Najica Hiiragi is famed throughout Japan as a top perfume designer for CRI- but what only a handful of people know is that she also works for them in another capacity- as a secret agent. When she’s…
It’s easy to see how Yoshiyuki Tomino created a benchmark for Japanese animation with Mobile Suit Gundam. Strip away everything that Gundam is now famous for; namely its imaginative giant…
Taking Place in one of Gundam’s many Alternative Universes (or the AU era) during the Correct Century, year 2345, Turn A Gundam chronicles the lives of three Moonrace teenagers, the silver…
If like me, you grew up in the halcyon days of the 1980s, the chances are that you were exposed to the Transformers; a popular children’s cartoon series about warring transforming robots.…
If any director’s work deserves a blind buy, it’s Katsuhiro Otomo; the man who arguably brought Japanese animation to serious Western attention with his 1988 cyber-punk thriller…
Despite having finally reached Earth at the expense of hundreds of lives, anyone who thought times would be easier for the crew of the Archangel is sorely mistaken. They have landed smack-bang…
Despite mixing the familiar “steal from the rich, give to the poor” morality of classic medieval fable Robin Hood with X-Men’s “mutant outcasts with special powers”,…
Based on the first two instalments of the videogame series of the same name, Arc the Lad follows the adventures of Elk, a young bounty hunter gifted with the power of Flame. Despite his relative …
In the not-so-distant future, Earth has become a post apocalyptic wasteland. In isolated towns and villages, people struggle to rebuild, only to have their efforts constantly destroyed or …
I’m now 10 episodes into Gundam SEED and my expectations are starting to balance off. Comparisons with the original Gundam series are warranted, but beyond basic plot similarities, SEED…
D.N.Angel is a title that made quite a splash on the manga scene when it was released through Tokyopop late last year. ADV solicited the anime almost straightaway, yet it failed to attract the same…
Continuing its epic struggle across the desolate universe, we follow the rag-tag crew of the White Base (a.k.a. the Trojan Horse) as it’s trailed over land, sea and space by the mysterious…
The Big O has built up a frightening reputation since it’s inception in 1999, a quick glance at the staff list and it’s not hard to see why, the brainchild of Hajime Yatate, the creative…
For a series as revered in the science fiction genre as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, I feel somewhat unsettled to suggest that what pushes my enthusiasm for this show beyond anime of …
We all knew it had to end this way, but that doesn’t make it any less tragic. It’s a testament to the superior writing of Cowboy Bebop that when the poetic conclusion of this fine series…
During its first volume, we made a pact with Gungrave; I was sceptical about the generic supernatural elements seen the in the first episode, but soon forgot my complaints as the story switched…
A bleak yet beautiful series, Texhnolyze is every bit as hard boiled and gritty as you should expect from glancing at the moody artwork and grotesque futuristic imagery.This is a wonderfully …
The third volume of the Mini Goddess series is subtitled The Urd Files and as such focuses a little more on the eldest of the three Goddesses who shrink themselves to super-cute size and get themselves…
Three years have passed since the events of the Nadesico TV series, and the war with the Jovians is long over. Teen prodigy and former science officer Ruri Hoshino is now captain of the Nadesico …
A thousand years after a global catastrophe known as the Seven Days of Fire ravaged the surface of the earth, the remaining members of the human race cling to life on the fringes of an enormous toxic…
