Children of The Blazing Fist

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• Le Portrait De Petite Cossette Review: Like Dorian Grey But With A Ghost And Surrealism

  By Franklin Raines on March 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Anime has an interesting mixed history with the horror genre. Usually action based series that just happens to involve horror tropes like vampires in the case of Hellsing or werewolves in the case of Princess Resurrection, fit under this umbrella… Read More ›

• Crossed Special: Comparing The Then And Now Of Comic’s Favorite Human Atrocity Part 2

  By Franklin Raines on March 17, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Crossed: Psychopath is all together a different beast than the original. Written by David Lapham and drawn by Raulo Caceres, familiar names in the Avatar Press catalog.  The story starts several years after the happening world is infested with crossed Marauding bands… Read More ›

• Star Crash Review: Breaking New Ground By Looking Into Science Fiction Post Star Wars

  By Franklin Raines on March 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  During the time between Star Wars’ initial release in 1977 through the early eighties, there have been countless movies whose creation seemed to only try to cash in on the Star Wars’ success. Every one of these films would borrow/steal… Read More ›

• Crossed Special: Comparing The Then And Now Of Comic’s Favorite Human Atrocity Part 1

  By Franklin Raines on March 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Story time is upon us here tonight at CTBF and the story in question is one that started it all and the genre that constitutes one-fourth of this site. Yeah, I feel like introducing you (sea of darting eyes) to… Read More ›

• Not Love But Delicious Foods Review: Food Priced So High That You Are Obligated To Love It

  By Franklin Raines on March 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Of all the tons of manga released in the United States over the last ten years, encompassing various out-there titles, very few would go classified as the adult woman world of Josei. This manga’s demographic, constitutes an audience of older… Read More ›

• Megazone 23 Special – Part 1: So You Just Combined Streets of Fire With Science Fiction?

  By Franklin Raines on February 29, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Megazone Part 1 was directed and part created by Noboru Ishiguro. He seems to have shared the director’s chair with recognizable names like Leiji Matsumoto on Space Battleship Yamato and Shoji Kawamori on the Macross movie The Super Dimension Fortress… Read More ›

• What Happens When CTBF Takes On The Megazone 23Complete Collection?

  By Franklin Raines on February 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Anime as a medium goes through the same (or similar, from my viewpoint) creative processes of any other visual entertainment work. At a certain stage in a production, financial backing from producers has to come into play. In 1985, when… Read More ›

• The City of Lost Children Review: Come On Guys, It Is Not “That” Weird

  By Franklin Raines on February 21, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  As my taste in film develops with age, I find myself drifting ever closer to works with a French origin, yet always from a unique source. My knowledge of director Christophe Gans’ efforts like Silent Hill and Brotherhood of The… Read More ›

• Memories Review: Two Out Of Three Is Not Half-Bad

  By Francisco Garcia Fuentes on February 16, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  This is the first anthology I have reviewed in my short life as a reviewer, so meeting with some unfamiliarity was unavoidable. For my first anthology, 1995’s Memories was a bit disappointing, yet not  without its achievements. Memories is co-directed by… Read More ›

• CotBF Now On Facebook

  By Alejandro Hajdar on February 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  After such a long time coming we here have now created a Facebook group. Updates will be given and notifications will be sent when ever we post up a review or we just happen to be going to a local… Read More ›

• Ancient Joe Review: Taking From The Past To Incorporate Into The Present

  By Franklin Raines on February 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Folk tales are considered a vital part of a region’s cultural heritage and tradition. North America is breaming with such stories:  John Henry and his role as a hard working steel driver on nineteenth century train tracks, the Native American… Read More ›

• The Other White Meat: Zombie Powder Review

  By Alejandro Hajdar on February 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Released and serialized by Shueisha, Zombie Power premiered in 1999 within Weekly Shōnen Jump. Created by Tite Kubo (Bleach), Zombie Powder follows the story of Gamma Akutabi and his search for the twelve legendary “Rings of the Dead.” The rings are said to… Read More ›

• Project A-ko Review: Follow Your Dreams

  By Franklin Raines on February 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Back in my younger days as an Anime fan; my first Anime Convention was A-Kon 19 taking place the last day of my freshman year of high school. Even though it is considered the U.S.’s oldest Anime convention, nowadays I… Read More ›

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