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Title: White Dragon
Author: Wada Shinji
Artist: Kinutani Yu

Summary borrowed from OurManga: Pursued by the mob, a young child seeks the protection of White Dragon, an assassin with the ability to morph into male or female, and kills by using… water…

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The sad thing is that I never got to finish this, but I did read some of the books, enough to know that it was good. If the makers of “White Dragon” would like me to review the rest, please send me English translated copies and I would be happy to oblige  (^_^)/

The artwork in White Dragon is all clean lines and straight story, there’s very little messing around, which gives it a serious air. The main character is an assassin that kills with a mysterious method and has never failed in a mission. The girl is the daughter of someone he once knew, come to seek his help. But all she really brings him is trouble, yet he keeps on bending backward to help her out and faces a rivalry of his own.

The MC doesn’t seem too interested in relationships with anyone, and there is some cross-dressing involved that kind of points to something deeper going on in his head. And he really seems to go out of his way to help the girl, and there does seem to be a kind of “maternal” vibe going on between them that is cute, but also kind of creepy.
Straight up assassin fare, with him going into various undercover situations to get his mark.

The White Dragon is an unstoppable killer, able to get around any kinds of security someone thinks to come up with, and always leaves his target DEAD.

Very awesome. Appeals mightily to the 12 year old boy in me.

Rating: 3 … Read the rest “RE BOOK: White Dragon, by Wada Shinji [manga]”

Title: Real Steel (2011)
Genre: sci-fi, boxing, ROBOTS
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Written by: John Gatins (screenplay), Dan Gilroy (story)
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly

Summary borrowed from IMDB: A future-set story where robot boxing is a popular sport and centered on a struggling promoter (Jackman) who thinks he’s found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he also discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.

aStore: DVD, Blu-Ray, digital

My rating: 3 out of 5. A great popcorn movie, but as I’m not a 12-year old boy, probably something I’d only watch once.

Review: Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a down on his out ex-boxer, current robot boxing contestant. A foolhardy risk taker, he owes money all over the place and is desperate for a single win. But when his ex-girlfriend is killed in an accident, Charlie is left with the custody of the eleven year old son he’s never met.

The boy, Max, has been taken in by his maternal aunt who wants to have custody of him. Charlie agrees to sign the custody papers after talking her much-older husband into ponying up $100,000 to pay for the child–half now and half later.

Charlie takes the boy and uses the money to buy himself a new robot boxer. From there, it becomes an all-out rock ’em, sock ’em  robot experience.

What you have here is Hugh Jackman, a bunch of giant robots, a cute kid, and an underdog story. So if you like all that… this is your movie. And even if you don’t like all that, it’s still a popcorn movie that will leave you thoroughly entertained.

Haunted by the ghost of you,
the things you said,
and made me do;
the darkness that called out to me,
pulled me in,
set me free.
I lie here in my bed at night,
dream of you,
our Maybe Life,
regret the choices that we made,
the love you took into the grave.