“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we wouldn’t.” – Emerson Pugh
It is interesting to look at this series now, because…
“Remember this, Japanese boy… airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.” – Caproni, The Wind …
Rin and Yukio Okumura, twin student exorcists at the True Cross Academy, are on a mission to exorcise a Phantom Train that takes the souls of the dead beneath the city to oblivion in Gehenna. At the…
“Civilization is a youth with a Molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.” – Edward Abbey
There are many anime that could arguably…
As Naruto sees Pain defeat Hinata and proceed to stab her with one of his iron rods, Naruto suddenly goes on a rampage by beginning to unleash his NineTails power to attack Pain but it’s not…
“Two things awe me most: the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.” – Immanuel Kant.
This sixth collection of the anime adaptation of the most popular manga ever sold…
“Just as you fill your heart through good deeds, I fill my bank account with evil ones” – Kaiki
The next chapter in the Monogatari franchise, Nisemonogatari, attempts to build on the clever…
“Why have I fought so hard? What the hell was everything for?” Toshizo Hijikata
Japan is in the middle of a civil war. It’s 1868 and matters go from bad to worse for the few remaining members of the …
“Those who run to the apes to explain our behaviour are chuckle-heads too dumb to know their arse from a hole-in-the-ground.” – W. H. Auden.
When Dragon Ball Z was released …
With the conclusion of the Suruga Monkey arc at the end of the Part 1 box set, we proceed into the last two arcs in Part 2 and the end of a well-made series – but do these couple of stories make …
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.” – Garrison Keillor
This latest collection of Fairy Tail is pretty topsy-turvy. We see the strangest…
Thirteen-year-old Rikuo Nura is one quarter yōkai which means that he can only assume his powerful yōkai form, Nurarihyon, during the hours of darkness. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather,…
At the heart of Eureka Seven AO is the story of a half-alien boy, Ao Fukai, abandoned at the age of two, trying to find and save his mother. Ao, at thirteen, is now flying his mother’s mecha (or IFO) …
“Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.” – A. Whitney Brown
Manga Entertainment recently released Sword Art Online, an…
“Once is happenstance; twice is coincidence; three times is enemy action.” – Ian Fleming.
This is a TV series originating from Japan, set in 1931, which amongst other things…
“The only reason I have to fight is because I have to win!” Ichigo to Ulquiorra
Series 13 Episodes 266-278
Things don’t look too good for Orihime. Left a prisoner in Las Noches in the care of Ulquiorra…
Appleseed is a manga that ran back in the 80s which spawned an OVA and some feature films. Both films came out in the UK but the franchise never got its own full length series. In comes Appleseed XIII,…
“As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree’, probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.” – Woody Allen
The fourth and final release of SAO…
“The concepts most familiar to us are often the most mysterious.” – Etienne Klein
All the Anime’s new limited edition Blu-ray release of the popular series Durarara!!…
