High school student Kimihiro Watanuki has been working part-time for Yuko Ichihara for a while now and, as he carries out his daily chores, cleaning her mysterious shop and preparing her meals,…
“Living in the darkness and still being able to remember the light – I don’t think that’s a bad thing at all.”
And so the last four stories of Ginko, the travelling Mushi-master, weave their subtle…
“What if I had died?”
Kafuka Fura is a high school girl with a supremely positive attitude to life. So when, as she’s walking to school through the cherry blossoms, she comes across a man trying to…
“There is no such thing as coincidence. There is only inevitability.”
Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student with a big problem. Spirits – usually unpleasant ones – are attracted to him. They…
“Human beings are truly disgusting creatures.” Rem (shinigami)
Top student Light Yagami has given up the Death Note and, as a consequence, he no longer remembers that he was Kira, the ‘righteous’…
Love – the one force that simply won’t be denied.
Young singer Shuichi Shindou’s hopes and dreams//aspirations are constantly being raised higher – only to be cruelly dashed. Just as his group…
A new volume of Ai Morinaga’s wickedly funny manga is always something to look forward to and this one is no exception. High-school girl Hana has only two main loves in life: sleeping and eating.…
Every once in a while, a new manga series comes along which stands out from the crowd. ‘07-Ghost’ by Yuki Amemiya and Yukino Ichihara is one of those rare beasts that grabs the heart and mind from …
Love – the one force that simply won’t be denied.
Shuichi Shindo, the pink-haired vocalist of the up-and-coming band Bad Luck, has fallen in love with Eiri Yuki, the charismatic but cold-hearted…
When Light Yagami wins a place at a top university, he is surprised to find that the fellow top-scoring student chosen to give the opening address is the same shambling, unkempt young man he noticed…
It’s summer break – and time to hit the beach!
Well, I realize that it’s winter over here in the UK and, as I write this review, it’s cold, dreary and grey… but at Yagami High, school’s out and the guys…
“To those of you who betrayed me, who stole everything from me, I will give death and despair unto death.”
Alexandre Dumas’s classic tale of betrayal and revenge ,‘The Count of Monte Cristo’, is…
At one time or another in their lives, everyone has probably made the fervent wish, ‘If only I could turn the clock back and do things differently…’ Makoto Konno – an ordinary high school girl – finds…
“Die already – you bastard!” Shinn Asuka to Kira Yamato above Orb.
Spoiler Alert! In spite of my best intentions, as this series reaches its penultimate volume, beware, there may be spoilers ahead……
Feeling tired, jaded, stressed-out by the noise and pressures of modern life? Then try watching ‘Mushi-shi’. Just a single episode will spirit you away into a very different world. Here, the …
“We live our lives at the mercy of the times.” Gilbert Durandal
New Gundams for Shinn and Athrun have been delivered from Chairman Durandal: the Destiny and the Legend. But Athrun, having seen …
“I’m tired of living like this. I wish I could escape…and just fly off to a better place.”
Twins – especially identical twins – have been a favourite subject for authors…
Caught up in the ongoing hostilities between the Earth Alliance and the Plants, the young Gundam pilots struggle to make sense of their lives. And it’s Shinn’s misfortune to have developed feelings…
“There isn’t any way that we can win.”
The Sanzo party have fought ‘god’ – and lost. Badly injured, they have just only escaped his castle with their lives. Worst of all, ‘god’ has taken the precious…
The unlikely quartet of warriors for the forces of good, the Sanzo party (gun-toting priest Genjyo Sanzo, irrepressible monkey boy Son Goku, chain-smoking, womanizing kappa Sha Gojyo, and…
