“Apapapa!” (Apachai Hopachai)
‘Weak knees’ Kenichi Shirayama is a good-natured, book-loving student with a big problem: everyone keeps picking on him. But his …
Back in the early noughties, the original Hellsing was a big hit. The 2001 TV series was a lot of fun, and overcame the occasionally wonky animation (from the notoriously occasionally wonky Studio…
The setting is idyllic. The old temple overlooks a peaceful lake and the priest’s daughter and shrine maiden, Saya Kisaragi (Nana Mizuki/Alexis Tipton) sets out singing every day on her…
“Jazz is not dead … it just smells funny.” – Frank Zappa.
MVM clearly have high hopes with this series. For starters it was only released this year so it has been a quick turnaround…
Project A-Ko is a reviewer’s nightmare. After the end credits have rolled, initial impressions have coalesced, and the infectious ’80s guitar pop of ‘Follow Your Dreams’…
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso
As a lover of manga and anime I believe that Bakuman is a must-read manga because…
Highschooler Kaito Kirishima (Nobunaga Shimazaki) is out with his 8 mm camera one night when he spots a dazzlingly bright light descending rapidly through the darkness toward him. The next thing,…
To be fair, it would be hard to top the episodes that were contained in the last box set and sadly, this twelfth box set doesn’t continue the great quality of episodes and stumbles a lot of times,…
“Music is powerless to express anything.” – Igor Stravinsky.
Liverpool gave us the Fab Four called “The Beatles”, Rutland gave us the Pre-Fab Four called “The…
“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…
Marika Kato, the sixteen-year-old schoolgirl captain of the pirate spaceship Bentenmaru, has a duty to keep her ship’s precious Letter of Marque valid by regularly performing a certain…
“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…
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…
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,…
“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…
“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.…
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…
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…
Fairytales such as Red Riding Hood and Snow White have existed for centuries, and have been retold over and over again via bedtime stories to our children and modern storytelling mediums such …
Rikuo Nura, a bespectacled, good-natured twelve-year-old, attends school like other boys his age. But when he goes home… he’s welcomed by the many yokai (demons) who are the members…
