“I do not believe in ghosts, astrology, palmistry, John Cage, love or God.” – Gore Vidal.
The supernatural anime series Ga-Rei Zero has a few problems facing it. For starters there…
Egoistic Blue © 2012 Mio Tennohji/Libre Publishing Co., Ltd.
“The best way of reproducing the ancient Greek temperament would be to cross the Scots with the Chinese.” – Hugh MacDiarmid…
“Botany is a sequel of murder and a chronicle of the dead.” – Julian Hawthorne.
One keen aspect for British anime fans concerning this film is that it is mostly set in a castle in Scotland.…
Princess Miyu is a vampire chosen to act as Guardian of the Eastern World with the task of tracking down shinma (demon gods) hiding in contemporary Japan to prey on mortals. Aided by Larva, her eternal…
Japan, mid-21st century. Following a deadly virus, most of humanity avoids physical contact, carries iPod-like “monitors” that control their lives and eats synthetic food provided…
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.” – Joseph Joubert.
In this ninth volume of the manga adaptation of Hiro Arikawa’s light novels,…
Fairytales such as Red Riding Hood and Snow White have existed for centuries, and have been retold over and over again via bedtime stories to our children and modern storytelling mediums such …
Rikuo Nura, a bespectacled, good-natured twelve-year-old, attends school like other boys his age. But when he goes home… he’s welcomed by the many yokai (demons) who are the members…
It’s hard to believe that I’ve seen this film three times now. I was very fortunate to watch the first and second films back in 2011 at both Scotland Loves Anime and We Love Anime. So around …
Episodes 10-17
Can Yu and friends save teen idol Rise from herself as she is the next one to be pushed into the TV screen and appear on the sinister Midnight Channel? Naoto Shiragane (Romi Park/Mary…
Dream Eater Merry has left me in the middle. I don’t know if I either liked or disliked it; it felt like one of those shows that has potential but loses it by the last episode. Its flaws range…
“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.” – Ring Lardner
While the second volume for this shojo manga was a bit quiet, the third…
It’s been one year since the Black Rebellion; Zero has been proclaimed dead, the Black Knights are fewer in numbers, and Lelouch seems to be resuming his peaceful school life with his newly acquired…
Bleach Season 10 Part 2 Episodes 202 – 212
Soul Reaper Captain Kenpachi Zaraki is having the fight of his life against Arrancar Nnoitra – in fact he’s fighting for his life. …
Ever since the original Toy Story came out, Computer Generated imagery has ruled the big-screen animation output in the west. Fantastic as some of these films may have been, for lovers of the art…
“No one who has not sat in prison knows what the State is like.” – Leo Tolstoy.
In terms of Osamu Tezuka’s work, Ayako certainly fits into his darker side. It is not as dark however …
“…and with the bowels of the last priest let us strangle the last king.” – Denis Diderot.
When I reviewed the first half of this series, I wrote that it provoked a range…
The new enemy, the Dead Moon Circus, have switched Usagi’s and Chibi-Usa’s body sizes! Will they be able to return to normal? Also; Mamoru has been feeling poorly lately, coughing up strange black…
If the Code Geass fan base was a house party, I would be the one stumbling into the living room at the early hours of the morning, just as the crowd are taking their leave, mumbling something about …
You have to feel sorry for the students of Class 2-F at Fumizuki Academy. The losers in the educational experiment (or ESB) promoted by the principal, they have to put up with the worst educational…
