Episodes 168-178
The position of Captain of the Third Court Guard Squad has been vacant since Gin Ichimaru turned traitor and left the Soul Society to follow Sōsuke Aizen. So when the name of Shūsuke…
Otanashi is dead. Well, at least that’s what he’s told by the very brash female student Yuri upon waking up on the grounds of a school with no memories of how he got there or anything of his life previously.…
‘Fade to Black’ is the third feature film based on the Bleach franchise and like the previous movies, it feels like just a long episode of the series. Little is explained to the casual…
Where Masamune Shirow is concerned, there’s quite often a feeling among his fans that the man can do no wrong. Fabled for his super-detailed, highly individual manga works, and beloved of not …
As anyone into anime is aware, Bleach is a long-running shounen show, currently in its eighth year on air and it’s still strong with its fans. ‘Memories of Nobody’ is the first…
A fierce battle between Guren, the Leaf Ninja, and the three-tailed beast ends with Yuukimaru failing to control the three-tailed monster and splitting up the opposing sides. Our heroes decide…
“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.” – Thomas Hardy.
If you are into your anime and manga then you will no doubt have come across…
“Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.” – Tom Robbins.
This second DVD set covers episodes 13-24 of what has so far proved to be a rather…
Episodes 160-167
“In order to save Orihime,” as the long-suffering narrator tells us at the beginning of every episode, “who was kidnapped by Sosuke Aizen, Ichigo and his friends…
“Keep a diary and one day it’ll keep you.” – Mae West
Yet another of Anime on Demand’s acquisitions, Mirai Nikki (Future Diary) is thrilling, shocking, sometimes confusing…
“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.” – The Bible, Book of Psalms 107:23-24.
One…
‘”Blade Runner” meets “Ghost In The Shell” in the cyberpunk action-thriller Mardock Scramble: The First Compression’. That’s how Manga introduces…
Looking at the cover of the second Naruto Shippuden movie “Bonds”, showing Naruto in the light and Sasuke in the dark, gave me the impression that the plot would focus on their broken bond and force…
“The fox knows many things; the hedgehog, one big thing.” – Erasmus
Naruto is the third of the four big shonen mangas that I am reviewing the first three volumes of (the others…
“Oh, ye seekers of perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you pursued? Go and take your place with the alchemists.” – Leonardo da Vinci
In the second article in my series looking…
“Black spirits and white, red spirits and grey, mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.” – William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
For some reason, probably due to the fact …
Bleach Season 8 Part 1 The Arrancar 2: The Fierce Fight
Episodes 152-159
Ichigo and his companions were forced to split up as they fought their way into Las Noches to set Orihime free from Aizen’s…
Fairy Tail #1 Episodes 1-12
“In a land far, far away…”
Lucy Heartfilia is a young, pretty, and independent-minded Celestial Wizard who wants to join a guild so that she can earn her living by practising…
“One by one, the new generation will catch up to you, and in the end, they’ll surpass you,” says Kakashi to the defeated Akatsuki member Kakuzu.
Since Naruto tried out his new powerful jutsu “Rasen…
“Never lend books; no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books other people have lent me.” – Anatole France
When reading Library Wars I cannot help but make…
