Warning: contains spoilers.
“Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.” – Jani Allan.
It is the third and final…
If you’re a follower of modern Japanese culture you may have heard, or at least have seen an image of, Super Sonico. She’s a mascot for the visual novel company Nitroplus, first appearing in 2006…
“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.” – Psalms 107: 23-24.
There are many loose…
Episodes 230-252, may contain spoilers.
“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.” – John le Carre.
This latest collection of One Piece…
Saito Hiraga – once an ordinary high schooler in Japan – has been spirited away by magic to the country of Tristain and is now the familiar of Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière. This spirited…
Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates are enjoying a little down time on their ship, the Sunny, when they encounter a formidable foe. The embittered Z, once the honoured Marine Admiral Zephyr, has decided…
Episodes 1-7 (Streaming on Crunchyroll)
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman.
As in my last review…
Episodes 317-329
There’s never a dull moment for the Soul Society for substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends. No sooner have they defeated Aizen than a strange green-haired girl…
Episodes 1-7 (Streaming on Crunchyroll)
“Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.” – James A. Garfield
If the stereotypes of the Far East are anything …
Quiet, unassuming fifteen-year-old Mikado Ryugamine moves from his safe but boring countryside home to Ikebukuro, Tokyo to start high school with his old friend Masaomi Kida – and witnesses…
“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.” – George Orwell.
Continuing …
The manga series Parasyte (Hitoshi Awaaki) was launched in 1988 and concluded in 1995. Twenty years after finishing its run in afternoon magazine Parasyte was finally awarded its own anime…
“Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.”…
Chihiro Furuya is a young man obsessed with horror, especially of the zombie variety. From films to manga, and even to the girls he finds attractive, all his interests are focussed on the brain-munching…
“Bird, go!”
Tachikawa City, 2015. A boy genius, Rui Ninomiya, has created GALAX, an altruistic interactive IT system with which he hopes to change the world – for the better. The CROWDS is the …
“What is it that haunts space where matter is found?” – Arthur Eddington
Leiji Matusmoto is the creator of many great sci-fi anime of the 1970s: Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy…
“So little time, so little to do.” – Oscar Levant.
While most anime fans are used to ordinary 2D animation and perhaps some 3D CGI animation, there are few stop-motion anime.…
Remember the good old days of anime in the UK? When VHS ruled, the tabloid press railed against the crazy new thing we had discovered, and to get the really, really good stuff, you had to send away …
Episodes 1-25 (Streaming on Crunchyroll)
“I can imagine in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they’d never expect…
Present-day high-school student (and keen gamer) Yoshiharu Sagara finds himself bang in the middle of a fierce Warring States battle. A dying warlord (none other than Hideyoshi Toyotomi) begs…
