pie. I think I need to do a poll on cookies soon.

I’d love some home baked, warm out of the oven. Anyway, I

digress, this week’s new poll is playground “equipment”.

Let’s see how it goes!

The pie results are…….

I didn't win.

The results are in, and checking around, I see that

turkey is generally the number one favorite, but on

our poll it came in second, 11% behind the winner,

AND it has to share its spot with stuffing (they tied).

Beans lost, well if you don’t count “Something not on the list”.  Yes, I voted for beans. To my families chagrin, I made everyone bring something with beans. See, that was the theme for this year because we were watching Mr. Bean videos.

The movie has been out for a week now.  Our results are in.

None of our respondents stayed up and saw it at the midnight

screening. Our store is just down the hall at a mall, and people

had started lining up around 8:00pm, not a lot, but some, and

they came with blankets. We have done it twice, and it does add an element of excitement. We saw Deathly Hallows first thing in the morning (around 9am). I’d say 90% of the viewers were over 30, and 50% were over 50.

The results are in, I think this was a bit of a tough choice.

Although it might be fun to visit the characters, there’s

usually some major things to avoid in a movie world,

especially if we are just us from this reality, I mean, we

really wouldn’t know how to operate anything, let alone find

food and shelter. Maybe there would be a tour bus or

something to solve all of those problems.  Anyway, the reaults

are…..

This Week’s poll. Movie world I would like to visit.

Results are in. Not sure what I expected, except that Gilligan’s

Island would get at least one, but alas, it didn’t.  The next poll

is movie worlds you’d like to visit. Remember, just a visit,

you don’t have to stay long. I wish we had a write in feature,

it is tough to pick just 8 out of all of them. I went for well known

and not so old that they seem like TV specials, not movies.

So the winner is….

Is Easter the most popular?

Result are in. Which one was tops?  Well,

although Easter isn’t in the top, this is a

picture of our bunny.

Christmas and Halloween were close in a race

for the top. Now,

I do think that the results

might have been skewed

because we were so close to

Halloween, especially since

our last poll results said 36%

would be ignoring Halloween.

So, with that said, the actual

numbers for last week’s poll are:

The results are in. What is everyone doing this

Halloween?  I admit that I was a bit surprised

with the results, but  I think this means that our

readers don’t have little kids, since going out

trick or treating was the clear loser. Looking

at the candy aisle at the store, there still plenty

around, I’m just not sure it will be going to the

little kids!

So, here are the actual results……

Please participate in our Halloween Poll.

On Halloween I will be…

Trick or Treating – 3%

When the moon hits your eye
Like a big-a pizza pie,
That’s amore!

According to other websites, 36% of pizzas have pepperoni, 62% of pizzas have meat (in America), thick crust is the most popular, AND, people eat on average 46 slices of pizza a year. Well, I think at my house, the 46 is too low, but meat or not is 50/50 . (Some of us are vegetarian)

How do our poll respondents measure up?

Here are the results for our pizza poll:

October is national pizza month. What kind do you like?

Pepperoni – 8%

The poll for Monopoly game pieces started on September 29th is over.

It seems this is a real American classic, I don’t think there is anyone

here that hasn’t heard of the game, and very few who haven’t played it.

The new poll starting October 6, 2010 is in honor of National Pizza

month.  Here’s one thing I learned, slightly over one third of Americans want pepperoni on their pizza.

Okay, back to Monopoly,

Here are the poll results:

The new poll is posted, Favorite Monopoly piece. We’ve picked the classics to choose from.  You might remember some different ones, like the money bag or the wheelbarrow, but since  I only have 8 spaces,  I picked the ones that appeared for the longest. You might notice the money bag or wheelbarrow missing.Our set as kids didn’t have the money bag, but we did have the wheelbarrow.

Time for this week’s poll results.  Most everyone encounters stoplight, but have you stopped to think much about them? Like at Christmas time, they use traditional Christmas colors? Or your favorite color? And is that your favorite stoplight color because of what it does or means, or because of the color itself? And how did those colors get picked in the first place?

It’s Wednesday, time for poll results.  This week we focused

on Voice Actor Vic Mignogna. He will be appearing at Archon34,

the St. Louis, Mo. area convention the first weekend in October.

Check out his website   http://www.vicsworld.net/ for a list of all

the Anime he has been associated with. Quite an impressive list.

Speaking of Archon, hope to see you all there! It’s the biggest Sci Fi

convention in the area, and this year there will be even more

Anime influence.  There are many panels and film slots devoted to

the genre.