It’s already a lottery within itself to have an anime series licensed for the UK, but to have multiple versions of the same story – especially one being a translation of the original book – is rarely…
The re-released volume 4 of the Sailor Moon manga continues on from where volume 3 left off; Sailor Mars and Mercury have been captured by the new enemy known as ‘Black Moon’ and Usagi feels powerless…
Looking at the cover of the second Naruto Shippuden movie “Bonds”, showing Naruto in the light and Sasuke in the dark, gave me the impression that the plot would focus on their broken bond and force…
“The fox knows many things; the hedgehog, one big thing.” – Erasmus
Naruto is the third of the four big shonen mangas that I am reviewing the first three volumes of (the others…
“Oh, ye seekers of perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you pursued? Go and take your place with the alchemists.” – Leonardo da Vinci
In the second article in my series looking…
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to stop the man touching the equipment.” – Warren…
“Black spirits and white, red spirits and grey, mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.” – William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
For some reason, probably due to the fact …
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…
“The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” – Frank Zappa
I have wanted to read this manga for some time now for one main reason: I suffer from a disorder on the autistic…
“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering she looks like a haddock.” – John Barrymore
I must confess that I have come late to the delights …
It wouldn’t be too overdramatic if I said that when Kodansha announced that they had picked up the license for the Sailor Moon manga and would be re-releasing it in English revised with a new translation…
When Naoko Takeuchi first created Sailor Moon back in 1992, I highly doubt that she could have predicted the series’ success across the world. Often credited as popularizing and revitalizing…
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…
“One by one, the new generation will catch up to you, and in the end, they’ll surpass you,” says Kakashi to the defeated Akatsuki member Kakuzu.
Since Naruto tried out his new powerful jutsu “Rasen…
“Never lend books; no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books other people have lent me.” – Anatole France
When reading Library Wars I cannot help but make…
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” – Galileo Galilei
I myself am not a wine connoisseur. I, like most British people, look at them with a slight sense of annoyance and confusion.…
In 2004, all four single volumes of Fruit Baskets were reviewed very favourably on this site and as years went by, it became harder for me to find these single volumes that were rated so highly. Eight…
This review covers all volumes of Princess Knight.
Tezuka was not afraid to try anything. Alongside shounen, seinen, gekiga, political works, psychological, medical dramas, fantasy, and …
I have fond memories from way back in the heyday of the original Playstation. I remember popping the black-bottomed discs into Sony’s little grey box and waiting for the fun to start. The…
@ 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…
