Alive: The Final Evolution, from Del Rey, reaches its 6th volume here. This supernatural/sci-fi series is pitched at age 16+ and so far has been a thrilling read. Volume 6 continues the story…
Chapters #16 – #19 of Alive: The Final Evolution are presented here in volume #5. Thus far, Del Rey’s supernatural/sci-fi series has had its highs and lows. It is not very original, and its post-apocalyptic…
After reading the first three volumes of Alive, it quickly threatened to become one of my favourite mangas. The third volume in particular was really compelling and I couldn’t wait to get…
‘You can choose to be barely alive. Or you can choose a definite death. So….don’t make a wrong choice.’ This is the sombre advice given to the protagonist of this story, Taisuke. After surviving…
When we left Taisuke at the end of Volume 1, he had a hole in his stomach and had just survived a fall off the top of a building. He wakes from a 3 day coma and ponders to himself, ‘Any normal human would…
It became known as “Nightmare Week”. A pandemic of global suicides suddenly hit planet Earth, apparently caused by some new kind of “suicide virus”. This coincided with a host of other strange…
This is my first encounter with the Hellsing franchise, but this is actually its third iteration. It began in manga form, with Kouta Hirano creating the original manga series which debuted in…
MÄR apparently stands for “Märchen Awakens Romance”, but let’s not worry too much about that name, because it’s not explained anywhere in this volume, so it remains a mystery to me. The inclusion…
Volume 14 of Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE continues to follow the trials and tribulations of a group of 4 dimension travelling friends. They were thrown together way back in Volume 1, each with…
On the back of this volume are written the words “Time Will Tell” and it is a very fitting phrase for this manga. Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE follows the adventures of four friends (Syaoran, Princess…
CLAMP’s xxxHolic continues here, with the ninth instalment of the popular supernatural fantasy tale. Watanuki is now intrinsically linked to his perceived rival, Dômeki, via a shared right…
When Watanuki opens Volume #7 with the line “It’s looking like good things will happen today!”, well, you just know he’s going to get into a spot of bother.
Our protagonist Watanuki still works …
The 8th volume of this fantasy story from CLAMP continues to follow Princess Sakura (of Cardcaptor Sakura fame) as she travels across multiple dimensions in search of her lost feathers. No ordinary…
Throughout the multitude of different worlds and dimensions, she is known by many names, such as ‘The Dimension Witch’ or ‘The Far Eastern Witch.’ But in this gothic fantasy story from CLAMP,…
In a place resembling Europe circa 1900, there lies a village named ‘Spirit.’ The children of the village are going missing without a trace, and terrified villagers swear it is the return of a 300…
A few months ago, I was sat in my living room with my sister and my mother, a typical lazy winter evening. They were watching some terrible reality-tv show, whilst I was minding my own business, engrossed…
