“Pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.” – Ian Anderson.
We are now moving into a closing movement in the life of Ho-kago Tea Time, the five-piece band unique…
“You want my treasure? You can have it. I left it everything I gathered together in one place. Now you just have to find it!” The last words of Gold Roger, the King of the Pirates.
Monkey…
“Apapapa!” (Apachai Hopachai)
‘Weak knees’ Kenichi Shirayama is a good-natured, book-loving student with a big problem: everyone keeps picking on him. But his …
Project A-Ko is a reviewer’s nightmare. After the end credits have rolled, initial impressions have coalesced, and the infectious ’80s guitar pop of ‘Follow Your Dreams’…
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso
As a lover of manga and anime I believe that Bakuman is a must-read manga because…
The latest CLAMP series to be re-released in omnibus edition is Angelic Layer, a prequel to Chobits, where Misaki Suzuhara has just moved into Tokyo City to live with her aunt, Shouko. Upon arrival…
“Music is powerless to express anything.” – Igor Stravinsky.
Liverpool gave us the Fab Four called “The Beatles”, Rutland gave us the Pre-Fab Four called “The…
“I love those decadent wenches who do so trouble my dreams.” – Rembrandt.
There are plenty of fan-service filled anime out there, most of which vary in quality. If you are making an…
“Listen, you lowlifes, who will never amount to anything…”
Penguindrum is directed and co-written by Kunihiko Ikuhara, who is best known for his work on Sailor Moon and creating…
Fairytales such as Red Riding Hood and Snow White have existed for centuries, and have been retold over and over again via bedtime stories to our children and modern storytelling mediums such …
Dream Eater Merry has left me in the middle. I don’t know if I either liked or disliked it; it felt like one of those shows that has potential but loses it by the last episode. Its flaws range…
“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.” – Ring Lardner
While the second volume for this shojo manga was a bit quiet, the third…
“…and with the bowels of the last priest let us strangle the last king.” – Denis Diderot.
When I reviewed the first half of this series, I wrote that it provoked a range…
You have to feel sorry for the students of Class 2-F at Fumizuki Academy. The losers in the educational experiment (or ESB) promoted by the principal, they have to put up with the worst educational…
“The clergy of England have no more influence over the people at large than the cheesemongers of England.” – Sydney Smith.
This series will make you go through a range of feelings.…
Gintama is one of those shounen shows that was never popular enough to join the likes of Naruto, Bleach and One Piece in terms of worldwide success, yet, unlike those three, I have not met a person…
Anime Mirai literally means “Future Anime”. The idea of this project is simple: to offer the opportunity to train new talent on the job, as they work on one of four short films that …
“You know ‘that look’ women get when they want sex? Me neither.” – Steve Martin.
Looking at the front cover on the DVD for Freezing, I can tell you that the amount of fan…
“The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.” – George Miller.
So, another season of Hetalia, another collection of episodes …
As a reviewer, I love talking about my expectations in every intro I do, but for Sekirei they were very slim, and basically I thought this was going to be a forgettable fan service anime. However …
