2003
Noah’s Barks pages covering things relating to the year 2003.
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Street Fighter (2003 comic)
Udon’s long-running adaptation of ‘Street Fighter’ has its first bout covered. Also: what came before it? (read more)
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Fullmetal Alchemist
While largely overshadowed by its reboot, ‘Brotherhood,’ the original adaptation of ‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ has plenty of its own qualities to offer—with some being superior. (read more)
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Cromartie High School
This extravaganza of insanity and parody is one of the funniest anime ever produced, due in large part to ADV’s pitch-perfect English dub. (read more)
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Avant-Garde Yumeko
‘Avant-Garde Yumeko’ is Shūzō Oshimi’s semenal coming-of-age short story about a girl’s "unconventional" artistic influence. (read more)
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Mermaid Forest
Legendary manga author Rumiko Takahashi’s series of parables about immortality are adapted in Mermaid Forest. Why didn’t that equate to a good series? (read more)
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Smile
Move over, ‘Hamtaro.’ ‘Smile’ is a music video about a hamster watching a girl get back together with her ex-boyfriend. Life’s one big hamster wheel, ain’t it? (read more)
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A Traveler’s Diary
These six surrealist fantasy vignettes offer a tour through a bizarre, picturesque, and often humorous world. (Includes ‘A Traveler’s Diary Specials’) (read more)
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Mazinkaiser: Deathmatch! General Dark
Mazinkaiser clashes with one of its greatest rivals in this extended finale to the Mazinkaiser OVA. (read more)
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Texhnolyze
Texhnolyze is a dystopian sci-fi treatise about the end of humanity—not from self-destruction, but a slow degradation into nihilism stemming from a lack of purpose, drive, and ingenuity. What happens if we simply fade out instead of burn away? (read more)
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.hack//Legend of the Twilight
The bastardized anime for ‘.hack//Legend of the Twilight,’ possibly my first non-Toonami-adjacent manga. (Includes ‘Offline Meeting Special’) (read more)