Norman Rafferty Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Anime Review: Black Butler

Many years ago, Western audiences were introduced to Sailor Moon, an anime about super-powered magical girls who fought monsters from another universe. Even ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorJanuary 28, 2011

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Anime Review: Casshern Sins

In the future, Doctor Azuma invented a new kind of robot to serve humans … but a lab accident turns his greatest creation ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorNovember 5, 2010

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Anime Review: Dragon Ball Z Kai

God, I love Dragon Ball Z. The first series, Dragon Ball, followed our hero Goku as he fought bad guys and gathered up ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorJune 23, 2010

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Anime Review: Sands of Destruction

The Japanese Role-Playing Game, or JRPG, has brought forth its tropes of spunky teenagers out to save the world, of exotic vehicles in ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorJanuary 28, 2010

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Anime Review: Linebarrels of Iron

Kouichi is a push-around for the class bullies, but he’s convinced he is righteous. One day, a robot from space crashes on top ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorJanuary 14, 2010

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Anime Review: Kurau Phantom Memory

It’s the year 2100, and Doctor Amami has discovered a new energy source, the extra-dimensional Rynax. But on Take-Your-Daughter-To-The-Top-Secret-Lab-Day, there’s an accident that ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorDecember 30, 2009

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Anime Review: Blassreiter, Vol. 1

Hermann wanted to race motorcycles. Gerd, his mentor, cut him from the racing team – he knew Hermann wasn’t cutthroat enough to take ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorDecember 3, 2009

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Anime Review: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s

It’s another of those anime where people in funny costumes stand on nothing, floating above some Japanese city while they make threats against ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorOctober 29, 2009

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Anime Review: Red Garden

In Red Garden‘s New York City, four high-school girls worry about what happened to a fifth girl that they barely know. They make ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorOctober 15, 2009

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Anime Review: Sgt. Frog, Season 1, Part 1

In the anime Sgt. Frog, a bunch of short, big-headed, multicolored aliens land on earth . They each have a personality trait so ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorSeptember 18, 2009

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Anime Review: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

We previously reviewed Welcome to the NHK, an anime about college dropouts who never leave the house. There’s a running joke about Puru ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorAugust 28, 2009

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Anime Review: xxxHolic

CLAMP is the name of a collective of comic artists and writers. A standout in their field, CLAMP are like a rock-star supergroup ...

By Norman Rafferty Legacy AuthorAugust 19, 2009

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