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Io9 — A Mind Control Double Whammy or Double Miss
“MM!”
Practically everyone in this show has some kind of mental hangup, and that’s the focus of the series.
For the three main characters, they all have full-grown psychological disorders that conflict and cooperate at the same time. The male lead Tarou is a masochist, but only when women do the damage; Mio is a sadist and, in classic anime style, is self-conscious about her flat breasts; and Arashiko of the abundant breasts cannot stand being touched or even being around men and will even attack them if they get too close. Therefore, Tarou is in ecstasy when Mio or Arashiko hit him, and they do, a lot, as Mio gets inordinate pleasure from doing so whereas Arashiko does so when flustered or by accident and is immediately sorry.
Its also the running joke, that Mio is always trying to find ways to ‘cure’ Tarou’s masochism (including an candle-lit exorcism) that always wind up reinforcing his masochism instead of curing it. Of course, one of those ways involves hypnosis.
The rest of the cast all have their hangups as well: Tarou’s mother and teen-aged sister are extremely overly affectionate toward him (both want to marry him) and even compete with each other (and his girlfriends) for his affections; Tarou’s friend Tatsukichi is a cross-dresser (and quite good at it) and seems to have an alternate personality emerge when dressing as a woman; Noa, a senior, although her appearance is still that of a younger girl, is a genius who never had a childhood as she had to study all the time, and who always refers to herself in third-person; Noa’s assistant YukinojÅ is a major lolicon (fan of prepubescent girls) and joined the Inventor’s Club to be closer to Noa; and school nurse Michiru knows all about everyone’s hangups, possesses an apparently unlimited supply of cosplay costumes and loves to take pictures of the students in them.
Needless to say, the entire series is NSFW.
‘Nix on Hypnotricks’ — Popeye the Sailor
This Week in Comics — Free Comics Saturday
“Death Note”
What can you do when you have the power of life and death, especially traceless, unstoppable death, over anyone you can name? In “Death Note”, Light Yagami discovers that despite his best (and worst) intentions, no real good can come of it.
“Batman — The Brave and the Bold”
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History: It all started with ’ ”Batman: The Animated Series” and continued with ’ ”Superman’ “and finally “The Justice League”. These series were extremely popular with both adults and children, largely for their clever writing and the exceptional voice talents (Michael Ironside as Darkseid, Michael Dorn as Kalibak, and, last but not least, Adam West as a washed-up, stereotyped actor, for example) under the direction of voice director Andrea Romano. When they finally ended, the iconic character of the Batman was returned to screen in a new series, “Batman: the Brave and the Bold”.
So how does it stand up?
“Warriors of Illusion”
History: The name ‘Jack Kirby’ is be one that every comics fan should immediately recognize: the artist behind the creation of some of the most recognizable comics characters ever, such as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, the Uncanny X‑Men., as well as drawing just about every major comics character in existence for just about every comics company around. He was called Jack “The King” Kirby and “The King of Comics“1 and deserved ever accolade given him.
But there was a time when he wasn’t working in the comics industry. Disaffected with both Marvel and DC, he went to Hollywood and worked for the Ruby-Spears animation company, where he helped create the visuals for such animated series as “Thundarr the Barbarian” 2 and “Mister T” 3. But that wasn’t all he did: he created a large set of preliminary artwork for a number of other characters and groups which have not seen the light of day until recently.

