The brightest star of this week's update is Angelo's advance review of Banner of the Stars II, Volume 1. Click here to find why Angelo has mixed feelings about this latest offering in the Banner saga.

Complementing Angelo's lone star, Puppet Princess offers up a trinary star system. Central to this system is her analysis of TOKYOPOP's original venture into the world of domestic anime, Spring and Chaos. Click here to learn why she feels it just doesn't quite work as a tribute to poet Kenji Miyazawa. Puppet Princess's secondary entry in this system is a review of Himiko-den's third volume. To get her take on exactly how this last volume fails to deliver, click here. Her tertiary offering covers the fifth volume of Steel Angel Kurumi. Click here to discover why she sees this as lesson in what not to do when building up a franchise legacy.

Finally, RPGuy rounds out this constellation of reviews with a binary star system. First in the revolution comes his review of Volume 2 of Dirty Pair Flash. To find how he felt it was a strong followup to the first volume, click here. Finally, RPGuy shares his thoughts on the third volume of Tsukikage Ran. Click here to get his overview of how well this volume continues the Ran tradition.