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

Wandering Son Volume 5

“Look at her! You’d think it’s the end of the world!”

Shuichi ‘Nitorin’ Nitori (a boy who would rather have been born a girl) and his friend Yoshino Takatsuki (a girl who would rather have been born…

• 13th December 2013
Anime Review

Guilty Crown Volume 1

Life in Japan has been irrevocably changed since the day of the Lost Christmas in 2029 when a meteorite crashed onto the earth, releasing the deadly Apocalypse Virus. A few years later, all is …

• 10th December 2013
Anime Review

Arakawa Under the Bridge 2

In the little community living under the bridge beside the River Arakawa, even an ordinary game of baseball can turn into something distinctly out of the ordinary. When Kou Ichinomiya, the fine,…

• 9th December 2013
Anime Review

Arakawa Under the Bridge

‘Never be indebted to anyone.’ (The Ichinomiya family motto.)

Kou Ichinomiya knows that he is perfect; intelligent, handsome and he’s already running his own companies while still …

• 12th November 2013
Anime Review

Steins;Gate Volume 2

“El Psy Congroo.”

Rintarou Okabe, self-styled ‘mad scientist,’ has been playing with fire – and now he’s faced with the consequences of his actions. Having time-travelled or, more accurately,…

• 13th October 2013
Anime Review

Tiger & Bunny Volume 4

 Episodes 20-25

‘Wild Tiger’ Kotetsu is on the run – from everyone, even his fellow Heroes. Framed for the murder of his partner Bunny’s Aunt Samantha, with his face plastered on ‘wanted’ posters…

• 14th September 2013
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