To give you an idea of how highly I was anticipating Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack, I sat through all 50 episodes of Zeta Gundam (hardly a chore though!) just so that I could prepare…
To call Rahxephon a, summarily captivating mecha adventure, or an existential science fiction drama, would be to sell the series short, excruciatingly so. This is the kind of show that defies…
As the Archangel struggles toward the Earth Force’s Alaskan hideaway, those onboard are left to reflect on the tragic events that marred their last Battle. With Tolle dead and Kira MIA …
I have to admit that s-CRY-ed isn’t a series that hooked me straightaway, but after thoroughly enjoying the closing episode of disc 2, I found myself looking forward to seeing what volume…
Following a long and bitter worldwide war the city of Olympus is created as a Utopia: the prototype for a perfect society. Many of its citizens are “Biodroids’ (sic), clones who are…
Stepping back from the crushing brutality that so stunned unwary anime fans in its second volume (myself included!), the third instalment of the Fullmetal Alchemist saga makes for an infinitely…
It has been three years since the intelligent robot “Black King Boss” and his Andro Army came to power, taking over a significant portion of the world and enslaving much of humanity.…
In a bleak and harsh future world, wolves roam free among human beings who are struggling to survive. Few know they still exist; disguising their true appearance and living among ordinary members…
Galaxy Police Detective Mihoshi is well known for her tendency to eat and sleep all day, but in an attempt to show Tenchi and the girls that she actually does have some measure of competency, Mihoshi…
Just as it seemed Robin was finding her place and settling into life at the STN-J, a series of chilling events lead our young heroine toward an inexplicable and startling truth. Ulterior motives…
2005 marks the year that I discovered Yoshiyuki Tomino’s fabled Mobile Suit Gundam; it is rare to find a space opera with a story as far reaching as this, with characters, cultures and technologies…
Four years have passed since the events of the .hack videogames, and the MMORPG “The World” has long since become a far more stable and peaceful place- not to mention the fact that it is now more popular…
Rally Vincent and Minnie May Hopkins are the Gunsmith Cats whose day job running a gun shop in Chicago acts as cover for their real roles, fearsome bounty hunters who will take on any job for the right…
The last volume of Last Exile saw the Silvana and Urbanus about to successfully capture Exile, but the arrival of a Guild starfish on the deck of the Silvana indicated that things had not gone quite…
We’re well into the second half of Last Exile now, and it’s about time to start thinking of the series’ inevitable conclusion. To that end, the main objective of this instalment…
When fifteen year old Kamui Shiro returns to Tokyo after a six year absence, he has just one goal in mind- fulfilling a promise to protect his childhood friends Fuma and Kotori. Much as he would like…
Regardless of how long you’ve been an anime fan I daresay you will have come across Mobile Suit Gundam in ones of its many incarnations at one time or another. Widely regarded as Japan’s…
If there is a volume that encapsulates everything that makes Gungrave such a fine series, it is this one. This is Brandon Heat’s tragic closing night, the promised implosion of friendship…
As part of a film studio’s seventieth anniversary, film maker Genya Tachibana travels to interview one of his idols: the retired actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has lived as a recluse since…
With the way the previous volume ended, I could hardly wait to catch up with these final three episodes of Stand Alone Complex. Emotions were frayed, metal was twisted and I was on the edge of my seat…
