Anime Review

Anime Review

Spice and Wolf: Season II

Merchant Kraft Lawrence is travelling north with his unusual companion, Holo, a wolf goddess, who has taken human form as a beautiful young woman (with, of course, ears and a splendid tail.) Holo…

• 4th August 2012
Manga Review

Secretary’s Job?

Thirty-something Takase is known as the ‘Legendary Secretary’, so the company president thinks that he’s just the right man to sort out his lazy and unmotivated son Toshiaki…

• 4th August 2012
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
Manga Review

Jiu Jiu Volume 1

“When novelist Margaret Atwood asked women what they feared most from men, they said: “We’re afraid they’ll kill us.” When men were asked the same question …

• 14th July 2012
Anime Review

Dragon Ball Z Volume 1

And now, Manga Entertainment has finally done it and released Dragon Ball Z in the UK. DBZ is almost like a dream come true release for Manga’s public face, Jerome. Ever since I first met …

• 12th July 2012
Anime Review

Angel Beats!

Otanashi is dead. Well, at least that’s what he’s told by the very brash female student Yuri upon waking up on the grounds of a school with no memories of how he got there or anything of his life previously.…

• 27th June 2012
Anime Review

Black Magic M-66

Where Masamune Shirow is concerned, there’s quite often a feeling among his fans that the man can do no wrong. Fabled for his super-detailed, highly individual manga works, and beloved of not …

• 20th June 2012
Anime Review

Roujin Z

Way back in the dark and distant past (well 1994 to be exact) Roujin Z was an unusual release for (what was then) Manga Video. The smartly satirical sci-fi comedy sat oddly alongside their mostly…

• 11th June 2012
Anime Review

Clannad Volume 1

The ‘visual novel’ is one of the most successful video games genres in Japan; mostly found on PCs, the genre often involves static anime graphics mixed with text and a multi-branch story to create…

• 5th June 2012