Asuna is a young girl who has been forced to grow up quickly after losing her father at a young age and not having her mother around much due to her job. One day, whilst on her way up the cliff to her secret…
With Kaname nowhere to be found and his murderous actions unexplained, Yuki is taken into custody by the Vampire Hunter Society and questioned by her former guardian Kaiden Cross. Yuki herself…
It’s that time of year again; it’s cold, we’re suffering from the various bugs going round, public transport is manic, and yet we somehow have to fit in shopping for that magical…
To her classmates, Yukina Himuro is the ‘Absolute Zero Snow Woman’, a strange girl with cold hands and an equally cold stare, avoided by everyone apart from her cousin Akira. Little do they know …
Volume 8 sees the long awaited conclusion to the ‘Infinity’ arc with the biggest battle the senshi have faced so far. Naoko Takeuchi doesn’t hold back in this one; the entire planet is in danger,…
Rozen Maiden Ouverture is a 2-part OVA that seemingly takes place during Rozen Maiden Träumend.
When Jun comes home with a new brooch, Shinku seems hostile towards his kind gesture. So Souseiseki…
With the inner senshi having all graced the manga covers and introduced into the story for a while now, it’s time to meet new senshi along with a new threat in town. The local new school, Mugen Academy,…
Sara is still on the loose turning helpless female students into her vampire slaves, making Kaname’s lack of involvement to stop her suspicious to the Vampire Hunters Society. However the current…
Whether you’re a fan of supernatural fiction or not, its popularity and sudden rise in the public eye has made everyone aware of the basics; vampires drink blood, werewolves come out at …
Endings must be a daunting thing to write for story creators, because no matter what you write not every fan is going to be pleased with how their favourite characters end their tale. Every reader…
Living underneath the floorboards of a house out in the countryside are a family of Borrowers: small people who live their lives ‘borrowing’ various items from the humans that they will not miss,…
Otanashi is dead. Well, at least that’s what he’s told by the very brash female student Yuri upon waking up on the grounds of a school with no memories of how he got there or anything of his life previously.…
The BFI Southbank is no stranger to anime; despite having run Japanese animation films for several years now, it’s always a delight to view them on the big screen, especially titles that…
This review will contain spoilers for the first omnibus.
Hikaru, Fuu and Umi have never been the same since their trip to Tokyo Tower. To their friends and family the girls have suddenly become …
The ‘visual novel’ is one of the most successful video games genres in Japan; mostly found on PCs, the genre often involves static anime graphics mixed with text and a multi-branch story to create…
The film opens up bluntly with the introduction of the new character Iceland, complaining about the lack of tourism in his country. But before we can get acquainted, the planet is attacked by aliens;…
It’s already a lottery within itself to have an anime series licensed for the UK, but to have multiple versions of the same story – especially one being a translation of the original book – is rarely…
The re-released volume 4 of the Sailor Moon manga continues on from where volume 3 left off; Sailor Mars and Mercury have been captured by the new enemy known as ‘Black Moon’ and Usagi feels powerless…
It wouldn’t be too overdramatic if I said that when Kodansha announced that they had picked up the license for the Sailor Moon manga and would be re-releasing it in English revised with a new translation…
When Naoko Takeuchi first created Sailor Moon back in 1992, I highly doubt that she could have predicted the series’ success across the world. Often credited as popularizing and revitalizing…
