I have a soft spot for Naruto, which is one of the most popular anime series with some great action and a particular charm that won me over. Now that the first series is almost at an end, can these episodes…
It’s quite amazing how such a simple item can have multiple different references and meanings. Dolls are commonly associated with innocence; being a girl’s play thing during pretend tea time,…
Variations on the theme of the inevitability of destiny…
It’s a little unfortunate that ‘Wish,’ the first episode on this disc, is basically a resume of what’s gone before, as first Kakyo…
As Prince Montague’s reign of terror intensifies, Juliet and Romeo find their paths constantly crossing. With his friend Benvolio gone, Romeo is becoming increasingly isolated at his father’s…
“There must be something wrong with me – I’m giving advice to a person I want to kill.” Archer to Shirou Emiya
Beneath a moonlit sky, Saber confronts the swordsman guarding Ryudou Temple. He reveals…
“The truth is there’s no way for everyone to be…happy.” Subaru Sumeragi
The theme of the granting of wishes runs through CLAMP’s work like a recurrent melody (see Yuko’s shop in ‘xxxHolic’) and…
“I’m just gonna check this out; it’s probably nothing…” Shirou Emiya
Relations between unwilling Master, Shirou Emiya, and his Servant, the warrior maiden Saber, are distinctly strained. …
‘Is this truly a love that can never be?’
The aerial city of Neo Verona is governed by the harsh Lord Montague; his carabinieri bully and persecute the citizens, while the nobles enjoy a life of …
Two shadowy figures are engaged in a violent battle as an inferno rages through the centre of a city far below. A young boy wanders through rain-soaked devastation; the last thing he sees before…
Bleach Season 3 Part 02 Episodes 54-63
‘Taking On the Afterlife, One Soul At a Time’
As episode 54 begins, it looks as if all Ichigo’s efforts will have been for nothing. Rukia’s execution…
“The future has not been determined yet…”
A young man in a long white coat is on a train journey. Alighting at a small country station, he walks past red-clad shrine statues. No one else is about. …
First, a warning. This review contains a couple of major spoilers for the *first* volume of Gurren Lagann because, well, I don’t see how I could possibly review this volume without doing…
Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!
I really should have taken detailed notes when watching these seven episodes. Because, having complained that the previous disc left viewers with too many unanswered…
An apocalyptic battle is fated to take place in contemporary Tokyo between the Dragons of Heaven (the Seven Seals who have been born to protect the Earth) and the Dragons of Earth (the Seven Angels…
‘Two Choices. Two Sides. One Future. X’
Kakyo is a dream seer. Too ill to leave his bed, the young man is forced to lie still, attached by tubes and wires to the machines that keep him alive. He lives…
“What’s going on? Somebody tell me!”
Yuya’s cry of confusion at the start of episode 13 just about sums up how I feel after watching Volume 2 of ‘Samurai Deeper…
Blue Dragon: Volumes 5 & 6
Re-awaken your inner ten-year-old!
(Beware; there may be a couple of spoilers…)
Shu and his fellow Shadow Wielders are on the trail of the thief who stole the Extra…
Haruhi Fujioka has won a scholarship to the prestigious Ouran Academy. Studious and self-effacing, her accidental breaking of a priceless vase has led to her masquerading as a boy and becoming…
Dororo is based on the comic by manga grandaddy, Osamu Tezuka, and even though I’m becoming more familiar with his work recently (Buddha, Black Jack, Metropolis, Astro Boy) the original…
“You heard it too, didn’t you? The voice of the wind…”
1600 AD. A fog-shrouded battlefield…the distant cries of dying men…and as the swirling fog parts, two samurai warriors are revealed,…
