darkstorm

A creative, writer, editor and director with a love for video games, anime and manga.

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News

“Attack on Titan” – Beyond the Walls World Tour – The Official Concert comes to London!

Join this colossal celebration of music and anime, world tour starting in 2025!

darkstorm • 16th November 2024

Manga Review

[Oshi No Ko] Volumes 5, 6 and 7 Review

The 2.5D Play Arc contains many emotional highs and lows, but is the series still going strong? FInd out in our review!

darkstorm • 16th November 2024

Manga Review

This Monster Wants to Eat Me Volume 2 Review

This monster yuri series continues to be an intriguing series to devour with each page - Volume 2 is out now!

darkstorm • 14th November 2024

Manga Review

Detroit: Become Human – Tokyo Stories – Volume 1 Review

An interesting spin-off from the Quantic Dreams game with a lot of potential to tell stories within this world, but does the manga accomplish this? Find out in our review.

darkstorm • 8th November 2024

Manga Review

Whoever Steals This Book Volume 3 Review

A fun, emotionally satisfying tale of adventure about how books and stories should be shared and nurtured, not kept away from everyone. Out now via Yen Press.

darkstorm • 5th November 2024

Manga Review

Whoever Steals This Book Volume 2 Review

This series isn’t perfect but it’s really trying to be an engaging, Alice in Wonderland-esque adventure with love for books and stories at the centre of it.

darkstorm • 1st November 2024

Opinion

Trick or Treat?!

It’s that time of year again: Pumpkin Spice is the flavour of the month in your local café, the supermarket shelves are filled with tempting spider/bat/skeleton snacks, and the nights are getting…

AUKN Staff • 31st October 2024

Manga Review

Turns Out My Online Friend is My Real-Life Boss! Volume 2 Review

This geeky Boys' Love manga continues to be an enjoyable read, with the relationship developing slowly but surely. Volume 2 is out now!

darkstorm • 1st October 2024

Manga Review

The Boy I Loved Became the Jaded Emperor Volume 1 Review

This fantasy manga stumbles at the very start but there’s enough really good material in here to forgive its early pacing and world-building issues - available now!

darkstorm • 25th September 2024

Anime Review

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture Episodes 1 – 12 Streaming Review

Despite a few bumps in the pacing and plot, Rozé of the Recapture is a worthy sequel to one of the biggest anime series of the 2000s. Streaming now on Disney+!

darkstorm • 8th September 2024

Anime Review

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos: The Movie Parts 1 and 2 Streaming Review

The end of Sailor Moon?! The Cosmos Movies are streaming on Netflix, read our review now!

darkstorm • 23rd August 2024

Manga Review

Miss Savage Fang: The Strongest Mercenary in History Is Reincarnated as an Unstoppable Noblewoman (Manga) Volume 1

This manga is an adaptation of a light novel of the same name (both published by Yen Press) and is out now! But does it tell the story well?

darkstorm • 2nd August 2024

Manga Review

The Villainess’s Guide to (Not) Falling in Love Volume 2 Review

Falling in love may not be the goal of the villainess, but the story is still an easy to enjoy story with pretty art, interesting story titbits shared across the book and handsome men to keep you hooked.

darkstorm • 23rd July 2024

Manga Review

The Moon on a Rainy Night Volume 5 Review

Summer is here in both in this manga and in the UK, and The Moon on a Rainy Night is a continuing evolving tale, showing the complex lives of these characters and how life-changing events can affect us.

darkstorm • 11th July 2024

Manga Review

A Sinner of the Deep Sea Volume 1 Review

An atmospheric, beautifully drawn tale with twists on The Little Mermaid story - out now!

darkstorm • 9th July 2024

Roundup

Spring 2024 Overview

Has the Spring 2024 Season proved to be a good one, filled with series that our reviewers have looked forward to, week after week? What have been the gems? Has it been a ‘something for everyone’ season…

AUKN Staff • 1st July 2024

Manga Review

The Witches’ Marriage Volume 3 Review

The final volume is now out, and this short but sweet series will please any yuri fan looking for a feel-good fantasy series that doesn’t drag on for too long.

darkstorm • 28th June 2024

Manga Review

This Monster Wants to Eat Me Volume 1

The first volume of this new yuri series lures you into its waters for a dark and devilishly good read. Check out the review now!

darkstorm • 25th June 2024

Manga Review

Turns Out My Online Friend is My Real-Life Boss! Volume 1 Review

If you love nerdy romances and Boys' Love, then we've got a treat for you - the review of the first volume of the manga is here!

darkstorm • 22nd June 2024

Manga Review

Yuri Is My Job! Volumes 10, 11 and 12 Review

Twelve volumes into its run and this yuri series pushes the characters in new and dynamic directions, and continuing to explore its themes in mature and complex ways.

darkstorm • 11th June 2024