Reviews
Streaming review of Yuri!!! On Ice, Episodes 9-12 (Crunchyroll)
WARNING: Contains spoilers
Link to review of Episodes 1-8.
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”…
Review of Death Note: Blu-Ray Collection
“You must believe in God, despite what the clergy tell you.” – Benjamin Jowlett
If Death Note succeeds in at least one thing, it is that it has possibly created the most interesting and intriguing…
Fullmetal Alchemist Collector’s Edition Part 2
When I was given the chance to review the first Collector’s Edition of Fullmetal Alchemist I was overjoyed (you can find my first review here). I really love this series and so it’ll come as no surprise…
Review: Southwark Playhouse presents Kiki’s Delivery Service
Studio Ghibli has been a household name in Japan for many decades now but its movies have touched many hearts across the world, especially in the UK, where several playwrights have taken the magic…
Fairy Tail, Collection 10 (Ep. 109-120) Review
“As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree’ – probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.” – Woody Allen.
It has been nearly two years since the last Fairy Tail collection was…
Ouran High School Host Club Review
*** This is an edited/revised version of our original reviews of Ouran High School Host Club which deals with the content of the series: story; script; music etc. posted to celebrate the new Collector’s…
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in A Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria Volume 1 Review
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?(henceforth referred to by its Japanese abbreviation DanMachi) is one of my favourite light novel series, so when a spin-off series was licensed…
Streaming review of Yuri!!! On Ice, Episodes 1-8 (Crunchyroll)
“Galocher – to kiss with tongues.” “La galoche – an ice-skating boot.” – Definitions from Petit Robert, France’s most popular dictionary.
It seems that in France ice skating and kissing go hand-in-hand…
Review of Scumbag Loser
SAITEIHEN NO OTOKO -Scumbag Loser- vols 1, 2, 3 © 2012, 2013 Mikoto Yamaguti / SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
“Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same…
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Season 2 Collection
When we last left our duelling heroes, the signers had overcome their differences, united and saved the world from certain destruction. Old rivalries mutually fizzled into friendships, lost…
The Place Promised in Our Early Days / Voices of a Distant Star Twin Pack Review
Makoto Shinkai is currently known as the director of 2016’s biggest Japanese animated film, Your Name. But many years prior he was a beloved director of shorter, more unconventional pieces, …
Nobunaga the Fool Part 2 Review
Episodes 14-24
The warriors of the Western and Eastern Star battle on to determine who will be the Saviour King to rule them all and to bring about the coming of the Holy Grail. Jeanne Kaguya d’Arc,…