Anime Review

Anime Review

Gatchaman Crowds

“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 …

• 27th April 2015
Anime Review

Harlock Space Pirate

“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…

• 26th April 2015
Anime Review

The Diary of Ochibi

“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.…

• 24th April 2015
Anime Review

The Ambition of Oda Nobuna

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…

• 15th April 2015
Anime Review

Log Horizon Volume 1

“Everybody has got to die, but I’ve always believed an exception would be made in my case.” – William Saroyan. 

Anime set in the world of gaming have been popular recently,…

• 13th April 2015
Anime Review

One Piece Volume 9

Episodes 206-229, may contain spoilers.

“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be one or the other.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.…

• 11th April 2015
Anime Review

Bleach: Fall of the Arrancar 2

Episodes 304-316

Spoilers! (Well, what did you expect…? It’s The Big Confrontation)

After two more filler episodes celebrating Bleach’s 10th Anniversary (which is, after all, something…

• 5th April 2015
Anime Review

Yu-Gi-Oh! Volume 2

“Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.” – Charles Fort

This second season…

• 29th March 2015
Anime Review

Onimonogatari: DVD review

Onimonogatari is the fourth arc in Monogatari Second Season and is focused this time on Araragi’s blonde vampire companion. This arc is one of the shorter ones with only four episodes …

• 25th March 2015
Anime Review

Appleseed Alpha

Look – I’ll level with you. the part of reviewing anime that I hate most is summarizing storylines. I just hate it. I mean, what’s the point? If you’re already interested…

• 23rd March 2015
Anime Review

Ben-To

From all the fan-service shows I’ve watched as a reviewer, I’m considering Ben-To as one of the best ones I’ve seen and there are several reasons why. It might not be an instant classic, …

• 21st March 2015
Anime Review

Kill la Kill Volume 2

Warning: may contain spoilers.

“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.” – Jack Nicholson.

Continuing on from the first collection, we witness more…

• 17th March 2015
Anime Review

Good Luck Girl!

Ichiko Sakura is only 16 years old but already has everything going for her: she does very well at school, is admired by all the boys there, she’s very wealthy, and has the most magnificent boobs.…

• 15th March 2015
Anime Review

Broken Blade

Science fantasy mecha shows honestly aren’t as common as you might expect. When looking across the genre as a whole, just what notable titles stand out? Escaflowne, no doubt. Aura Battler…

• 8th March 2015
Anime Review

tsuritama

“There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot.” – Steven Wright. 

With reference to the above quote, here is an anime that deals…

• 3rd March 2015