STACK #140 Jun 2016

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ANIME ROUND-UP

5 Gosick How the heck do you say it? Is it goss-ick? Is it go-sick? Well I'll tell ya, it's how you'd pronounce gothic in Japanese... kinda. The silly part is that if you actually said "gothic" in Japanese, it'd come out "goshikku". 4 Madlax This is a completely personal dislike. It's just... this title sounds like something that helps you poop easier. 3 Puella Magi Madoka Magica What a mouthful! The original title, Mahou Shojo Madoka Magica, translates to Magical Girl Madoka Magica, but why use English when you can use Latin? Let go. It's a dead language, along with Aramaic and 1337 speak! 2 The Severing Crime Edge I kinda get it, sorta. I mean, I know what all of those words are, I just don't understand what they're doing next to each other. 1 The Legend of the Legendary Heroes Double the legend, double the the. I'm quite sure this tale has been told at many a drinking establishment at 2am on a Saturday. questionable titles, some of which actually belong to really good series'! With Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie dropping this month, I thought I'd look at ODD TITLES

Class 3-E

T o be completely frank, I did none too good with the book learnin' at skool, but I would have performed even worse in Class 3-E , lovingly known as the Assassination Classroom. Season 1, Part 1 introduces us to the teacher, an alien who resembles an overgrown balloon animal, can move at the speed of sound, and has just destroyed 70 per cent of the moon. So not only do you need to focus on your reading, writing and arithmetic, you also need to brush up on your assassination skills and kill the big squid before he finishes the job. Rounding off the second season of the ubiquitous magical series, Sailor Moon R, Part 2 sees Usagi and co. take on the Black Moon Clan and their ongoing plan to destroy Crystal Tokyo. Now to keep our fingers crossed for a local release of season 3, Sailor Moon S . The imaginatively named Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie is, well, a new Ghost in the Shell movie. That is to say, there have been old Ghost in the Shell movies, but this Ghost in the Shell movie is a new one. This new movie ties up the loose ends left in the Pyrophoric

always great to see our pals from Section 9 and beautifully animated as expected. The fan favourite demonic duo of Ciel and Sebastian return in Black Butler: Book of Circus, Season 3 . At the behest of the Queen, Ciel and Sebastian are summoned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of local children. This leads the two to Noah's Ark Circus, probably just because circuses are generally creepy as all get out. Prepare for the usual amount of violence and veiled intimacy because this is every bit the series that you already know and love. If you're not a fan of blood (the onscreen kind, you sicko) then look away now, because part 2 of the live action Parasyte adaptation has got enough of it to make a butcher blush. The parasites and humans are in full war mode, that is except for Shinichi and Migi. But how will this hybrid team perform when their back is against the wall? If you, like me, were hoping to find a series about mystical purveyors of warm caffeinated beverages, you're sheer out of luck. Wizard Barristers is about the fantastical legal teams formed to defend their equally magical clients in the wizardy court of law. Just saying, Wizard Baristas the Animated Series would be a massive hit in Melbourne. Also hitting shelves this month are Kamisama Kiss: Season 2 , Mekakucity Actors the Complete Series , Re:_Hamatora the Animation Season 2 and Maken-Ki Season 2 .

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Cult storyline of the recent Arise 5 episode OVA, so isn't actually

a standalone film. Regardless, it's

The Legend of Legendary Heroes

Ghost in the Shell:The New Movie

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