Anime Review

009 Re:Cyborg

All across the world, unnamed terrorists have been destroying skyscrapers and causing death on an unimaginable scale. Seventeen-year-old Joe Shimamura, influenced by ‘His Voice’, is about…

• 19th September 2015
Manga Review

Karneval Volume 2

“There are two main types of Varuga. One type was created by Kafka themselves using cellular fusion. The others were mutated after being exposed to the blood or other bodily fluids of the first …

• 18th August 2015
Anime Review

One Piece Volume 11

Episodes 255-275, may contain spoilers.

“And I think it’s gonna be a long long time Till touch down brings me round again to find I’m not the man they think I am at home Oh no no …

• 10th August 2015
Manga Review

Servamp Volume 2

“We servamps get power from your blood. Actually the will in your blood. But you have none.” Kuro to Mahiru. “Do you protect your friend? Or kill him?”

Mahiru Shirota’s…

• 27th July 2015
Anime Review

Bleach: The Lost Agent Part 1

Episodes 343-354

Over a year has passed since Ichigo lost his powers and he and his friends are doing the usual things seventeen-year-old high school kids do: part-time jobs; mooching around;…

• 20th July 2015
Anime Review

Bleach: The Invading Army Part 2

Episodes 330-342

Green-haired Nozomi has been abducted and taken back to the Soul Society by Kagerosa, the mastermind who has created the Reigai doubles of the Soul Reaper officers to bring …

• 3rd July 2015
Anime Review

One Piece Volume 10

Episodes 230-252, may contain spoilers.

“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.” – John le Carre.

This latest collection of One Piece…

• 14th June 2015
Manga Review

Servamp Volume 1

“I’m just your… friendly neighbourhood vampire.”

High-schooler Shirota Mahiru – a kind-hearted young man – finds a stray black kitty, calls it ‘Kuro’ and takes it home with him. Imagine…

• 12th June 2015
Anime Review

One Piece: Film Z

Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates are enjoying a little down time on their ship, the Sunny, when they encounter a formidable foe. The embittered Z, once the honoured Marine Admiral Zephyr, has decided…

• 29th May 2015
Anime Review

Bleach: The Invading Army Part 1

Episodes 317-329

There’s never a dull moment for the Soul Society for substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends. No sooner have they defeated Aizen than a strange green-haired girl…

• 25th May 2015
Anime Review

Log Horizon Volume 2

“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.” – George Orwell.

Continuing …

• 17th May 2015
Anime Review

Harlock Space Pirate

“What is it that haunts space where matter is found?” – Arthur Eddington

Leiji Matusmoto is the creator of many great sci-fi anime of the 1970s: Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy…

• 26th April 2015
Manga Review

Karneval Volume 1

“Whenever Circus does a big operation to catch some bad guys, they put on a show for the townspeople to apologize.”

A white-haired boy, Nai, is desperately searching for Karoku, the young man who…

• 19th April 2015
Anime Review

Log Horizon Volume 1

“Everybody has got to die, but I’ve always believed an exception would be made in my case.” – William Saroyan. 

Anime set in the world of gaming have been popular recently,…

• 13th April 2015
Anime Review

One Piece Volume 9

Episodes 206-229, may contain spoilers.

“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be one or the other.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.…

• 11th April 2015
Anime Review

Bleach: Fall of the Arrancar 2

Episodes 304-316

Spoilers! (Well, what did you expect…? It’s The Big Confrontation)

After two more filler episodes celebrating Bleach’s 10th Anniversary (which is, after all, something…

• 5th April 2015