Anime Review
Sword Art Online II Volume 1
Warning: may contain spoilers.
“Happiness is a warm gun Happiness is a warm gun, mama When I hold you in my arms And I feel my finger on your trigger I know nobody can do me no harm” –…
009 Re:Cyborg
All across the world, unnamed terrorists have been destroying skyscrapers and causing death on an unimaginable scale. Seventeen-year-old Joe Shimamura, influenced by ‘His Voice’, is about…
A Certain Magical Index
“The Lord said to my Lord, Sit in honour at my right hand until I humble your enemies beneath your feet.” – Matthew 22:44.
In the futuristic Academy City, studies are taking …
Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea Volume 2
“Hikari’s eyes suddenly froze with overwhelming sadness…like a lull in the sea.” Miuna
Warning: spoilers
Five years have passed since the people of the Sea Village, Shioshishio, went…
Love Live! School Idol Project
“I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.” – Virgil Thomson …
Knights of Sidonia
“What is it that haunts space where matter is found?” – Arthur Eddington.
The year is 3394 A.D. A thousand years have passed since a race of gigantic aliens known as the Gauna…
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso.
Yuta Togashi is an ordinary schoolboy – or at least he is now. He used to be a “chunibyo”, which literally…
Space Dandy 2
‘Space Dandy! He’s a dandy guy… in space.’
Searching for rare aliens in the vastness of space, on his spaceship the Aloha Oe, the cooler than cool Dandy and his two sidekicks Meow the Betelgeusian…
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Volume 1
Ever had a show really toy with your expectations? As in, your preconceptions of it got dragged one way, then another, and then in a different direction altogether when you actually saw it?
This…
Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea Volume 1
“No good will come of you going up to the surface.” Lord Uroko.
For years without number, the people of the land have co-existed – uneasily – with the people of the sea, their neighbours…
Captain Earth Volume 1
‘When I opened the door called truth, my childhood ended. It was a summer I could never forget.’
High school student Daichi returns to Tanegashima Island (where his father died working for the …
One Piece Volume 11
Episodes 255-275, may contain spoilers.
“And I think it’s gonna be a long long time Till touch down brings me round again to find I’m not the man they think I am at home Oh no no …
Dragon Ball Z Kai Volume 1
Episodes 1-26
Earth is in danger. A brutal alien warrior – with a tail! – arrives, searching for his brother, Kakarot. He has a scouter device which enables him to seek out Earth’s strongest warriors…
Amnesia
Amnesia may be a rare occurrence in the real world but in fiction it’s a common trope inflicted either on the main character or sometimes the love interest. It’s exploited to achieve several goals…
Bleach: The Lost Agent Part 1
Episodes 343-354
Over a year has passed since Ichigo lost his powers and he and his friends are doing the usual things seventeen-year-old high school kids do: part-time jobs; mooching around;…
Familiar of Zero 3: Rondo of Princesses
Saito Hiraga, the young Japanese school student magically summoned to the country of Tristain to be the familiar of Void Magic User Louise de la Vallière etc. etc. is rather puzzled. He died at …
Samurai Bride
It’s been many months since Muneakira Yagyu and his Master Samurai girls defeated the great evil Gisen; now he’s back from his journey of training and longs to see how his dojo is doing. But in his…
Tiger & Bunny: The Rising
The annual Justice Day festival is about to take place in Stern Bild City, commemorating the legend of the city’s origins and the terrible punishment meted out to the first inhabitants by the goddess…
Bleach: The Invading Army Part 2
Episodes 330-342
Green-haired Nozomi has been abducted and taken back to the Soul Society by Kagerosa, the mastermind who has created the Reigai doubles of the Soul Reaper officers to bring …