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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Anime Review

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

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…

• 1st December 2008
Anime Review

Mushishi Volume 4

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 …

• 4th November 2008
Manga Review

Papillon Volume 1

“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…

• 17th October 2008
Anime Review

Saiyuki: Reload Volume 7

“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…

• 28th September 2008
Anime Review

Saiyuki: Reload Volume 6

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…

• 21st September 2008
Anime Review

School Rumble Volume 2

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…

• 24th August 2008
Features

Del Rey Manga: Summer 2008

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 …

• 17th August 2008
Anime Review

Death Note Volume 1

“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…

• 31st July 2008
Anime Review

Ah! My Goddess: Season 1 Box Set

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…

• 17th July 2008
Anime Review

Fantastic Children Volume 4

“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…

• 28th April 2008
Anime Review

Mushishi Volume 3

“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…

• 13th April 2008
Anime Review

Fantastic Children Volume 3

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;…

• 9th April 2008
Anime Review

.hack// Roots Volume 2

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 …

• 25th February 2008
Anime Review

Otogi Zoshi: Full Circle

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 …

• 4th February 2008
Anime Review

Otogi Zoshi: Crossing Boundaries

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…

• 20th January 2008