Meandering Mondays: Magic? Theory: Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer/Hoshi no Samidare

Hello everyone, this week I'm going to talk about the magic like abilities from Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer a manga which I highly endorse(see my review here for further information).  The abilities the characters use are not magical in nature but the ways that they are used are close enoguh for the purpose of this article.  As always SPOILERS AHEAD

Manga Review: Bakuman

Hi everyone, this week's manga review is Bakuman which chronicles the lives of a pair of teenage boys trying to become professional mangaka.

Meandering Monday's: Magic Thoery: Naruto Part 2 Tailed Beasts and Jinchuriki

Hi again everyone, in honor of the finale of Naruto this week we're going to cover some of the secondary aspects of chakra particularly the tailed beasts and the jinchuriki.  As always wanring for SPOILERS AHEAD.

Meandering Mondays: Magic Theory: One Piece Part 2 Haki

Hello again everyone, this week I'm going to continue where I left off last week talking about the magical abilities present in the world of One Piece.  This time I'll be describing Haki the magic like ability wielded by characters in the later part of the series.  Warning potential SPOILERS AHEAD.

Anime Review: Bleach

Hi everyone, once again it is my turn to review an anime and since toonami is airing the final episode of the English dub this weekend I figured the time was right to review Bleach.  The series is long (over 300 episodes) and as a result this review will cover the earlier part of the series.  The major premise of Bleach is the adventures of high school student Ichigo Kurosaki after he becomes a Shinigami and begins defending his friends from evil ghosts. 

Meandering Mondays: Magic Theory: One Piece Part 1 Devil Fruit

Hi again everyone this week I'm continuing with my series about how magic works in various anime with One Piece.  While many of the more unatural parts of of the world of One Piece are considered to be completely natural to the world there are a few major elements that are either explicitly supernatural(devil fruit powers) or that work like magic(Haki) and those are going to be the topics for today.  As always warnings for potential SPOILERS AHEAD.

Meandering Mondays: Magic Theory: Naruto

Hello again everyone, we're continuing our series on the magic systems in various manga with Naruto (Fairy Tail, Mx0.  While not exactly magic the jutsu of Naruto are very similar especially later on in the series.  As always, SPOILERS AHEAD.

Manga Review: MxO

Hi everyone, it's my turn this week for the manga review and this week our topic is Mx0 (which I've been misspelling as MxO for a while now).  Basically this series follows a high school student who accidentally ends up enrolled at a secret magical high school and has to disguise his lack of magical ability. 

Meandering Mondays: Magic Theory: MxO

Hi again everyone, this week I'm going to continue my series on magic in various manga and anime which started last week with Fairy Tail.  This week's topic is a manga called MxO about students at a magic high school. As always SPOILERS AHEAD

Fanmade Saturdays: Anime Boston AMVs Top Picks 2

Hi everyone it's my turn to for the fan content column which means more AMVs from Anime Boston. beware AMVs contain SPOILERS

Meandering Mondays: Magic Theory: Fairy Tail

So after realizing that I was late for today's post I decided to start another series of articles on magic in anime and manga.  Our first subject will be Fairy Tail one of the more popular shounen series currently coming out.  As a warning POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD

Anime Review: Gosick

Hi everyone, sorry about posting so late I've been sick for a few days now and had a few exams this week.  Now to get down to business this week's topic is Gosick, which follows a high school student in a small European nation during the 1920s as he interacts with a mysterious girl genius. 

Meandering Mondays: Lost in Translation: One Piece

Hello again everyone, this week I'm going to do another article in my series about localization of anime with one of the most notorious dubs of all One Piece.  For those of you who have never heard of it One Piece follows a crew of pirates searching for One Piece a legendary treasure hidden by the King of the Pirates. 

Warning spoilers Ahead

Meandering Mondays: Geek Life: Part 3 Quidditch

Greetings, for the last few weeks I've been covering each of the organizations and have covered HVZ and Gaming Club.  This week's group is the URI Qudditch team the Rhody Ridgebacks. 

Manga Review: Jitsu wa Watashi wa

Hi everyone, once again it's my turn to review a manga(my favorite of the weekly assignments).  This week our topic is Jitsu wa Watashi wa which translates to "the truth is I'm a ...".  It follows a high school student who is horrible at keeping secrets who finds out that his crush is an airheaded vampire and quickly finds himself protecting the secrets of several other classmates.  The plot follows the chaos that ensues as each of the characters tries to enjoy a normal high school life despite their secrets and dysfunctional personalities. 

Meandering Mondays: Geek Life: Part 2 Humans vs. Zombies

Hi again everyone, last week I talked about the Gaming Club so this week I'm going to talk about Humans versus Zombies.  HVZ is the club that organizes week long rounds of Nerf tag that simulate the zombie apocalypse. 

Fanmade Saturdays: Anime Boston Amvs Top Picks

Hi again everyone, it's my turn to do the Saturday post once again. This time I'm going ot share a few of my favorite AMVs from Anime Boston in years past.

The first is Festival of Lights from 2011

Next is Prelude to dream also from 2011

Followed by Celebrating a Decade of Anime from 2010

And I'll round off this batch with RadioAkshun from 2013

see you all on Monday.

Meandering Mondays: Geek Life: part 1 Gaming club

Now that we've completed our voting for our first fall lineup I figured I'd mention some of the other organizations that are part of Geek Life on campus.  The four members of Geek Life and the Gaming club, Qudditch Team, Humans versus Zombies and the Anime club.  This week I'm going to to go over the basics of the Gaming club and their subsidiary activity as the URI Poke'mon League.

Anime Review: K

So this week's topic is K often called K project to make it easier to identify and search for.  We watched this in club last year and it was a hit so let's get down to business.  The basic premise of the series is following the main character Shiro as he becomes involved in a conspiracy amongst the seven Kings and their vassals.  Each King has powerful abilities which are granted to their followers which they use to pursue their own goals.

Meandering Mondays: Nuzlocke Comics

Hi again everyone, sorry for being late with this, First Night was a big success even with the sudden downpour.  This combined with all of my roommates moving in distracted me enough that I'm running a bit late today.  So in honor of my roommates this week's post is about to topic one of my friends is a massive fan of, Nuzlocke run webcomics.