Long before Spirited Away, before Studio Ghibli, one of Hayao Miyazaki’s first directorial gigs was the Lupin III TV series. One of the most enduring characters in anime and manga aimed…
I was very excited to see Nerawareta Gakuen, I truly was. Before the movie, I discussed and defended studio Sunrise’s recent Slice Of Life projects as some of the surprisingly well made ones around…
Episodes 14-25
It starts out as a normal training exercise for the young Ex-Wires from True Cross Academy – and then Amaimon, demon lord of the earth, appears. Driven beyond his limits as…
When I reviewed the first volume of Phoenix Wright: Official Casebook last year, I felt disappointed by the way it focused on funny short stories that were either good or bad; it was basically…
“‘Life,’ wrote a friend of mine, ‘is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.'” – E. M. Forster.
Life moves on…
“I am a member of a magic circle – The Secret Six – which is so secret I don’t know the other five.” – Tommy Cooper.
This fourth collection of episodes is currently the last…
2011 was a great but short year for the so-called Noitamina line-up of DVD releases; both House of Five Leaves and The Tatami Galaxy were terrific series that were a bit different from the usual …
Whether you’re a fan of supernatural fiction or not, its popularity and sudden rise in the public eye has made everyone aware of the basics; vampires drink blood, werewolves come out at …
Endings must be a daunting thing to write for story creators, because no matter what you write not every fan is going to be pleased with how their favourite characters end their tale. Every reader…
In recent years we’ve had a large increase of Shounen titles available to UK viewers; not only we are continually getting DVD releases for Naruto and Bleach, but thanks to legal streaming…
[ Please Note: The initial batch of Panty & Stocking have been found to have a production fault that means some footage is missing. Please see Manga’s website for details on what to do…
“I know that the human being and the fish can co-exist peacefully.” – George W. Bush
Squid Girl does something which is very clever – making a villain likeable. It is …
Thirty-something Takase is known as the ‘Legendary Secretary’, so the company president thinks that he’s just the right man to sort out his lazy and unmotivated son Toshiaki…
“When novelist Margaret Atwood asked women what they feared most from men, they said: “We’re afraid they’ll kill us.” When men were asked the same question …
Otanashi is dead. Well, at least that’s what he’s told by the very brash female student Yuri upon waking up on the grounds of a school with no memories of how he got there or anything of his life previously.…
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and we cannot live in.” – James Baldwin
So, all good things must come to an end and this is no exception.
There are several problems…
Way back in the dark and distant past (well 1994 to be exact) Roujin Z was an unusual release for (what was then) Manga Video. The smartly satirical sci-fi comedy sat oddly alongside their mostly…
The ‘visual novel’ is one of the most successful video games genres in Japan; mostly found on PCs, the genre often involves static anime graphics mixed with text and a multi-branch story to create…
“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.” – Thomas Hardy.
If you are into your anime and manga then you will no doubt have come across…
“He may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.” – Groucho Marx
Fumizuki Academy is unlike every other educational…
