Sarah

Sarah's been writing about her love of manga and anime since Whenever - and first started watching via Le Club Dorothée in France...

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Anime Review

One Piece Volume 2

The first box-set of One Piece left viewers halfway through the Baratie arc, with Luffy aboard the floating restaurant and under attack from the villainous and self-styled indestructible…

• 8th September 2013
Anime Review

Persona 4: The Animation Volume 3

In the quiet little provincial backwater of Inaba, it seems that the murderer may still be still at large. And even as Yu and his Scooby Gang friends experience the rites of passage that every manga/anime…

• 16th August 2013
Anime Review

Steins;Gate Volume 1

“My text travelled backward in time!”

Rintaro ‘Okarin’ Okabe enjoys role-playing the mad scientist Kyouma Hououin (wearing a white lab coat, pretend-talking via…

• 8th August 2013
Anime Review

Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere

Plot Summary: In a distant future, Japan is divided into feudal territories, which have been conquered and are ruled by outside countries. The flying city-ship Musashi, which holds the remnants…

• 5th August 2013
Anime Review

Tiger & Bunny Volume 3

Episodes 14-19

“You made two mistakes unfortunately. First: I’m not a Hero. Second: this is my idea of justice.” Lunatic

After the tense and spectacular showdown between…

• 1st August 2013
Anime Review

One Piece Volume 1

“You want my treasure? You can have it. I left it everything I gathered together in one place. Now you just have to find it!” The last words of Gold Roger, the King of the Pirates.

Monkey…

• 19th July 2013
Anime Review

Blood-C

The setting is idyllic. The old temple overlooks a peaceful lake and the priest’s daughter and shrine maiden, Saya Kisaragi (Nana Mizuki/Alexis Tipton) sets out singing every day on her…

• 26th June 2013
Anime Review

Waiting in the Summer

Highschooler Kaito Kirishima (Nobunaga Shimazaki) is out with his 8 mm camera one night when he spots a dazzlingly bright light descending rapidly through the darkness toward him. The next thing,…

• 10th June 2013
Anime Review

Fractale

Clain (Yu Kobayashi/Brina Palencia), a young teenaged boy, lives in a cottage on the edge of the cliff overlooking the sea, with his dog, his mother and father. Correction: with the virtual doppels…

• 6th May 2013
Anime Review

Tiger & Bunny Volume 2

Tiger & Bunny Episodes 8 – 13

‘Do we really need heroes???’ (Newsfeed Stern Bild City)

As the sinister and grotesque Lunatic continues to pose a real threat to the Heroes,…

• 30th April 2013
Anime Review

Vampire Princess Miyu

Princess Miyu is a vampire chosen to act as Guardian of the Eastern World with the task of tracking down shinma (demon gods) hiding in contemporary Japan to prey on mortals. Aided by Larva, her eternal…

• 19th April 2013
Anime Review

Persona 4: The Animation Volume 2

Episodes 10-17

Can Yu and friends save teen idol Rise from herself as she is the next one to be pushed into the TV screen and appear on the sinister Midnight Channel? Naoto Shiragane (Romi Park/Mary…

• 28th March 2013
Anime Review

Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts

You have to feel sorry for the students of Class 2-F at Fumizuki Academy. The losers in the educational experiment (or ESB) promoted by the principal, they have to put up with the worst educational…

• 11th February 2013
Anime Review

Tiger & Bunny Volume 1

Hero TV Live is the must-watch show in Sternbild City. Producer Agnes Joubert and her indomitable team follow the crime-fighting exploits of the city’s superheroes as they compete to …

• 4th February 2013