If there is a volume that encapsulates everything that makes Gungrave such a fine series, it is this one. This is Brandon Heat’s tragic closing night, the promised implosion of friendship…
With the way the previous volume ended, I could hardly wait to catch up with these final three episodes of Stand Alone Complex. Emotions were frayed, metal was twisted and I was on the edge of my seat…
On the planet Sentinel III, Gene Starwind and his young partner Jim Hawking run the creatively titled “Starwind and Hawking Enterprises”, a small business that handles any job …
I think it would be fair to say that so far, Stand Alone Complex has been a great series; although on occasion it has dabbled in too much techno-babble for even my liking, the series has remained true…
The three Paper Sisters are sent out on another assignment by the Dokusensha to retrieve another lost book, then talk Nenene into taking them to a writers’ awards ceremony. Meanwhile, …
Now that more or less all of the films produced by members of Studio Ghibli have been picked up by Optimum Releasing, it’s no surprise that they have also bought the rights to Castle of Cagliostro,…
For the past 1800 years legendary fighters have fought an ongoing battle for supremacy, their souls locked inside small pieces of jewellery that have been passed down the generations. Now, the…
Like cheese and jam sandwiches the very thought of Samurai mixed with Hip Hop is enough to turn one’s stomach. It’s only after you’ve taken your first bite that you realise …
Street Fighter was a massive gaming franchise in the early to mid 1990s, almost every arcade loving kid should have some recollection of Chung Li’s “Spinning Bird Kick” or…
GANTZ has arrived in the UK with a reputation for controversy; you may have heard it described as mindless violence or overly sexual- those comments are not wrong, but what separates this series…
Shinichiro Watanabe’s highly touted follow up to Cowboy Bebop, a series regarded by many as the zenith of modish, anime science fiction, has finally arrived on our shores. This time round…
Considered by many to be Hayao Miyazaki’s life work, “Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind” is a fantastic film. Mixing up his now famous themes of crimes against nature with a bleak…
Far off in the future, in an era dominated by hulking cyborgs and genetically spliced human clones (the preferred term is “bioroids”), mankind’s suicidal attraction to …
Najica Hiiragi is famed throughout Japan as a top perfume designer for CRI- but what only a handful of people know is that she also works for them in another capacity- as a secret agent. When she’s…
Taking Place in one of Gundam’s many Alternative Universes (or the AU era) during the Correct Century, year 2345, Turn A Gundam chronicles the lives of three Moonrace teenagers, the silver…
If any director’s work deserves a blind buy, it’s Katsuhiro Otomo; the man who arguably brought Japanese animation to serious Western attention with his 1988 cyber-punk thriller…
Despite mixing the familiar “steal from the rich, give to the poor” morality of classic medieval fable Robin Hood with X-Men’s “mutant outcasts with special powers”,…
In the not-so-distant future, Earth has become a post apocalyptic wasteland. In isolated towns and villages, people struggle to rebuild, only to have their efforts constantly destroyed or …
Continuing its epic struggle across the desolate universe, we follow the rag-tag crew of the White Base (a.k.a. the Trojan Horse) as it’s trailed over land, sea and space by the mysterious…
For a series as revered in the science fiction genre as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, I feel somewhat unsettled to suggest that what pushes my enthusiasm for this show beyond anime of …
