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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Manga Review

@ Full Moon

@ Full Moon Volumes 1 & 2

David is a vampire; Marlo is half vampire, half werewolf. The young men have been close friends since childhood and in the two volumes of Sanami Matoh’s light-hearted…

• 2nd February 2012
Anime Review

Bleach: The Hueco Mundo Arc

Episodes 142-151

Captain Yamamoto forbids the Soul Reapers to go to the rescue of Orihime Inoue for in his view, she must have gone to Aizen’s side of her own free will, making her – ergo –…

• 29th November 2011
Anime Review

Bleach: The Hueco Mundo Arc

Episodes 132-141

Captain Hitsugaya is mistaken for a kid by Ichigo’s little sister (more shortie jibes here than in Fullmetal Alchemist) when she’s looking for someone to help her and her friends…

• 12th November 2011
Manga Review

xxxHolic Volume 17

The dimension witch Yūko has vanished, leaving her protégé Kimihiro Watanuki in charge of her magical shop – a shop he can now never leave. As the years pass, Watanuki carries on Yūko’s work of wish-granting,…

• 9th November 2011
Anime Review

Bleach: Arrancar: The Arrival Arc

Bleach Series 6 Part 2  Episodes 121-131

“This winter we shall fight!” Yamamoto, Captain General of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads.

The new story arc is well underway at the start of this box-set,…

• 22nd October 2011
Manga Review

I Give to You

“The world…is rejecting me.”

Ryoichi’s life has gone badly wrong. Betrayed by a lover who has run out on him, leaving him saddled with his enormous debt of thirteen million yen, he finds himself…

• 27th September 2011
Manga Review

Butterfly of the Distant Day

Saki, a gifted classical pianist and teacher, takes his younger cousin Riya, an aspiring violinist, to perform at a summer retreat in the Berkshires. But when they get there, Saki is taken aback…

• 5th September 2011
Anime Review

Vampire Knight Guilty Volume 2

(Warning: this review is not guaranteed spoiler-free!)

A rose that only blooms only once every ten years…

Kaname’s gift to Yuki stirs a forgotten memory and makes her more determined than ever…

• 10th July 2011
Anime Review

Vampire Knight Guilty Volume 1

There may be spoilers ahead. So while there’s moonlight and music and love and ro –  Sorry. Got carried away there by the heady Gothic atmosphere of Vampire Knight Guilty. But there may indeed be…

• 10th July 2011
Anime Review

Bleach Volume 11

It’s crunch-time for the Soul Society. Jin Kariya, the Bount, has come to wreak vengeance on those responsible for creating him. After centuries of persecution in the world of the living, Kariya…

• 21st February 2011
Anime Review

Bleach: The Assault

Season 5 Part 1 Episodes 92-99

And so the Bount Arc continues into Season 5 as the Bounts arrive in the world of the Soul Society hell-bent on revenge. Fast on their heels follow Ichigo and co. complete…

• 18th January 2011
News

Being Sasuke: Life in the Naruto Universe

AUKN tracked down Yuri Lowenthal at the recent London MCM Expo to find out about his role playing the moody ninja kid, Sasuke, from the hit anime show Naruto. Find out who Yuri thinks would win in …

• 9th June 2010
Anime Review

X TV Volume 5

Variations on the theme of the inevitability of destiny…

  It’s a little unfortunate that ‘Wish,’ the first episode on this disc, is basically a resume of what’s gone before, as first Kakyo…

• 27th April 2010
Anime Review

Romeo X Juliet Volume 2

As Prince Montague’s reign of terror intensifies, Juliet and Romeo find their paths constantly crossing. With his friend Benvolio gone, Romeo is becoming increasingly isolated at his father’s…

• 24th April 2010