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Love Stage!!

Episodes 1-2 (Streaming on Crunchyroll)

Eighteen-year-old Izumi has it tough. His mother, Nagisa Sena, is a famous actress, his father is a famous singer-turned-impresario, and his older …

• 20th July 2014
Anime Review

Dragon Ball Volume 2

“Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.”- Blake Clark. 

This second collection of episodes from the original series…

• 16th July 2014
Manga Review

Flowering Harbour

“At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.” – Mignon McLaughlin

This is a somewhat exciting title: not in terms of plot, content, or the avant grade…

• 13th July 2014
Manga Review

xxxHolic: Omnibus 2

“A wet man does not fear rain.” – Russian proverb.

The second omnibus edition of CLAMP’s supernatural series continues to feature more unusual activity in witch Yuko…

• 3rd July 2014
Anime Review

Fate Zero Volume 2

Part 1 left the series on a cliff-hanger, with Caster’s cthulhu-like creature growing in the centre of the city and ready to devour it. The other servants and masters have gathered to destroy him,…

• 29th June 2014
Anime Review

Fate Zero Volume 1

Ten years before Fate/Stay Night, the Fourth Holy Grail war took place in Fuyuki City; seven mages from around the world gathered and summoned their own servants for a chance to obtain the power…

• 23rd June 2014
Anime Review

Girls Und Panzer: OVA

“Well there’s egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and…

• 18th June 2014
Anime Review

Guilty Crown Volume 2

Everything that Shu Ouma has forgotten about Lost Christmas – the day in 2029 on which the lethal Apocalypse Virus struck – is cruelly and vividly restored. Now he remembers that he had a sister …

• 17th June 2014
Anime Review

Accel World Volume 1

“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we wouldn’t.” – Emerson Pugh

It is interesting to look at this series now, because…

• 13th June 2014
Anime Review

Blue Exorcist: The Movie

Rin and Yukio Okumura, twin student exorcists at the True Cross Academy, are on a mission to exorcise a Phantom Train that takes the souls of the dead beneath the city to oblivion in Gehenna. At the…

• 6th June 2014
Anime Review

Girls Und Panzer Volume 1

“Civilization is a youth with a Molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.” – Edward Abbey

There are many anime that could arguably…

• 3rd June 2014
Manga Review

xxxHolic: Omnibus 1

“A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you’re a business failure.” – John Paul Getty

Kodansha has now begun releasing omnibus editions of xxxHolic,…

• 2nd June 2014
Manga Review

Say “I love you”. Volume 1

Mei Tachibana is a high school girl with no friends or boyfriend; in fact many students have never even heard her voice. She’s a loner who shunned all others due to a betrayal many years ago, but changes…

• 31st May 2014
Anime Review

One Piece Volume 6

“Two things awe me most: the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.” – Immanuel Kant.

This sixth collection of the anime adaptation of the most popular manga ever sold…

• 17th May 2014