Picture excerpt is from Oh great’s currently running manga, Air Gear. Political agendas in anime and manga? Gasp! They could have been a bit more subtle about it. This November, run to the polls and vote Omaha.

Edit: Added a translated page

As someone who hasn’t been too impressed with the selection of anime in the past few years I’ve found myself frequently going to more “exotic” avenues to fill my need for DVD hoarding. Even so far as to go into the terrible world of non-animated purchases. The horror. However my current attitude makes me more willing to try out various random things as my budget isn’t already slotted for 20+ anime DVD purchases for the next two months. That’s what eventually brought me to Oban Star-Racers, an interesting fusion in every sense of the word. The show itself is a 2D/3D experiment of sorts and the show was created by a collaboration of French and Japanese creators with the French actually leading the project.

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