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Message to Adolf Volume 1

“What luck for rulers that men do not think.” – Adolf Hitler.

Osamu Tezuka may be better known for his children’s work, especially Astro Boy, but this thrilling historical…

• 23rd September 2012
Anime Review

Fairy Tail Volume 4

“I am a member of a magic circle – The Secret Six – which is so secret I don’t know the other five.” – Tommy Cooper.

This fourth collection of episodes is currently the last…

• 20th September 2012
Anime Review

Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Ball Z #2

The second season of Dragon Ball Z follows the adventures of Gohan, Bulma, and Krillin, who departed from Earth after Goku’s victory over Vegeta in search of planet Namek and its Dragon …

• 5th September 2012
Anime Review

Blue Exorcist Volume 1

In recent years we’ve had a large increase of Shounen titles available to UK viewers; not only we are continually getting DVD releases for Naruto and Bleach, but thanks to legal streaming…

• 19th August 2012
Anime Review

Squid Girl: Season 1

“I know that the human being and the fish can co-exist peacefully.” – George W. Bush

Squid Girl does something which is very clever – making a villain likeable. It is …

• 12th August 2012
Anime Review

Arrietty

Living underneath the floorboards of a house out in the countryside are a family of Borrowers: small people who live their lives ‘borrowing’ various items from the humans that they will not miss,…

• 5th August 2012
Anime Review

Spice and Wolf: Season II

Merchant Kraft Lawrence is travelling north with his unusual companion, Holo, a wolf goddess, who has taken human form as a beautiful young woman (with, of course, ears and a splendid tail.) Holo…

• 4th August 2012
Manga Review

Secretary’s Job?

Thirty-something Takase is known as the ‘Legendary Secretary’, so the company president thinks that he’s just the right man to sort out his lazy and unmotivated son Toshiaki…

• 4th August 2012
Manga Review

Castle Mango Volume 1

“A love hotel is a place to nurture love…and love wins against all odds.” Toshio Shirosaki.

High school student Yorozu Shirosaki helps his mother run the gloriously kitsch…

• 25th July 2012
Manga Review

Jiu Jiu Volume 1

“When novelist Margaret Atwood asked women what they feared most from men, they said: “We’re afraid they’ll kill us.” When men were asked the same question …

• 14th July 2012
Anime Review

Dragon Ball Z Volume 1

And now, Manga Entertainment has finally done it and released Dragon Ball Z in the UK. DBZ is almost like a dream come true release for Manga’s public face, Jerome. Ever since I first met …

• 12th July 2012