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

Castle Mango Volume 1

“A love hotel is a place to nurture love…and love wins against all odds.” Toshio Shirosaki.

High school student Yorozu Shirosaki helps his mother run the gloriously kitsch…

• 25th July 2012
Features

New Manga from Kodansha US 2011-12

When Kodansha Comics announced in 2010 that they would be taking over several of the titles already licensed to Del Rey in the US – and introducing many new series in 2011 – the news elicited…

• 2nd April 2012
Anime Review

Bleach Volume 16

Bleach Season 8 Part 1 The Arrancar 2: The Fierce Fight

Episodes 152-159

Ichigo and his companions were forced to split up as they fought their way into Las Noches to set Orihime free from Aizen’s…

• 19th March 2012
Anime Review

Fairy Tail Volume 1

Fairy Tail #1 Episodes 1-12

 “In a land far, far away…”

Lucy Heartfilia is a young, pretty, and independent-minded Celestial Wizard who wants to join a guild so that she can earn her living by practising…

• 20th February 2012
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