Anime Review
Kiddy Grade
“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…
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Hetalia: Axis Powers – Paint It, White!
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;…
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Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne: Series 1
“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…
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Jyu-Oh-Sei: Planet Of the Beast King
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 …
Manga Review
One Piece: 3-in-1: Volumes 1-3
“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…
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Mardock Scramble: The First Compression
‘”Blade Runner” meets “Ghost In The Shell” in the cyberpunk action-thriller Mardock Scramble: The First Compression’. That’s how Manga introduces…
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time: Time Traveller
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…
Manga Review
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Volume 4
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…
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Naruto Shippūden Movie 2: Bonds
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…
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Naruto: 3-in-1: Volumes 1-3
“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…
Manga Review
Fullmetal Alchemist: 3-in-1 edition: Volumes 1-3
“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…
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Exaella: Original Video Animation
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to stop the man touching the equipment.” – Warren…
Manga Review
Bleach: 3-in-1 edition: Volumes 1-3
“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 …
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Bleach Volume 16
Bleach Season 8 Part 1 The Arrancar 2: The Fierce Fight
Episodes 152-159
Ichigo and his companions were forced to split up as they fought their way into Las Noches to set Orihime free from Aizen’s…
Manga Review
With the Light: With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child
“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…
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Ouran High School Host Club: Ouran High School Host Club, Volumes 1-17
“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 …
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Codename: Sailor V: #1 & #2
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…
Manga Review
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: #1 to #3
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…
Anime Review
Fairy Tail Volume 1
Fairy Tail #1 Episodes 1-12
“In a land far, far away…”
Lucy Heartfilia is a young, pretty, and independent-minded Celestial Wizard who wants to join a guild so that she can earn her living by practising…
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Naruto: Shippuuden Volume 8
“One by one, the new generation will catch up to you, and in the end, they’ll surpass you,” says Kakashi to the defeated Akatsuki member Kakuzu.
Since Naruto tried out his new powerful jutsu “Rasen…