Lost in vocational confusion, I staggered through the dew soaked streets of downtown Los Angeles in the middle of the night. Sucking down a bottle of Thunderbird, devastated by a tall, leggy dame in stiletto heels and Beretta breasts, this emotionally dark character that I had turned into shuffled past the scores of shops that promised happiness in a DVD case, preying like vultures on a self-esteem so low it could look up skirts in a crowded room. Then the bright pink neon lights of an anime store whispered to me the kind of seductive lullaby I thought only came from the jail bait pitch of a Japanese schoolgirl. But when I looked up, looked up into those eyes - big, brown, studly - atop a lithe, almost emaciated frame, my spirit was born anew. And I screamed with joy, like a naughty little student samurai, at the sheer euphoria of an anime genre I had only dreamed about in the deepest recesses of my imagination... which is what this was. A dream. However, what I remembered of it now makes up this week's ...

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10: Poke A Man: The Joe Toy Journeys

9: You ,You, Hot Beau

8: Holediver

7: Bumdamn: 08th BS Team, Bumdamn Sling, and Mobile Dude Bumdamn

6: Anal Fury 2: Double Impact

5: Saiyuki

4: Mancocks Plus, Mancocks II, and, the recently completed, Mancocks 7

3: Neil Under Steven

2: Love Hima

1: Kimba, the Milky White Stallion

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Pokémon © Nintendo / CREATURES / GAMEFREAK / TV Tokyo.

Gundam Wing © Sunrise / SOTSU Agency / ANB.

Saiyuki © Minekura Kazuya / Enix.

Macross © Harmony Gold USA Inc / Tatsunoko.

Kimba, the White Lion © Tezuka Production Co. / Mushi Production Co., Ltd.