I have to admit that s-CRY-ed isn’t a series that hooked me straightaway, but after thoroughly enjoying the closing episode of disc 2, I found myself looking forward to seeing what volume…
Following a long and bitter worldwide war the city of Olympus is created as a Utopia: the prototype for a perfect society. Many of its citizens are “Biodroids’ (sic), clones who are…
Stepping back from the crushing brutality that so stunned unwary anime fans in its second volume (myself included!), the third instalment of the Fullmetal Alchemist saga makes for an infinitely…
It has been three years since the intelligent robot “Black King Boss” and his Andro Army came to power, taking over a significant portion of the world and enslaving much of humanity.…
2005 marks the year that I discovered Yoshiyuki Tomino’s fabled Mobile Suit Gundam; it is rare to find a space opera with a story as far reaching as this, with characters, cultures and technologies…
Rally Vincent and Minnie May Hopkins are the Gunsmith Cats whose day job running a gun shop in Chicago acts as cover for their real roles, fearsome bounty hunters who will take on any job for the right…
When fifteen year old Kamui Shiro returns to Tokyo after a six year absence, he has just one goal in mind- fulfilling a promise to protect his childhood friends Fuma and Kotori. Much as he would like…
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 …
