First, a warning. This review contains a couple of major spoilers for the *first* volume of Gurren Lagann because, well, I don’t see how I could possibly review this volume without doing…
Maid War Chronicles. The name gives you a surprisingly good idea of what to expect – a classically styled fantasy adventure… except with maids in the starring roles. “War …
Time for Tsubasa
I’m always excited when a book (usually manga) arrives for review, though of late that excitement has been a little dampened by some of the more recent Del Rey series which haven’t…
Blue Dragon: Volumes 5 & 6
Re-awaken your inner ten-year-old!
(Beware; there may be a couple of spoilers…)
Shu and his fellow Shadow Wielders are on the trail of the thief who stole the Extra…
Dororo is based on the comic by manga grandaddy, Osamu Tezuka, and even though I’m becoming more familiar with his work recently (Buddha, Black Jack, Metropolis, Astro Boy) the original…
Gurren Lagann is not the best anime ever made.
There, I’ve said it.
On the surface, Gurren Lagann isn’t even particularly original. Go Nagai was doing “Over the top manly super…
Young Shu – whose dream in life is to become a Knight Master – has left his village to travel with Zola, a female Shadow Wielder, and her apprentice Jiro, in her quest to defeat the evil tyrant Nene.…
Panda! Go Panda!
Mimiko is an orphaned girl with a perpetual pantyshot, and as our story starts her grandmother must to go away to attend her grandfather’s memorial service. Why this is …
‘Long ago, a great battle raged between the forces of Light and Darkness, with each side possessing great strengths, the mightiest of all being the power of Shadow. During the battle, the Seven…
“Listen, I know a real champion of justice. He never ran away… He fought against evil all by himself. He was my best friend…”
It is the summer of 1969, and young Kenji Endo…
Bleach is liked, by the majority of those who like it, I would imagine, for its successful underlying formula (which is equally apparent in Naruto); moving almost haphazardly between scenes …
MÄR apparently stands for “Märchen Awakens Romance”, but let’s not worry too much about that name, because it’s not explained anywhere in this volume, so it remains a mystery to me. The inclusion…
I opened my eyes, soaking wet and staring at the clearest blue sky I had ever seen in my life. The sound of the sea all around me and sand creeping it’s way into my boxers. I couldn’t remember…
“Now go to hell! I’ll splatter your guts!”
Not the the catchiest of catchphrases I’ve heard but it cuts right to the point. Let that quote set the standard for the entire…
Volume 14 of Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE continues to follow the trials and tribulations of a group of 4 dimension travelling friends. They were thrown together way back in Volume 1, each with…
On the back of this volume are written the words “Time Will Tell” and it is a very fitting phrase for this manga. Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE follows the adventures of four friends (Syaoran, Princess…
Lupin III is one of the longest running anime franchises in Japan. Spanning over forty years with three TV series, yearly television specials and a series of feature films with Studio Ghibli’s…
In the first feature length outing of the now forty year old master thief Lupin the Third we are introduced to the protagonist straight away but there’s only one problem, he’s been…
The 8th volume of this fantasy story from CLAMP continues to follow Princess Sakura (of Cardcaptor Sakura fame) as she travels across multiple dimensions in search of her lost feathers. No ordinary…
The third volume of Bleach commences with Ichigo, Yoruichi and their friends arriving at the Soul Society in order to save Rukia from her planned execution.
Entering the Rukongai district; a …
