“I have a tendency to attract mushi…the wandering life suits me.” But how did Ginko become a Mushi-master? And is he happy to spend his life constantly on the road? This volume provides some answers…
Mysterious black-clad, white-haired children who have been sighted again and again over five hundred years; a lonely orphan girl who constantly draws the same picture of an unearthly landscape;…
Concluding the first series of one of the biggest anime in years, Bleach 1:2 runs right on from the precedent set in the first volume, seeing the resolution to Ichigo’s conflict with classmate…
Bleach is the latest in animes most prolific genre – the shonen – which typically means action and a touch of comedy to keep things light, but which, in the tradition of the Dragonball…
The relationship between Renton and Eureka runs into more problems while Norb, the Voderac priest, offers important insights into the Coralians and how their existence is tied to humans and …
When it comes to reviewing anime, one of the most frustrating tasks can be screen-capping. Sometimes you’ll remember the cool scenes, jump straight in and snap away. Job done. But with FLCL, it’s…
A run-in with an immortal demon-warrior named Zodd, an assault on a strategically significant fortress and underhand court politics present both problems and opportunities for Guts, Griffith…
A striking aspect of watching Eureka Seven is that you come to expect the unexpected. As enjoyable as I find the aerial combat and edge-of-the-seat tension to be, it has a complexity of writing …
A narrative prologue that plays before the opening theme in each episode does a pretty good job of summarising the essential story of Witchblade; an ancient weapon sought for all time, but capable…
Naruto: The Lost Story is an interesting case of anime coming out in the UK before it does anywhere else in America. Unfortunately, it isn’t an epic or even a great movie, let alone much to …
Amidst all the furore surrounding Geneon’s uncertain future there were several new titles that I feared would never make it to UK shelves; one of those was Black Lagoon. It’s fair…
The search for the Key of the Twilight continues, with Ovan’s Twilight Brigade pitted against TaN. It seems, Ovan tells his followers, that there are Virus Cores to be found in the Lost Grounds …
Keeping up its drive to deliver more episodes on less discs, Beez offers up the final volume of IGPX, like many of its first and last entries into recent series, with five rather than the standard…
This volume begins with Team Satomi in the midst of their race with Team Velshtein, and as ever, protagonist and forward, Takeshi, is called upon to pull his own weight and that of the team (like …
Being a huge fan of Ursula Le Guin’s original novels, I was really looking forward to seeing how Studio Ghibli brought her world of Earthsea to the screen. In an unusual situation regarding licence…
It’s the final volume of the Tokyo arc and the title ‘Full Circle’ is apt in more ways than one, for not only does it refer to the direction that the main characters’ lives are taking …
An inferno of burning cherry blossoms in a public park, a white wolf, and murderous bandits from a past age; these are just some of the dangers that Hikaru must face in her quest to find her older brother…
“It is not the sword that will change the world. It is words.”
In the opening titles, we see first Saint Germain, then Robespierre writing words of power on thin air. And the words ‘revolution’ and…
I don’t know whether I’d be speaking too harshly of Golgo 13: The Professional in saying how bad it is. Make no mistake, it IS bad, but the fact that it’s a quarter of a century …
Take a sullen protagonist with a tragic past, a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, a gun-toting girl in a kimono, a master thief with a trick or two up her sleeve and a timid girl with a terrifying secret…and…
