Anime Review

009 Re:Cyborg

All across the world, unnamed terrorists have been destroying skyscrapers and causing death on an unimaginable scale. Seventeen-year-old Joe Shimamura, influenced by ‘His Voice’, is about…

• 19th September 2015
Anime Review

A Certain Magical Index

“The Lord said to my Lord, Sit in honour at my right hand until I humble your enemies beneath your feet.” – Matthew 22:44.

In the futuristic Academy City, studies are taking …

• 15th September 2015
Anime Review

Knights of Sidonia

“What is it that haunts space where matter is found?” – Arthur Eddington.

The year is 3394 A.D. A thousand years have passed since a race of gigantic aliens known as the Gauna…

• 8th September 2015
Manga Review

Inuyashiki Volume 1

“The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” – T. S. Eliot 

The front cover of this…

• 27th August 2015
Manga Review

Karneval Volume 2

“There are two main types of Varuga. One type was created by Kafka themselves using cellular fusion. The others were mutated after being exposed to the blood or other bodily fluids of the first …

• 18th August 2015
Anime Review

Captain Earth Volume 1

‘When I opened the door called truth, my childhood ended. It was a summer I could never forget.’

High school student Daichi returns to Tanegashima Island (where his father died working for the …

• 11th August 2015
Anime Review

One Piece Volume 11

Episodes 255-275, may contain spoilers.

“And I think it’s gonna be a long long time Till touch down brings me round again to find I’m not the man they think I am at home Oh no no …

• 10th August 2015
Manga Review

Twin Star Exorcists Volume 1

“Clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularity accompanied by hate, and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but…

• 5th August 2015
Anime Review

Dragon Ball Z Kai Volume 1

Episodes 1-26

Earth is in danger. A brutal alien warrior – with a tail! – arrives, searching for his brother, Kakarot. He has a scouter device which enables him to seek out Earth’s strongest warriors…

• 3rd August 2015
Anime Review

Bleach: The Lost Agent Part 1

Episodes 343-354

Over a year has passed since Ichigo lost his powers and he and his friends are doing the usual things seventeen-year-old high school kids do: part-time jobs; mooching around;…

• 20th July 2015
Anime Review

Samurai Bride

It’s been many months since Muneakira Yagyu and his Master Samurai girls defeated the great evil Gisen; now he’s back from his journey of training and longs to see how his dojo is doing. But in his…

• 11th July 2015
Anime Review

Tiger & Bunny: The Rising

The annual Justice Day festival is about to take place in Stern Bild City, commemorating the legend of the city’s origins and the terrible punishment meted out to the first inhabitants by the goddess…

• 7th July 2015
Anime Review

Bleach: The Invading Army Part 2

Episodes 330-342

Green-haired Nozomi has been abducted and taken back to the Soul Society by Kagerosa, the mastermind who has created the Reigai doubles of the Soul Reaper officers to bring …

• 3rd July 2015
Anime Review

Kill la Kill Volume 3

Warning: contains spoilers.

“Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.” – Jani Allan. 

It is the third and final…

• 29th June 2015
Anime Review

One Piece Volume 10

Episodes 230-252, may contain spoilers.

“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.” – John le Carre.

This latest collection of One Piece…

• 14th June 2015
Anime Review

One Piece: Film Z

Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates are enjoying a little down time on their ship, the Sunny, when they encounter a formidable foe. The embittered Z, once the honoured Marine Admiral Zephyr, has decided…

• 29th May 2015