The ‘visual novel’ is one of the most successful video games genres in Japan; mostly found on PCs, the genre often involves static anime graphics mixed with text and a multi-branch story to create…
A fierce battle between Guren, the Leaf Ninja, and the three-tailed beast ends with Yuukimaru failing to control the three-tailed monster and splitting up the opposing sides. Our heroes decide…
“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…
“He may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.” – Groucho Marx
Fumizuki Academy is unlike every other educational…
“Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.” – Tom Robbins.
This second DVD set covers episodes 13-24 of what has so far proved to be a rather…
I think it would be safe to say that, if a series deserved a re-release in the UK – especially on Blu-ray – it would have to be Ghost in the Shell. I finally got a chance to watch the 1st &…
Episodes 160-167
“In order to save Orihime,” as the long-suffering narrator tells us at the beginning of every episode, “who was kidnapped by Sosuke Aizen, Ichigo and his friends…
“That was a right-pretty speech, sir. But I ask you, what is a contract? Webster’s defines it as ‘an agreement under the law which is unbreakable.’ Which is unbreakable!”…
“Keep a diary and one day it’ll keep you.” – Mae West
Yet another of Anime on Demand’s acquisitions, Mirai Nikki (Future Diary) is thrilling, shocking, sometimes confusing…
“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not the colour, but to accept God’s final decision on where your lips end.” – Jerry Seinfeld
The time: Somewhere…
The film opens up bluntly with the introduction of the new character Iceland, complaining about the lack of tourism in his country. But before we can get acquainted, the planet is attacked by aliens;…
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have the things about us.” – Iris Murdoch
Anime on Demand have not announced much in…
Jyu-Oh-Sei: Planet Of The Beast King, is something of an oddity. Produced by Studio Bones, better known for high-profile series such as Wolf’s Rain, Darker Than Black, and Eureka Seven, this …
“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…
‘”Blade Runner” meets “Ghost In The Shell” in the cyberpunk action-thriller Mardock Scramble: The First Compression’. That’s how Manga introduces…
It’s already a lottery within itself to have an anime series licensed for the UK, but to have multiple versions of the same story – especially one being a translation of the original book – is rarely…
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…
Looking at the cover of the second Naruto Shippuden movie “Bonds”, showing Naruto in the light and Sasuke in the dark, gave me the impression that the plot would focus on their broken bond and force…
“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…
