“You want my treasure? You can have it. I left it everything I gathered together in one place. Now you just have to find it!” The last words of Gold Roger, the King of the Pirates.
Monkey…
Back in the early noughties, the original Hellsing was a big hit. The 2001 TV series was a lot of fun, and overcame the occasionally wonky animation (from the notoriously occasionally wonky Studio…
The setting is idyllic. The old temple overlooks a peaceful lake and the priest’s daughter and shrine maiden, Saya Kisaragi (Nana Mizuki/Alexis Tipton) sets out singing every day on her…
Project A-Ko is a reviewer’s nightmare. After the end credits have rolled, initial impressions have coalesced, and the infectious ’80s guitar pop of ‘Follow Your Dreams’…
To be fair, it would be hard to top the episodes that were contained in the last box set and sadly, this twelfth box set doesn’t continue the great quality of episodes and stumbles a lot of times,…
The latest CLAMP series to be re-released in omnibus edition is Angelic Layer, a prequel to Chobits, where Misaki Suzuhara has just moved into Tokyo City to live with her aunt, Shouko. Upon arrival…
“Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.” – Bruce Graham.
Astro Boy is widely regarded as being one of the greatest, if not the greatest,…
Tiger & Bunny Episodes 8 – 13
‘Do we really need heroes???’ (Newsfeed Stern Bild City)
As the sinister and grotesque Lunatic continues to pose a real threat to the Heroes,…
“I do not believe in ghosts, astrology, palmistry, John Cage, love or God.” – Gore Vidal.
The supernatural anime series Ga-Rei Zero has a few problems facing it. For starters there…
“Botany is a sequel of murder and a chronicle of the dead.” – Julian Hawthorne.
One keen aspect for British anime fans concerning this film is that it is mostly set in a castle in Scotland.…
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.” – Joseph Joubert.
In this ninth volume of the manga adaptation of Hiro Arikawa’s light novels,…
Fairytales such as Red Riding Hood and Snow White have existed for centuries, and have been retold over and over again via bedtime stories to our children and modern storytelling mediums such …
Rikuo Nura, a bespectacled, good-natured twelve-year-old, attends school like other boys his age. But when he goes home… he’s welcomed by the many yokai (demons) who are the members…
It’s hard to believe that I’ve seen this film three times now. I was very fortunate to watch the first and second films back in 2011 at both Scotland Loves Anime and We Love Anime. So around …
Episodes 10-17
Can Yu and friends save teen idol Rise from herself as she is the next one to be pushed into the TV screen and appear on the sinister Midnight Channel? Naoto Shiragane (Romi Park/Mary…
Dream Eater Merry has left me in the middle. I don’t know if I either liked or disliked it; it felt like one of those shows that has potential but loses it by the last episode. Its flaws range…
“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.” – Ring Lardner
While the second volume for this shojo manga was a bit quiet, the third…
It’s been one year since the Black Rebellion; Zero has been proclaimed dead, the Black Knights are fewer in numbers, and Lelouch seems to be resuming his peaceful school life with his newly acquired…
Bleach Season 10 Part 2 Episodes 202 – 212
Soul Reaper Captain Kenpachi Zaraki is having the fight of his life against Arrancar Nnoitra – in fact he’s fighting for his life. …
“…and with the bowels of the last priest let us strangle the last king.” – Denis Diderot.
When I reviewed the first half of this series, I wrote that it provoked a range…
