I may be a fully grown man that has just finished watching a movie aimed at kids but please save your pity for another time, this review was for king and country – or maybe just the simple fact…
Gurren Lagann is not the best anime ever made.
There, I’ve said it.
On the surface, Gurren Lagann isn’t even particularly original. Go Nagai was doing “Over the top manly super…
Young Shu – whose dream in life is to become a Knight Master – has left his village to travel with Zola, a female Shadow Wielder, and her apprentice Jiro, in her quest to defeat the evil tyrant Nene.…
‘Maybe you’re my love?’
Studious Haruhi Fujioka has won a scholarship to the prestigious Ouran Academy which caters for the sons and daughters of the elite families in Japan. Desperately searching…
Panda! Go Panda!
Mimiko is an orphaned girl with a perpetual pantyshot, and as our story starts her grandmother must to go away to attend her grandfather’s memorial service. Why this is …
‘Long ago, a great battle raged between the forces of Light and Darkness, with each side possessing great strengths, the mightiest of all being the power of Shadow. During the battle, the Seven…
High school student Kimihiro Watanuki has been working part-time for Yuko Ichihara for a while now and, as he carries out his daily chores, cleaning her mysterious shop and preparing her meals,…
“Listen, I know a real champion of justice. He never ran away… He fought against evil all by himself. He was my best friend…”
It is the summer of 1969, and young Kenji Endo…
“Reality TV” Ron Simon, an American Television Studies academic, says “could be posited as the first post-modern genre, where nothing-identity, lifestyle, or relationships-is fixed; everything…
“Living in the darkness and still being able to remember the light – I don’t think that’s a bad thing at all.”
And so the last four stories of Ginko, the travelling Mushi-master, weave their subtle…
‘Vexille’ is one of a number of anime being produced with CGI as opposed to conventional cell drawn animation and is a scrumptious example of what exactly can be done with CG animation.…
“There is no such thing as coincidence. There is only inevitability.”
Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student with a big problem. Spirits – usually unpleasant ones – are attracted to him. They…
“Human beings are truly disgusting creatures.” Rem (shinigami)
Top student Light Yagami has given up the Death Note and, as a consequence, he no longer remembers that he was Kira, the ‘righteous’…
Bleach is liked, by the majority of those who like it, I would imagine, for its successful underlying formula (which is equally apparent in Naruto); moving almost haphazardly between scenes …
Black Cat’s penultimate volume sees Train and his fellow sweepers make the final confrontation with Creed and the Apostles of the Stars. The upcoming battle becomes more complicated …
Love – the one force that simply won’t be denied.
Young singer Shuichi Shindou’s hopes and dreams//aspirations are constantly being raised higher – only to be cruelly dashed. Just as his group…
Tsunade, anxious over the question of whether to acquiesce to Orochimaru’s bargain or not (and equally torn over whether to become the next Hokage), here becomes centripetal in the early…
Bringing yet another series of episodes – one arc in the story – to a close, and laying the groundwork for the next, volume 4.1 exhibits the lull between action scenes and storytelling…
Love – the one force that simply won’t be denied.
Shuichi Shindo, the pink-haired vocalist of the up-and-coming band Bad Luck, has fallen in love with Eiri Yuki, the charismatic but cold-hearted…
When Light Yagami wins a place at a top university, he is surprised to find that the fellow top-scoring student chosen to give the opening address is the same shambling, unkempt young man he noticed…
