The Team

Anthony Moores (Antz)

News Writer Guy/Blog Owner

Anthony was first exposed to anime back in the days of Dragon Ball Z. Through the years he kept watching whatever showed up on TV in Canada, which wasn’t very much, and only recently got into collecting DVDs. And by recently he means 2008ish, which isn’t even really that recent. Nowadays he watches crap like Sekirei and Queen’s Blade while drinking heavily. Actually that’s a lie. He does it sober because he hates himself. He mostly posts news and junk, but sometimes he reviews anime. Sometimes. Not very often though. Because to review anime you have to watch anime, and that’s way too much work.

He enjoys Spice and Wolf, and School Rumble, and Berserk, and other anime that will never actually be finished as anime. If you have a favourite anime don’t tell him lest he enjoy it too and curse it to never be finished.

Email: antzthegreat@gmail.com (don’t actually email me I don’t read emails from people I don’t know)

Twitter: AntztheGreat

Anime-Planet: AntztheGreat

PSN: AntztheGreat

Anthony Simpson (OtakuAnthony)

Anime Reviewer

Anthony first got a glimpse into the world of anime in the mid 1990’s when Sailor Moon was shown on American TV.  For the next 10 years he had an on and off relationship with anime, and would watch what was on TV at the time (early 2000’s there were more shows on than now) along with attempting to buy DVD’s with the little money he had at the time.  Within the last 3 years, he has been in the on path with anime going full throttle getting into lots of debt and not regretting one bit of it.

He also enjoys playing video games, watching auto racing, talking about technology, and yelling at people on anime forums.

Email: asimpson2006@comcast.net

Twitter: OtakuAnthony

Anime-Planet: OtakuAnthony

Jay Agan (JaySteevee)

Has been cognizant of anime since the 1960s way before it was called “Japanimation” (Them there wierd cartoons!) so is old enough to be getting crap in the mail from the AARP. Anime is only a small part of his viewing hobby, he mostly watches pre-80s live action films. Not into “anime flavor of the week” so any articles will be on older shows or whatever strikes his fancy (military, sci-fi & “Theological” anime). Other interests include history, reading & radio.

Email: jayguy.agan@gmail.com

Jd Banks (machineslife)

Manga/Visual Novel Reviewer

Sailor Moon was the first anime Jd watched when she was twelve years old–and she absolutely hated it. But from watching the transforming teens, Jd’s interest in anime and manga grew. It was a very different time then. She was around to collect the last hard-copy issues of TokyoPop, Mixx, and Smile magazines, as well as watch anime on VHS.  Even the manga she collected at the time were affordable outside of conventions. Still, as her love for anime and manga grew, so did her curiosity about Japanese culture. After graduating from college with two degrees, Jd was accepted into the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme to live and work in the Land of the Rising Sun. Now she lives in Okinawa, Japan, hoping to decipher the cultural basis of anime and manga.

Email: thejade9@yahoo.com

Twitter: jeridel

Skype: jeridel.banks

Cole Paquette (nyanman)

Manga/Visual Novel Reviewer

I won’t lie-I haven’t been the most avid consumer of manga, anime, and VNs. I was first introduced to manga through a gift from my uncle of one of the Doraemon comics. It was also my first introduction to reading right to left. I was so young at the time, and read that comic so many times, that right to left never became something I really thought about. The very first animation I watched was My Neighbor Totoro, a movie that I absolutely loved. It’s almost poetic that so many years later I would finally get around to watching the movie that was usually bundled with it-Grave of The Fireflies. Some other early manga that I own from when I was little includes Et Cetera, Crest Of The Stars, and Cowboy Bebop Shooting Stars #2.

I tend to prefer a series to have a strong story and characters that develop and change, and overall wraps up everything into one nice package. I also like manga for the reason I got into it heavily in the last couple years, and why I loved it initially-it had fun. It was always willing to do something new and different, and I have seen that starting to disappear from many mainstream series, so I decided to review, make my voice heard, and hopefully join he ranks of those who care enough to try to prevent the ‘downside of the industry.’
I also like series that do something different with a given genre-they have the audacity to try something new and break out from the mold.

I really like classic/older series that people tend to not have heard of-sometimes, they are hidden gems that should be recognized, sometimes they aren’t. It’s fun to look at a series that every other review place has no idea it exists.

Email: apt95@earthlink.net

Twitter: nm_review