“What luck for rulers that men do not think.” – Adolf Hitler.
Osamu Tezuka may be better known for his children’s work, especially Astro Boy, but this thrilling historical…
Thirty-something Takase is known as the ‘Legendary Secretary’, so the company president thinks that he’s just the right man to sort out his lazy and unmotivated son Toshiaki…
“A love hotel is a place to nurture love…and love wins against all odds.” Toshio Shirosaki.
High school student Yorozu Shirosaki helps his mother run the gloriously kitsch…
“The stars are majestic laboratories, gigantic crucibles, such as no chemist could dream.” – Henri Poincaré
Based on a series of computer games created by honeybee, this…
“When novelist Margaret Atwood asked women what they feared most from men, they said: “We’re afraid they’ll kill us.” When men were asked the same question …
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and we cannot live in.” – James Baldwin
So, all good things must come to an end and this is no exception.
There are several problems…
This review will contain spoilers for the first omnibus.
Hikaru, Fuu and Umi have never been the same since their trip to Tokyo Tower. To their friends and family the girls have suddenly become …
“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.” – Thomas Hardy.
If you are into your anime and manga then you will no doubt have come across…
“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.” – The Bible, Book of Psalms 107:23-24.
One…
The re-released volume 4 of the Sailor Moon manga continues on from where volume 3 left off; Sailor Mars and Mercury have been captured by the new enemy known as ‘Black Moon’ and Usagi feels powerless…
“The fox knows many things; the hedgehog, one big thing.” – Erasmus
Naruto is the third of the four big shonen mangas that I am reviewing the first three volumes of (the others…
“Oh, ye seekers of perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you pursued? Go and take your place with the alchemists.” – Leonardo da Vinci
In the second article in my series looking…
“Black spirits and white, red spirits and grey, mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.” – William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
For some reason, probably due to the fact …
“The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” – Frank Zappa
I have wanted to read this manga for some time now for one main reason: I suffer from a disorder on the autistic…
“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering she looks like a haddock.” – John Barrymore
I must confess that I have come late to the delights …
It wouldn’t be too overdramatic if I said that when Kodansha announced that they had picked up the license for the Sailor Moon manga and would be re-releasing it in English revised with a new translation…
When Naoko Takeuchi first created Sailor Moon back in 1992, I highly doubt that she could have predicted the series’ success across the world. Often credited as popularizing and revitalizing…
“Never lend books; no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books other people have lent me.” – Anatole France
When reading Library Wars I cannot help but make…
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” – Galileo Galilei
I myself am not a wine connoisseur. I, like most British people, look at them with a slight sense of annoyance and confusion.…
This review covers all volumes of Princess Knight.
Tezuka was not afraid to try anything. Alongside shounen, seinen, gekiga, political works, psychological, medical dramas, fantasy, and …
