darkstorm

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

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Film Review

Film Review: A Silent Voice

Shoya Ishida is a typical delinquent elementary school boy with a large group of friends and not a care in the world, that is until a new student– Shoko Nishimiya, who happens to be deaf – joins…

• 13th March 2017
Anime Review

Review of Brothers Conflict

World-famous adventurer Hinata Rintaro is newly engaged to successful fashion designer Miwa Asahina, so to give them some privacy, Rintaro’s daughter, Ema Hinata, decides to move in with her…

• 1st March 2017
Interview

An Interview with Makoto Shinkai

Makoto Shinkai has had an interesting year, to put it lightly:  Your Name (two years in the making) was released in Japan, first as a novel in June, then as a full anime feature film the following…

• 9th November 2016
Film Review

Review: Harmony

In the future, after a nuclear war and disease have destroyed most of the world; Japan has adopted a new modern way of living called ‘lifeism’. The aim is to preserve life at all costs via implants…

• 5th November 2016
Your Name
Film Review

Your Name

Your Name

Mitsuha Miyamizu is a young girl living in the countryside, desperate to escape her mundane village life and experience the wonders of Tokyo. Her wildest dreams seem to come true when she suddenly…

• 14th October 2016
Film Review

The Empire of Corpses Review

Project Ito may seem like a studio name but it’s actually a synonym for Satoshi Ito, a Japanese science fiction writer who produced four novels before his passing in 2009. Most of his books have…

• 12th September 2016
Anime Review

Future Diary – Part 2 Review

This review will contain spoilers for Future Diary – Part 1

The game to win the title of God is still afoot, and all major players seem to have their eye on eliminating Yuki Amano first and foremost.…

• 9th July 2016
Anime Review

Tokyo Ghoul √A Review

This review contains spoilers for Tokyo Ghoul.

After enduring torture at the hands of Jason, Ken Kaneki decides to embraces his ghoul half and consume the body of his tormentor. Despite his friends…

• 14th June 2016
RWBY Volume 3 Review
Anime Review

RWBY Volume 3 Review

RWBY Volume 3 Review

The Vytal Festival tournament is finally happening at Beacon Academy, with all schools and their hunters-in-training participating. Team RWBY blast through the first stage but as they prepare…

• 7th May 2016
Fate/Zero #1 Review
Manga Review

Fate/Zero #1 Review

Fate/Zero #1 Review

Ten years before the events of Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Zero and the Fourth Holy Grail War happened in Fuyuki City, seven mages gathered together to fight in bloody combat, using their ‘Servants’…

• 19th April 2016
Anime Review

Tokyo Ghoul: Season 1

Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student living in Tokyo with an innocent crush on a girl he meets at his local café, Rize Kamishiro. After plucking up the courage to ask her out, he finds the date…

• 4th October 2015
Anime Review

Amnesia

Amnesia may be a rare occurrence in the real world but in fiction it’s a common trope inflicted either on the main character or sometimes the love interest. It’s exploited to achieve several goals…

• 28th July 2015