It’s hard to believe we’re halfway through Witch Hunter Robin already. Still, twelve episodes in and the series is showing no signs of slowing down. Once again plunging the viewer…
As winter approaches Rakka falls into the depths of despair. Grieving the loss of her friend Kuu and terrified of the prospect of living out her life as a sin-bound, she ventures into the Western…
Goro Taniguchi’s Planetes is one of the strangest anime series to have been produced in recent years. Of course a futuristic space setting is nothing new, but a story about garbage men is…
One of the few anime films to make it into UK cinemas, Howl’s Moving Castle tells the tale of Sophie, a young woman working at her family’s hat shop. Despite not having a great deal of…
If there’s one thing that Manga Entertainment excels at it is releasing old fan favourites at a value for money price: Robotech is another title that can be added to this list. A made-for-Western-TV…
I’ve tried to enjoy Stratos4, I really have, all the ingredients for a terrific series are there, bubbly characters, a better than average plot and appealing if basic animation. Unfortunately…
Shinichiro Watanabe’s highly touted follow up to Cowboy Bebop, a series regarded by many as the zenith of modish, anime science fiction, has finally arrived on our shores. This time round…
When high school student Haru saves a strange-looking cat from being run over by a truck she is understandably surprised when it turns out that it can talk. After voicing its thanks the cat promises…
Considered by many to be Hayao Miyazaki’s life work, “Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind” is a fantastic film. Mixing up his now famous themes of crimes against nature with a bleak…
After a distressingly mediocre start, I was cautiously optimistic that Gad Guard would pick up a little in its second volume, but sadly, these next four episodes are more of the same- and by now …
Far off in the future, in an era dominated by hulking cyborgs and genetically spliced human clones (the preferred term is “bioroids”), mankind’s suicidal attraction to …
As the final episodes of Arumi and Saashi’s manic journey draw to a close their disagreement as to whether they should return to their home world manifests itself in the most dramatic possible…
Najica Hiiragi is famed throughout Japan as a top perfume designer for CRI- but what only a handful of people know is that she also works for them in another capacity- as a secret agent. When she’s…
It’s easy to see how Yoshiyuki Tomino created a benchmark for Japanese animation with Mobile Suit Gundam. Strip away everything that Gundam is now famous for; namely its imaginative giant…
Taking Place in one of Gundam’s many Alternative Universes (or the AU era) during the Correct Century, year 2345, Turn A Gundam chronicles the lives of three Moonrace teenagers, the silver…
If like me, you grew up in the halcyon days of the 1980s, the chances are that you were exposed to the Transformers; a popular children’s cartoon series about warring transforming robots.…
If any director’s work deserves a blind buy, it’s Katsuhiro Otomo; the man who arguably brought Japanese animation to serious Western attention with his 1988 cyber-punk thriller…
Despite having finally reached Earth at the expense of hundreds of lives, anyone who thought times would be easier for the crew of the Archangel is sorely mistaken. They have landed smack-bang…
Despite mixing the familiar “steal from the rich, give to the poor” morality of classic medieval fable Robin Hood with X-Men’s “mutant outcasts with special powers”,…
Based on the first two instalments of the videogame series of the same name, Arc the Lad follows the adventures of Elk, a young bounty hunter gifted with the power of Flame. Despite his relative …
