Essential Anime Episode 52: Cat's Eye

Essential Anime Episode 52: Cat's Eye

In episode 52 of Essential Anime Justin talks but the cat and mouse thief anime Cat's Eye. The three Kisugi sisters—Rui, Hitomi and Ai—during the day run a small cafe called "Cat's Eye." To discover the whereabouts of their father, the artist Michael Heintz, who has disappeared, Hitomi and her sisters rob art galleries as the smart and mysterious thief "Cat's Eye

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Essential Anime Episode 51: Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

Essential Anime Episode 51: Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

This week for Essential Anime Justin and Ashley goes into the collection and talk about Full Metal Alchemist. Abandoned by their father as kids, two young brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric lived with their mother in a small town called Resembool. After losing their mother to a terminal illness, they try to resurrect her using alchemy - a science which allows you to transform physical matter from one form to another.

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Essential Anime Episode 50: Ouran Highschool Host Club

Essential Anime Episode 50: Ouran Highschool Host Club

This week for Essential Anime Justin and Ashley goes into the collection and talk about Ouran Highschool Host Club. At the ultra prestigious Ouran High School, Haruhi Fujioka looks for a quiet place to read and walks into an unused music room, and accidentally stumbles across the notorious Ouran High School Host Club.

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Essential Anime Episode 49: Violence Jack

Essential Anime Episode 49: Violence Jack

This week for Essential Anime Justin goes into his anime collection and talks about Violence Jack. In a hell-torn Japan, where motorcycle gangs and violence overrun the country; one man named Violence Jack stands up to it all. He fights violence with violence.

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Essential Anime Episode 47: Tokyo Magnitude 8 0

Essential Anime Episode 47: Tokyo Magnitude 8 0

The devastation is unleashed in the span of seconds. Yielding to centuries of unrelenting pressure, an ancient rift in the Earth gives way and a force equivalent to over a thousand atomic bombs erupts beneath the feet of the citizens of the world's largest mega-cities!

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Essential Anime Episode 45: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Essential Anime Episode 45: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

In Zeta Gundam, we see the future world of the Universal Century through a dark mirror. Having defeated the Zeon menace, the Earth Federation has itself become cruel and oppressive. A new generation of Gundam mobile suits is created not to fight for peace, but to punish the enemies of the state, and yesterday's villains must become today's heroes in order to balance the scales of justice. When a young civilian named Kamille Bidan is caught up in the rebellion, he little suspects the price he will pay in the fight for freedom. From Yoshiyuki Tomino, the director of the original Mobile Suit Gundam series!

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Essential Anime Episode 44: Lupin The 3rd Island of the Assassins

Essential Anime Episode 44: Lupin The 3rd Island of the Assassins

The "Tarantulas" are the most fearsome gang of assassins on the face of the planet. But, in order to solve a dark mystery from his past, Lupin must lower himself in to the heart of the spider's lair! Can Lupin fight an assassin army, steal their fabled cache of gold, find a cure for an 'incurable' poison, and get the girl, all at the same time? It's going to be nonstop adventure as the gang tries to escape the Island of Assassins!

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Essential Anime Episode 43: You're Under Arrest

Essential Anime Episode 43: You're Under Arrest

Running late on her first day as a patrol woman for the Bokuto Police Department, spunky moped rider Natsumi Tsujimoto decides to take several shortcuts, only to be chased down and cited by mechanical genius and expert police driver Miyuki Kobayakawa. Upon arrival at the precinct, Natsumi finds out that her new partner is the same woman who ticketed her earlier. At first, she doesn't trust Miyuki, but in a short period of time, they develop an unbreakable friendship that overcomes traffic accidents, reckless drivers and even the strongest typhoons to hit Tokyo.

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Essential Anime Episode 42: Voices of a Distant Star

Essential Anime Episode 42: Voices of a Distant Star

Although it looks like a studio work, Voices of a Distant Star is a personal film, made almost entirely by a single artist, Makoto Shinkai. Mikako and Noboru are separated at the beginning of high school in 2046. She's accepted into the training program for mecha pilots to fight the aliens who attacked human settlements on Mars. As she moves across the miles and, ultimately, light years, she sends messages that the forlorn Noboru patiently awaits. 

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Essential Anime Episode 40: Teknoman

Essential Anime Episode 40: Teknoman

The year is 2087, and humanity is about to lose its position as the dominant life form on planet Earth. An endless swarm of biomechanical beings known as the Venomoids descend from space. Earth's Space Knights are no match for the Venemoid champions, the Teknomen. When the young pilots Ringo Richards and Star Summers find a wounded stranger named Blade, humanity gains one last hope. Blade is able to transform into a Teknoman, but he has no memories and fights to protect Earth. His opponents are not only the endless alien menace, but also the other Teknomen -- who were once human, and his family and friends.

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Otakus & Geeks Essential Anime Episode 38: Blackjack The Movie

Otakus & Geeks Essential Anime Episode 38: Blackjack The Movie

Black Jack may not have a medical license, but that hasn't stopped him from becoming the world's most in-demand surgeon. Blessed with inhuman medical abilities, he operates for hire for anyone who has enough money. But in addition to curing those who are ill, he has another mission: to protect humanity from a race of superhuman beings who want to destroy mankind. Using his medical skills, Black Jack works to discover where these evil beings came from and how they can be stopped.

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Otakus & Geeks: Essential Anime Episode 37 - Lily C.A.T.

Otakus & Geeks: Essential Anime Episode 37 - Lily C.A.T.

In this sci-fi anime, a space voyage goes horribly wrong for a crew when they discover a sinister criminal onboard. A mystery member of the crew, a prisoner looking to escape Earth at all costs, is leaking a deadly virus that kills the team off one by one. Can they uncover the criminal's identity before it is too late?

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