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,…
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.…
