Title: 電撃大王 (Dengeki Daioh) May '04
Issue Date: 5/1/2004
Publisher: Media Works
Pages: 566

During my little manga run yesterday, I saw that Kino had stacks of these available. Knowing that it had the first episode for Gunslinger Girl, I thought why not.

I don't subscribe to this as of now, but it's one of the magazines I'm thinking about switching my Young Magazine subscription to when it runs out because there are a lot of comics in here that I read in tank form. The other magazine I'm interested in is, I believe, Kadokawa Dragon Ace or something like that. But I'll have to wait until August when my subscription expires.

Since I don't like starting in a middle of a series, I didn't read any of the comics. However, I did peruse it and it has a lot of titles that I'm either currently reading or currently interested in.

The ones that I'm currently reading from this magazine are: Stellvia, With Yotsuba, Gunslinger Girl, and Strawberry Marshmallows. The stuff I'm interested in are: Jubei-chan 2 (last chapter though), Onegai Twins, and much to my surprise, Maburavu. Maburavu is another video game created by Age, the same creators of Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. As I was flipping through, I saw the words "Hakuryo" which is the high school that the Kiminozo characters went to. Interesting, interesting...

The Gunglinger Girl DVD is pretty nice for a freebie. It comes in its own thinpak case with cover an everything. Most of it is to pimp the videogame/anime DVD bundle though. It doesn't have the intro or ending, but that's to be expected. The episode pretty much follows the first chapter of the manga with some scenes switched around. Henrietta and the other girls look a lot younger in the anime than they do in the manga, which I believe is a good thing. Her age is one of the factors that she's so attached to her "master." The show is presented in 1.78 aspect anamorphic widescreen, but the sound is still Dolby Digital 2 channel.

I don't think I'm going to get the series though. It was one of the series I had thought about getting last year when I saw it in Animage/Newtype, but they didn't get their DVD out in a timely fashion (plus, it's coupled with a game) and by the time the game/dvd came out, I already used the money I reserved for that show for Kiminozo. There will be others...like MADLAX.

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