It’s a high school story of unrequited love as old as time: tough guy Harima has a crush on the charming yet utterly air-headed Tenma, but she has a crush on the distant Karasuma and he only seems to…
Out of a strong Del Rey summer list, I’ve selected a few of the titles that appealed to me, hoping that there’s something here to please most tastes!
xxxHOLIC # 12 by CLAMP 13+
“There are two kinds …
“Humans are so much fun!” gleefully observes Ryuk, the shinigami, or God of Death, who has oh-so-carelessly dropped his Death Note, the notebook in which he inscribes the names of those…
The course of true love never runs smoothly in Anime Land. Even when you’re a good-natured but shy, nerdy guy like Keiichi, whose wish to get a girlfriend is granted in the most surprising and delightful…
“This is the day we send that ship to hell.” Neo Roanoake, preparing to destroy the Minerva.
Angry young ace Gundam pilot Shinn Asuka realizes that Stella, the girl he has fallen for, is not only …
Spanking new from Del Rey comes ‘Fairy Tail’, the eagerly anticipated new manga by Hiro Mashima (www.delreymanga.com) . Mashima is already known in the west as the mangaka of ‘Rave Master’ an …
“Silver white hair, eyes of the deep young sea…’
The mystery underlying the true identities of the Children of Béfort is at last revealed in this volume. But before that, the action moves to explore…
“I have a tendency to attract mushi…the wandering life suits me.” But how did Ginko become a Mushi-master? And is he happy to spend his life constantly on the road? This volume provides some answers…
Mysterious black-clad, white-haired children who have been sighted again and again over five hundred years; a lonely orphan girl who constantly draws the same picture of an unearthly landscape;…
The search for the Key of the Twilight continues, with Ovan’s Twilight Brigade pitted against TaN. It seems, Ovan tells his followers, that there are Virus Cores to be found in the Lost Grounds …
It’s the final volume of the Tokyo arc and the title ‘Full Circle’ is apt in more ways than one, for not only does it refer to the direction that the main characters’ lives are taking …
An inferno of burning cherry blossoms in a public park, a white wolf, and murderous bandits from a past age; these are just some of the dangers that Hikaru must face in her quest to find her older brother…
“It is not the sword that will change the world. It is words.”
In the opening titles, we see first Saint Germain, then Robespierre writing words of power on thin air. And the words ‘revolution’ and…
The thirteenth episodes of ‘tactics’ ended on an ominous note as the sinister Raiko Minamoto revealed his plan to break the pact between exorcist and folklorist Kantaro and his companion Haruka…
The World R:2 is a newer and improved version of the MMORPG featured in the TV anime series ‘.hack//sign’ which was notable for its wonderful score by Yuki Kajiura. New series ‘.hack//roots’ plunges…
‘They have existed since the dawn of time. Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. Shortly after life emerged …
Hot on the heels of ‘The Anime Encyclopedia’ comes this comprehensive guide to manga (in translation). Its author and compiler, Jason Thompson, is singularly well-qualified for the task, having…
‘France will change. It must change!’
The opening words of Volume 2 are full of foreboding: it’s Holy Week and D’Eon and his friends are on the trail of the Russian fur merchant Vorontsov whom they…
The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 (Revised & Expanded Edition) Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy 2007 Titan Books 896 pp £19.99
This is one book that no …
Every once in a while an anime TV series comes along that manages to sustain and develop a terrific and involving story over many episodes; ‘Fullmetal’ Alchemist is one of those rare treats. Each…
