STACK NZ Summer #70

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ANIME ROUND-UP

its bat and ball and goes home. It closes heaven and leaves the dead unable to rest, while the living find themselves unable to reproduce. As time passes by, humanity finds itself creeping closer and closer to extinction. But what exactly does extinction mean when the dead have nowhere to go? It seems timely that we receive the Complete Collection of Robotics; Notes at a time when Japan has promised us a full-sized, fully functioning Mobile Suit. But of course there's more to this series than giant fighting robots, it's also filled with mystery, intrigue and friendship through adversity. It's rather rare for long-running shonen series to still kick butt once the episode count gets into the hundreds, but FairyTail Collection 17 breaks the mould. The Grand Magic Games arc comes to a fiery and exciting end with new enemies and allies from unlikely sources. In an episode of many faces, Code Geass: Akito the Exiled - Episode 3 has W-O taking on the carefree lifestyle of wandering gypsies, Leila taking a one-woman fight to a terrorist organisation, and Shin making a move to take control of the entirety of Euro Britannia. And all of this in a meagre 51 minutes!

wishes that he could remember. A freshman at a Tokyo law school, he happens upon Mitsuo and it seems as though they were fated to be together. Or are they? Not only is Golden Time a wonderful love story, but it also raises some pertinent

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questions about love, destiny and happenstance. With nary a hamster in sight, Hamatora is in fact a clandestine private detective

agency manned by super- powered private dicks, and

Blue Exorcist

O ne of my favourite gets a collected release on both DVD and beautiful Bu-ray. Rin Okumura and his brother Yukio, anime series of recent years, Blue Exorcist

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handsome ones at that. The only catch is that they don't take any old case. They actually have to be interested, so you'd better step up with something juicy – and juicy is what we get when the group investigate the serial murders of fellow supers, also known as

the goodie-two-shoes of the pair, follow in the footsteps of their adoptive father. The catch is that they find themselves battling Rin's biological father, Satan. You may have heard of him. Big, horned, a bit of a grump. We all have some memories that we wish we could forget, but in GoldenTime , Banri just

Minimum Holders. SundayWithout God tells the story of a God who packs up

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