Anime Review

Anime Review

Tenchi Muyo! Mihoshi Special

Galaxy Police Detective Mihoshi is well known for her tendency to eat and sleep all day, but in an attempt to show Tenchi and the girls that she actually does have some measure of competency, Mihoshi…

• 28th November 2005
Anime Review

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

2005 marks the year that I discovered Yoshiyuki Tomino’s fabled Mobile Suit Gundam; it is rare to find a space opera with a story as far reaching as this, with characters, cultures and technologies…

• 26th November 2005
Anime Review

.hack// Legend Of The Twilight

Four years have passed since the events of the .hack videogames, and the MMORPG “The World” has long since become a far more stable and peaceful place- not to mention the fact that it is now more popular…

• 24th November 2005
Anime Review

Gunsmith Cats: Bulletproof

Rally Vincent and Minnie May Hopkins are the Gunsmith Cats whose day job running a gun shop in Chicago acts as cover for their real roles, fearsome bounty hunters who will take on any job for the right…

• 23rd November 2005
Anime Review

Last Exile Volume 6

The last volume of Last Exile saw the Silvana and Urbanus about to successfully capture Exile, but the arrival of a Guild starfish on the deck of the Silvana indicated that things had not gone quite…

• 19th November 2005
Anime Review

Last Exile Volume 5

We’re well into the second half of Last Exile now, and it’s about time to start thinking of the series’ inevitable conclusion. To that end, the main objective of this instalment…

• 17th November 2005
Anime Review

X

When fifteen year old Kamui Shiro returns to Tokyo after a six year absence, he has just one goal in mind- fulfilling a promise to protect his childhood friends Fuma and Kotori. Much as he would like…

• 17th November 2005
Anime Review

Mobile Suit Gundam F91

Regardless of how long you’ve been an anime fan I daresay you will have come across Mobile Suit Gundam in ones of its many incarnations at one time or another. Widely regarded as Japan’s…

• 12th November 2005
Anime Review

Gungrave Volume 4

If there is a volume that encapsulates everything that makes Gungrave such a fine series, it is this one. This is Brandon Heat’s tragic closing night, the promised implosion of friendship…

• 9th November 2005
Anime Review

Millennium Actress

As part of a film studio’s seventieth anniversary, film maker Genya Tachibana travels to interview one of his idols: the retired actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has lived as a recluse since…

• 9th November 2005
Anime Review

Outlaw Star

On the planet Sentinel III, Gene Starwind and his young partner Jim Hawking run the creatively titled “Starwind and Hawking Enterprises”, a small business that handles any job …

• 6th November 2005
Anime Review

Paranoia Agent Volume 2

So where to start with reviewing Paranoia Agent #2? This is not the kind of series that lends itself well to brief critical appraisal- to simply class this is a “mind bending” thriller…

• 3rd November 2005
Anime Review

R.O.D.: the TV Volume 3

The three Paper Sisters are sent out on another assignment by the Dokusensha to retrieve another lost book, then talk Nenene into taking them to a writers’ awards ceremony. Meanwhile, …

• 2nd November 2005
Anime Review

Castle of Cagliostro

Now that more or less all of the films produced by members of Studio Ghibli have been picked up by Optimum Releasing, it’s no surprise that they have also bought the rights to Castle of Cagliostro,…

• 1st November 2005
Anime Review

The Little Norse Prince

Set in a far-distant land in the North many centuries ago, a brave young boy by the name of Hols meets Mogue the rock giant while trying to escape from a pack of wolves. He removes a sharp object from…

• 1st November 2005