Quotes of March, Part 4

Bamboo Dong on Shangri-La: "What I don't appreciate is that towards the end, it increasingly felt like the story was just frantically waving its hands, trying to distract from the fact that it was slowly derailing."

Paul Thomas Chapman on Spriggan: "Into this heady mix of Indiana Jones by way of Ghost in the Shell, we throw our cocky protagonist, Yu Ominae, a seventeen-year-old high school student who moonlights as a Spriggan, one of ARCAM’s elite secret agents. Yu has fabulous hair, very little personality, and a Tragic Past™, so naturally he’s the hero of this tale . . ."

Melinda Beasi on Red River: "I greet you this morning, dizzy with the particular brand of glee that can only be brought on by epic shoujo fantasy."

Kate O’Neil on The Betrayal Knows My Name: "Let this be a lesson to everyone, if you’re group of close friends is involved in terrible business and you take a group photo, your dooming yourselves. Just ask the cast of Pandora Hearts, they know."

Ash on Ai Yazawa: "Her characters come complete with flaws and are much more interesting because of it."

Justin Sevakis on Harbor Lights: "It's hard to believe now, but in the early- to mid-80s, being a dancer was pretty much the coolest thing on the planet."

"Little girls dreamed of being a famous dancer, even though basically no dancers ever became a household name. And in Japan, at a little company called Studio Pierrot, decided to make a one-shot OVA to cater to those little girls. It would have a little bit of everything those girls would like, from Cinderella to Footloose... to Die Hard."