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
Anime Review

Bleach: The Invading Army Part 1

Episodes 317-329

There’s never a dull moment for the Soul Society for substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends. No sooner have they defeated Aizen than a strange green-haired girl…

• 25th May 2015
Anime Review

Durarara!!

Quiet, unassuming fifteen-year-old Mikado Ryugamine moves from his safe but boring countryside home to Ikebukuro, Tokyo to start high school with his old friend Masaomi Kida – and witnesses…

• 20th May 2015
Anime Review

Parasyte: The Maxim

The manga series Parasyte (Hitoshi Awaaki) was launched in 1988 and concluded in 1995. Twenty years after finishing its run in afternoon magazine Parasyte was finally awarded its own anime…

• 4th May 2015
Anime Review

Gatchaman Crowds

“Bird, go!”

Tachikawa City, 2015. A boy genius, Rui Ninomiya, has created GALAX, an altruistic interactive IT system with which he hopes to change the world – for the better. The CROWDS is the …

• 27th April 2015
Anime Review

Harlock Space Pirate

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

Leiji Matusmoto is the creator of many great sci-fi anime of the 1970s: Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy…

• 26th April 2015
Manga Review

Karneval Volume 1

“Whenever Circus does a big operation to catch some bad guys, they put on a show for the townspeople to apologize.”

A white-haired boy, Nai, is desperately searching for Karoku, the young man who…

• 19th April 2015
Anime Review

The Ambition of Oda Nobuna

Present-day high-school student (and keen gamer) Yoshiharu Sagara finds himself bang in the middle of a fierce Warring States battle. A dying warlord (none other than Hideyoshi Toyotomi) begs…

• 15th April 2015
Anime Review

One Piece Volume 9

Episodes 206-229, may contain spoilers.

“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be one or the other.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.…

• 11th April 2015
Anime Review

Bleach: Fall of the Arrancar 2

Episodes 304-316

Spoilers! (Well, what did you expect…? It’s The Big Confrontation)

After two more filler episodes celebrating Bleach’s 10th Anniversary (which is, after all, something…

• 5th April 2015
Anime Review

Yu-Gi-Oh! Volume 2

“Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.” – Charles Fort

This second season…

• 29th March 2015