Anime Review

Anime Review

Samurai Deeper KYO Volume 1

“You heard it too, didn’t you? The voice of the wind…”

1600 AD. A fog-shrouded battlefield…the distant cries of dying men…and as the swirling fog parts, two samurai warriors are revealed,…

• 31st August 2009
Anime Review

Tamagotchi: The Movie

I may be a fully grown man that has just finished watching a movie aimed at kids but please save your pity for another time, this review was for king and country – or maybe just the simple fact…

• 25th August 2009
Anime Review

Gurren Lagann Volume 1

Gurren Lagann is not the best anime ever made.

There, I’ve said it.

On the surface, Gurren Lagann isn’t even particularly original. Go Nagai was doing “Over the top manly super…

• 16th August 2009
Anime Review

Blue Dragon Volume 3

Young Shu – whose dream in life is to become a Knight Master – has left his village to travel with Zola, a female Shadow Wielder, and her apprentice Jiro, in her quest to defeat the evil tyrant Nene.…

• 3rd August 2009
Manga Review

Parasyte Volume 5

Hitoshi Iwaaki continues to impress in this next volume of ‘parasyte’ by continuing to plunge his protagonist into a series of devilishly drawn out duels with human and Parasyte…

• 12th July 2009
Anime Review

Panda! Go Panda!: Panda Kopanda

Panda! Go Panda!

Mimiko is an orphaned girl with a perpetual pantyshot, and as our story starts her grandmother must to go away to attend her grandfather’s memorial service. Why this is …

• 4th July 2009
Manga Review

Parasyte Volume 4

This review will contain spoilers of a salient kind! Do not read any further if you do not wish to know them!

It feels really good to be coming back, after some time, to review the fourth volume of ‘Parasyte’.…

• 28th June 2009
Manga Review

Genshiken Offical Book

Summary

ATTENTION HARDCORE GENSHIKEN FANS!

Now available for your exclusive pleasure: the ultimate sourcebook for the ultimate fans of the nine-volume, smash hit manga series. The Genshiken…

• 21st June 2009
Anime Review

xxxHolic Volume 2

High school student Kimihiro Watanuki has been working part-time for Yuko Ichihara for a while now and, as he carries out his daily chores, cleaning her mysterious shop and preparing her meals,…

• 31st May 2009
Anime Review

Starship Operators Volume 1

“Reality TV” Ron Simon, an American Television Studies academic, says “could be posited as the first post-modern genre, where nothing-identity, lifestyle, or relationships-is fixed; everything…

• 16th May 2009
Anime Review

Mushishi Volume 6

“Living in the darkness and still being able to remember the light – I don’t think that’s a bad thing at all.”

And so the last four stories of Ginko, the travelling Mushi-master, weave their subtle…

• 4th May 2009
Anime Review

Vexille

‘Vexille’ is one of a number of anime being produced with CGI as opposed to conventional cell drawn animation and is a scrumptious example of what exactly can be done with CG animation.…

• 22nd April 2009
Manga Review

Alive: The Final Evolution Volume 5

Chapters #16 – #19 of Alive: The Final Evolution are presented here in volume #5.  Thus far, Del Rey’s supernatural/sci-fi series has had its highs and lows.  It is not very original, and its post-apocalyptic…

• 15th April 2009
Anime Review

xxxHolic Volume 1

“There is no such thing as coincidence. There is only inevitability.”

Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student with a big problem. Spirits – usually unpleasant ones – are attracted to him. They…

• 15th April 2009