darkstorm

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

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Anime Review

Romeo X Juliet Volume 4

In the final act of the original Shakespeare play, a great misunderstanding and the rival families failing to make amends lead to the death of the star-crossed lovers: one taking a vial of poison…

• 3rd September 2011
Anime Review

Black Butler Volume 1

To the commoners of Great Britain, Ciel looks like a normal noble boy with a smart looking butler by his side. To those in the know, however, not only is Ciel known as the Queen’s ‘hound…

• 29th August 2011
Anime Review

Romeo X Juliet Volume 3

The honeymoon is over. The secret is out. Juliet’s identity has been revealed and is now held captive in Montague’s prison, sentenced to death in two days’ time. Luckily she’s not held for…

• 14th August 2011
Anime Review

Bamboo Blade Volume 2

With his job on the line, Toraji sets out to get his team ready for the Preliminary Tournament, and with the new addition of Azuma to make a full Kendo team, the dream seems to be slowly becoming a reality.…

• 13th August 2011
Anime Review

Vampire Knight Guilty Volume 4

As we draw the last few drops of blood from Vampire Knight Guilty, we start with episode 11 that wraps up several minor plot points and prepares the audience for the final battle. This includes Kaien…

• 9th August 2011
Anime Review

Vampire Knight Guilty Volume 3

I warn now you that this review will contain some spoilers. I shall also warn you that this is the point in the series where it takes a sinister turn; with twisted relationships and shocking revelations…

• 11th July 2011
Anime Review

Corpse Princess Volume 1

Everyone knows the basic ingredients to making a cake – flour, eggs, butter, sugar – but not everyone can make a decent cake. You can have the right ingredients but unless you know how to properly…

• 9th June 2011
Anime Review

My-HiME: Anime Legends

When Mai Tokiha and her sick brother Takumi are transferred to the boarding school Fuka Academy, she never expected her life to be turned upside down so suddenly. From the giant monsters known …

• 12th May 2011
Anime Review

Vampire Knight Volume 4

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students. The Day Class is filled with blissfully ignorant humans, unaware of the evil lurking in their school with their biggest concern being the up-coming…

• 27th March 2011
Anime Review

Gravitation: Lyrics of Love

Before the well known anime hit Japanese TV’s in 2001, there was another adaptation of the boy’s love manga, Gravitation, in the form of an OVA in 1999. Animated by a completely different company…

• 3rd March 2011
Anime Review

Vampire Knight Volume 3

Disc 3 takes a dive into Zero’s past whilst also introducing us to the first season’s main antagonist. Starting with episode 8; we’re given more flesh to the vampire folklore as Takuma’s grandfather…

• 6th February 2011
Anime Review

Vampire Knight Volume 2

Disc 2 of the Vampire Knight anime contains 3 episodes that mostly serve as flashbacks, padding out the back story to our 3 main characters and the origins of the school the story is set in.

Almost…

• 13th January 2011
Manga Review

Cardcaptor Sakura: Omnibus

CLAMP is a very well known and respected manga group with many adored titles under their belts ever since their debut in 1987. Dating from 1996, Cardcaptor Sakura is arguably one of their most loved…

• 2nd January 2011
Anime Review

Pretear: #1 & #2

Himeno is a typical 16 year old girl; apart from the fact that she now lives in a huge mansion with her new step mum and 2 step sisters after her father suddenly remarries. She’s an outcast in…

• 11th December 2010
Anime Review

Vampire Knight Volume 1

Since their debut into fiction in Bram Broker’s 1897 novel, Dracula; vampires have been envisioned and redesigned by multiple different writers, film makers, artists and imaginations across…

• 15th November 2010