Showing posts with label adult. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adult. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Anime Addicts @ the Movies - Summer Wars (Samā Wōzu)

Genre:  Action, Comedy,  Romance, Thriller
Creator:  Mamoru Hosoda
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Voice Actors: Brina Palencia as Natsuki Shinohara
Michael Sinterniklaas as Kenji Koiso
J. Michael Tatum as Wabisuke Jinnouchi
Maxey Whitehead as Kazuma Ikezawa
Pam Dougherty as Sakae Jinnouchi
Distributed By:  FUNimation

Rated PG
114 Minutes
2009

Kenji is your typical teenage misfit.  He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ.  His second life is the only life he has - until the girl of this dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there.  A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI intent on using the virtual world of OZ to destroy the real world, literally.  As armageddon looms on the horizon, Kenji and his new "family" set aside their differences and band together to save the worlds they inhabit in this "near-perfect blend of social satire and science fiction."  - AnimeNewsNetwork.com




Come out for a special edtiion of Anime Addicts where we will be watching the award winning Summer Wars (Samā Wōzu) on the big screen, courtesy of FUNimation. Join fellow Otaku to watch anime, discuss manga, and help add content to the A Graphic Invasion blog. Watch a different anime every 3rd Thursday of each month from 4:00-6:00 p.m. The popcorn’s on us.

Date:  July 21, 2011
Ages:  12 and Up
Location:  Indian River Meeting Room

Anime Addicts is sponsored by FUNimation's Operation Anime.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Tokyopop In Motion



This November, Tokyopop is doing something innovative.  Each Friday they will release a motion comic of one of their titles on the video site Hulu.  This Friday look for the comic GYAKUSHU (rated OT for older teens and adults).

If you are curious as to what a motion comic will look like, check out Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Eight already on Hulu. 




If you like the Buffy motion comic, why not check out the graphic novels from one of the Chesapeake Public Library branches.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

New Adult Graphic Novels and Manga

See the latest additions to the adult graphic novel and manga collection. Click on the links to reserve your copy now!

Batman: The Cult

Deacon Blackfire, a charismatic shaman with roots as old as Gotham City itself, has amassed the city's homeless into an army, one he seemingly uses to fight crime. But Blackfire has a hidden agenda!  Batman: The Cult Synopsis - DC Universe




In a near future, technology has firmly taken root into society at large. Cybernetic implants are nothing uncommon and robots roam as plentiful as humans, all connected through their ''ghosts'' to the electronic datastreams of the net. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Public Security Section 9 find themselves in a constant battle with the newly created wave of technological terrorists and cyber-hackers. But things take a turn once Motoko gets involved in a certain case involving an extremely dangerous ''ghost''hacker nicknamed the Puppeteer, as she dives deeper and deeper into the limitless reality of the net, to reach her own startling conclusions.  Ghost in the Shell Synopsis - Anime News Network



Die Hard: Year One, Volume 1

More than a decade before the first DIE HARD movie, John McClane is just another rookie cop, an East Coast guy working on earning his badge in New York City during 1976's Bicentennial celebration. Too bad for him, nothing's ever that easy.  Die Hard Synopsis - BOOM! Studios





Connecting the movie 28 DAYS LATER to its sequel 28 WEEKS LATER, this original graphic novel continuation focuses on Selena, one of the three survivors of the first film, as she embarks on an epic journey to return to Great Britain. Joining a team of American war journalists hell bent on venturing into the heart of Infected territory, they must learn the cold, hard truth of what it takes to survive in the U.K. after the Infection has spread.  28 Days Later Synopsis - BOOM! Studios



Iron Man: I am Iron Man

Tony Stark is a billionaire weapons maker…who’s given a taste of his own medicine. When he’s wounded and taken prisoner in the Middle East and forced to build a missile for insurgents, Tony creates a suit of armor to keep him alive and blast his way out! Now Tony sees the folly of his greed, and sets out to right wrongs as the armored avenger…Iron Man!  Iron Man Synopsis - Marvel




It's summer in New York, but a "chill" has settled over the city – a serial killer is on the loose, and the ritualized murders are becoming increasingly sadistic. The NYPD and the FBI have a suspect: a gorgeous young woman named Arlana. The only problem is that every witness provides a different description of her. None of it makes any sense to anyone except Martin Cleary, a beaten-down Irish cop from Boston with a whopper of a secret in his past – and a past that may go back a century or two .  The Chill Synopsis - Vertigo Comics



Fringe

FBI Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant scientist Walter Bishop and his estranged son Peter investigate the world of "fringe science" (telepathy, time travel, etc.) following suspicions that the large scientific research company, Massive Dynamic, is experimenting on the general public.  Fringe Synopsis - WildStorm Comics




“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who ages in reverse: He is born seventy years old and becomes younger as the years progress. This faithful graphic-novel adaptation chronicles Benjamin Button’s many adventures: He falls in love with a woman who ages normally (this causes complications), starts a family, and establishes a successful business. In his later years, he attends Harvard and plays on their football team. By the time he is an old man, Benjamin Button resembles a baby.  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Synopsis - Quirk Books



JLA: Year One

The definitive tale of the JLA's formation is back in a new printing of the massive book starring The Flash, Green Lantern, Black Canary, Martian Manhunter and Aquaman. Collecting the entire, original twelve-issue miniseries!  JLA: Year One Synopsis - DC Universe




What would you do for a million dollars? Would you resurrect a two and one half century old corpse? Harold Gaynor poses just that question to Animator and part-time vampire hunter, Anita Blake... Plus, some crime scenes are even too horrible for a vampire slayer… and the worse they are, the more questions they raise.  Anita Blake Synopsis - Marvel



Farscape: D'Argo's Lament

He’s been a warrior. He’s been a prisoner, falsely convicted of his wife’s murder. Now among the strange crew of the living ship Moya, D’Argo tries to protect his friends while avoiding the grip of the Peacekeepers! D’Argo and Jool only need some equipment for Moya, else she and everyone inside her dies. An important mission soon gets out of hand when D’Argo finds himself between two warring factions, each trying to use D’Argo for their own purpose!  Farscape Synopsis - BOOM! Studios




John Constantine is an unconcerned, somewhat amoral occultist with a British working-class background. He's a hero, of sorts, who manages to come out on top through a combination of luck, trickery, and genuine magical skill.  Hellblazer Synopsis - Vertigo Comics



Kookaburra K

From beyond the farthest frontiers of any solar system explored by man, a destructive force is sweeping through the universe wiping Callystes, Dakoï, Lilith and Planet Earth from the stellar map. A rocket full of refugees hurtles through space with the letter “K” emblazoned on its side. On board the unlikely crew of seven children, several adults, an ancient wizard-knight and the ghost of a cyborg travel with a mysterious cargo that will alter their fates forever.  Kookaburra K Synopsis - Marvel

Saturday, May 29, 2010

New Adult Graphic Novels and Manga

See the latest additions to the adult graphic novel and manga collection.  Click on the links to reserve your copy now!

Ooku: The Inner Chambers (Volumes 1 through 3)

In an alternative timeline of feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects men has caused a massive reduction of male population, thus women have to pick up men's jobs, changing the social structure. Now, after 80 years of the initial outbreak and current man:woman ratio of 1:4, Japan has become completely matriarchal, with women holding important political positions and men being their consort. Only the most powerful woman -- head of Tokugawa shogunate -- can keep a harem of handsome yet unproductive men, known as "Ohoku." - Ooku Synopsis - Anime News Network



Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians dead, shot by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah—cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake—reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war. In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, alive with the voices of fugitives and schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs, Footnotes in Gaza captures the essence of a tragedy. - Footnotes in Gaza Synopsis - Macmillan


It is known as “the strange plague,” and its unfortunate victims are referred to only as “unmentionables” or “dreadfuls.” All over England, the dead are rising again, and now even the daughters of Britain’s best families must devote their lives to mastering the deadly arts. Elizabeth Bennet is a fearsome warrior whose ability with a sword is matched only by her quick wit and even sharper tongue. But she faces her most formidable foe yet in the haughty, conceited, and somehow strangely attractive Mr. Darcy. As the two lovers meet in the ballroom and on the battlefield, they’ll soon learn that nothing—not even bands of ninjas, hordes of flesh-eating zombies, or disapproving aunts—can stop true love. - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Synopsis - Del Rey


In the future, a virus has infected most of the population of Earth, turning them into zombie-esque creatures. Earth's last hope may be Zoichi Kanoe, and he isn't even human. His journey for salvation leads to unimaginable danger. - Biomega Synopsis - Anime News Network


After millennia in hiding, Mina Tepes, the Princess of the ancient covenant and ruler of all vampires, wants change. Using the vast wealth of the Tepes line, she has paid off the entire gross national debt of Japan and in so doing, gained the authority to create a "special district" off the coast of Japan that is to become the future haven to vampires the world over. Now, on the eve of the landmark press conference announcing the existence of vampires to the world, terrorists and rival factions plot to assassinate Mina before she has a chance to make her world-changing announcement. - Dance in the Vampire Bund Synopsis - Anime News Network