Top Ranked Anime Series
Nov 6, 2011
Top 100 cartoon / anime series of all time #5-1
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Hoop Days [Anime Series] $25.48 Similar to the popular series SLAM DUNK, HOOP DAYS (aka DEAR BOYS) is a basketball anime that stresses the importance of team work and training. The new student at Mizuho High School, Kazuhiko Aikawa, is shocked to discover that Mizuho’s basketball team has disbanded. Amazed by Kazuhiko’s ability to slam dunk despite his short height, other students at Mizuho begin to take an interest in the game again, and reform the team. ZONE THREE, the third volume of this sports-themed anime, contains five episodes. This time out, the team is training against Honmoku East, but their rivals don’t seem to take the sport seriously. More tensions erupt as Ishii and Miura’s fighting threatens to cost Mizuho a place in the playoffs. HOOP DAYS features a soundtrack with some of Japan’s top hip-hop artists. |
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The Rough Guide to Anime $11.98 "The Rough Guide to Anime" provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse and amazing world of animation from Japan. Combining a critical approach with all the essential background information a from history and short biographies of the key people in the industry to the different genres, themes and cultural references of anime a this is the ultimate guide to Japanese animation. The book introduces the creative talents behind the major anime movies, TV series and OVA (original video animation) a from the Oscar-winning "Spirited Away" to classic works like "Howl”s Moving Castle," "Princess Mononoke," and the iconic shows "Astro Boy," "Kimba" "the White Lion," "Speed Racer" and "Robotech." Written by anime expert Simon Richmond, features include the Top 50 must-sees, with details on the most influential directors and creative artists. There”s an exploration of the art form”s history, plus information on the anime conventions and manga-related attractions in Japan. Newcomers will love the glossary of all the anime slang and jargon, while devoted fans will relish the fresh exploration of themes, genres and obsessions in the colourful anime universe. "The Rough Guide to Anime" explores the best of the prolific genre of anime in today”s popular culture. |
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Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper $3.48 Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps’ top-ranked sniper, the man who personally brings America’s military muscle to the enemy’s front door. In twenty years of active service, he has accumulated one of the most impressive records in the Corps, ranging through many of the world’s hot spots. During Operation Iraqi Freedom alone, he recorded at least thirty-six kills, thirteen of them in a single twenty-four-hour period. In "Shooter, "Coughlin has written a highly personal story about his deadly craft, taking readers deep inside an invisible society that is off-limits to outsiders. This is not a heroic battlefield memoir, but the careful study of an exceptional man as he carries forward one of the deadliest legacies in the U.S. military. |
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801 T.T.S. Airbats [Anime OVA Series] $17.95 When Flight Maintenance Specialist Takuya Isurugi walks into the training base for the 801 Tactical Training Squadron, he encounters just about the zaniest crew in the Japanese Air Defense Force. Comprised entirely of comely female pilots, this squadron of young women are among the nation’s top pilots, but constantly fight with one another. Now that the handsome Takuya has wandered into their midst, these frisky fighter pilots have one more thing to argue over. Contains the entire series on two DVDs. |
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