Anime Review

Anime Review

Mayo Chiki!

“I love those decadent wenches who do so trouble my dreams.” – Rembrandt.

There are plenty of fan-service filled anime out there, most of which vary in quality. If you are making an…

• 14th May 2013
Anime Review

Penguindrum Volume 1

“Listen, you lowlifes, who will never amount to anything…”

Penguindrum is directed and co-written by Kunihiko Ikuhara, who is best known for his work on Sailor Moon and creating…

• 12th May 2013
Anime Review

Fractale

Clain (Yu Kobayashi/Brina Palencia), a young teenaged boy, lives in a cottage on the edge of the cliff overlooking the sea, with his dog, his mother and father. Correction: with the virtual doppels…

• 6th May 2013
Anime Review

Tiger & Bunny Volume 2

Tiger & Bunny Episodes 8 – 13

‘Do we really need heroes???’ (Newsfeed Stern Bild City)

As the sinister and grotesque Lunatic continues to pose a real threat to the Heroes,…

• 30th April 2013
Anime Review

Ga-Rei Zero

“I do not believe in ghosts, astrology, palmistry, John Cage, love or God.” – Gore Vidal.

The supernatural anime series Ga-Rei Zero has a few problems facing it. For starters there…

• 25th April 2013
Anime Review

King of Thorn

“Botany is a sequel of murder and a chronicle of the dead.” – Julian Hawthorne.

One keen aspect for British anime fans concerning this film is that it is mostly set in a castle in Scotland.…

• 22nd April 2013
Anime Review

Vampire Princess Miyu

Princess Miyu is a vampire chosen to act as Guardian of the Eastern World with the task of tracking down shinma (demon gods) hiding in contemporary Japan to prey on mortals. Aided by Larva, her eternal…

• 19th April 2013
Anime Review

Loups=Garous

Japan, mid-21st century. Following a deadly virus, most of humanity avoids physical contact, carries iPod-like “monitors” that control their lives and eats synthetic food provided…

• 18th April 2013
Anime Review

Persona 4: The Animation Volume 2

Episodes 10-17

Can Yu and friends save teen idol Rise from herself as she is the next one to be pushed into the TV screen and appear on the sinister Midnight Channel? Naoto Shiragane (Romi Park/Mary…

• 28th March 2013
Anime Review

Dream Eater Merry

Dream Eater Merry has left me in the middle. I don’t know if I either liked or disliked it; it felt like one of those shows that has potential but loses it by the last episode. Its flaws range…

• 18th March 2013
Anime Review

Needless Volume 2

“…and with the bowels of the last priest let us strangle the last king.” – Denis Diderot.

When I reviewed the first half of this series, I wrote that it provoked a range…

• 16th February 2013
Anime Review

Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts

You have to feel sorry for the students of Class 2-F at Fumizuki Academy. The losers in the educational experiment (or ESB) promoted by the principal, they have to put up with the worst educational…

• 11th February 2013