Reviews

I'm Standing on a Million Lives promises to deliver something brand new to the fantasy genre, but does it deliver?

The fourth volume of A Sister’s All You Need continues to offer the fun and insightful story we love. As the protagonist deals with his light novel becoming a manga, the door opens for new and interesting tales of the industry.

Kizumonogatari is off to a slow but entertaining start. Having read the novel, I’m looking forward to what comes next in the films. However, even newcomers to Kizumonogatari’s story will be hooked from this intriguing beginning.

The manga version of Akira Toriyama’s Super storylines continue their release here in the UK with Volume 5, containing the final chapters of the Future Trunks arc, and the start of the next, rather crazy, storyline…

Volume 2 of Kino’s Journey: The Beautiful World continues to offer a compelling adventure series. Although it's not for the faint-hearted, if you can look past the depressing nature of these stories you’ll find a fascinating message about humanity.

The first season of My Hero Academia gets the series off to a solid start, telling Midoriya’s origin story and introducing many of the series’ popular characters with style.

Silver Spoon shows us that when people and animals come together good things happen. A coming-of-age story like no other, Silver Spoon is a true delight that belongs in every anime fans collection.

BAKI continues to be a hyper-violent spectacle of muscle and gore. It's not to everyone's taste but if you're looking for some ludicrous action anime junk food to consume, then this might be what you're hungry for.

Anime's ruthless, pint-sized soldier has returned! The war is still raging on and a worthy foe finally makes their long-awaited debut, but will "Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie" bring glory to the Empire?

Quality characters and action make Darling in the Franxx feel as if it could be something great in this excellent first bunch of episodes

Love in Focus hasn’t managed to break free of the tropes it started out with but it succeeds at being a fun read. Shojo fans will certainly enjoy their time spent with the likeable cast of characters, especially knowing that it’s a shorter series in the genre.

Dragon Ball Super: Broly is a thrilling action film, pitting Goku and Vegata against the hulking Broly with some great animation work and a solid backstory that eases in newcomers to the franchise. For all its outrageous action that fans will love, those coming into this fresh will find the elongated fight scenes go on for far too long, perhaps resulting in them switching off in its final moments.

The West has long awaited the arrival of Tomihiko Morimi’s books and that wait has been well worth it. Penguin Highway offers a summertime adventure the likes of which we’ve not seen for quite some time - It’s fun, comical and well written.

The second half of Re:ZERO offers a fascinating, engrossing watch as Subaru falls apart and then rises up anew. With a final arc that brings this first season to a wonderfully satisfying conclusion, Re:ZERO Part 2 will undoubtedly claim a piece of your heart.

What’s that? “Castlevania isn’t an anime!” Well, I’ll have you know… you’re right. But it’s being released by Anime Limited, and ticks a lot of the same boxes that our favourite subgenre does anyway, so… let’s take a look at this game adaptation’s first season!

Black Clover begins to find its footing in Part 2 after a rocky start, but is still struggling to set itself apart from other long-running shonen series.