Burning the Past
The first two volumes of ‘Otogi Zoshi’ have followed Hikaru’s adventures as she travels from clan to clan to find and bring back to the capital the precious legendary stones called…
Requiem from the Darkness is the story of Momosuke Yamaoka, a young author collecting tales of the supernatural (the majority of which he experiences first hand), to compile in his book, ‘the…
Would you use pessimism as an excuse to not change the world? Takeru does. He’s a lazy teenager who thinks that crimes and wars will always happen and there’s nothing he can do to change things, so…
With an 18 certificate and character names like Chocolate and Carrot, you should pretty much get what you expect when buying this volume of Sorcerer Hunters – a collection of three episodic…
For a series that sells itself as ‘the only anime to be set in Venezuela’, ‘Jinki:Extend’ is remarkably lacking in Venezuelan local colour. Sure, there are a couple of info dumps about table mountains…
Observing the entrapment of the half-demon InuYasha by the local hero and priestess, Kikyo, after his attempt to steal The Jewel of Four Souls, we then watch a younger girl of, remarkable resemblance…
‘Sometimes, Special Powers Are A Curse…’
Mai Tokiha and her younger brother Takumi are settling into their new life at Fuuka Academy. They have made friends, despite Mai’s discovery that…
Tenchi Muyo! The Daughter of Darkness opens with a sequence about a young Jurai prince and one of his friends playing on a hilltop, enjoying the Startica festivities held in summer on the planet…
Naruto is an adventure that requires a massive investment from its audience. As most people already know, this is a series that will played out over the course of more than two hundred episodes,…
Freshman Keiichi Morisato is not having a good day; he oversleeps, his bike won’t start, the other members of the Auto Club take advantage of his helpful nature, leaving him behind to clean…
The description ‘slice of life’ is one that often polarises opinion. For some, it is a cure for insomnia; for others, it sums up the more true-to-life approach to film making that has a charm of its…
Pan-Taron is in the driving seat again as the pilot of the Panda Z, the awe-inspiring mecha that protects his friends from Skull Panda and the Warunimal Empire.
Okay, the Panda Z isn’t quite as awe-inspiring…
Loud, noisy and obnoxious… enter the crazy world of Saiyuki Reload. Even the rocking theme tune could not prepare me for what was to follow: sunglass wearing monks, foolish assassins and incompetent…
The showdown in the bowling alley comes to a dramatic conclusion while Maya begins to recount her early days at the school with Team Katana and its leader (incidently, her brother) Shin Natsume.…
After a rather slow start Eureka Seven is quickly becoming one of my favourite UK DVD releases of the year. The storyline is well and truly in full swing in its third volume so those of us who gave it…
IGPX is the international sport of Immortal Grand Prix, a combination of racing and in-race battles popular in the lavish future societies of this anime by the same name.
The rules are as such: …
The opening of Tokko’s first volume begins with images of the mundane and the supernatural being interwoven, culminating in the presence of a bloody and rampaging demon walking the streets during…
The typical ‘reluctant hero meets desperate town in need, doesn’t care but is slowly won over by one town member, who – half for personal reasons and half for her sake – he fights for’…
Who hasn’t longed at some time for a magical and powerful companion to rescue them from the dreariness of everyday life? Kantaro Ichinomiya has dreamed since boyhood of finding and setting free…
What would you do if your future self told you that you can’t save the person you love? That’s the dilemma facing schoolboy Yuu in this time travelling, dimension hopping adventure. The doomed …
