Manga Review
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Volume 2 Review
Relatives of video game characters past crop up as Komaru and Toko continue with their escape.
Manga Review
Sneeze Review
The Beatles, psychic tramps, cartoon mice and tourists to a destroyed Tokyo all star in this short story collection.
Manga Review
Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams Review
A rather familiar bucktoothed schemer and a US President who looks like a cross between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton star in Naoki Urasawa's one-shot series.
Manga Review
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Volume 1 Review
The second English manga release is based on the second Danganronpa game - which is odd as the first Danganronpa 2 manga was a spin-off.
Manga Review
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Volume 1 Review
Komaru Nagei, sister of original hero Makoto, takes centre stage in the latest Danganronpa manga released in English - helped by a certain novelist/serial killer.
Anime Review
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Review (Part 2)
Having covered the TV series, we now look at the three OVAs of the cypberpunk anime, and the accompanying guide to the entire collection.
Anime Review
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Complete Series Review (Part 1)
In the first of two reviews, we re-live the TV adaptation of the cyberpunk classic.
Anime Review
GANGSTA. – Collector’s Edition Review
GANGSTA. is an anime full of crime, gore and sign language, plus some lovable prostitutes and super-powered mercenaries. It also has a rather sudden ending, but does that ending hurt the overall series?! Read on!
Manga Review
Finder, Volume 8 Review
Copyright: Finder no Mitsuyaku © 2016 Ayano Yamane
WARNING: This article covers an adult title and may cause offense. May also contain spoilers from earlier volumes.
“A photograph is neither…
Manga Review
Erased Volume 1 Review
Last March I started watching Erased, a mystery story that was being adapted by A-1 Pictures. Over the course of its airing many anime fans took notice of the series and by the end of its run we were…
Manga Review
Review of The Ghost in the Shell: Deluxe Edition
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation…
Anime Review
Review of Death Note: Blu-Ray Collection
“You must believe in God, despite what the clergy tell you.” – Benjamin Jowlett
If Death Note succeeds in at least one thing, it is that it has possibly created the most interesting and intriguing…
Manga Review
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Omnibus 1 (Vol. 1-3)
“The body is but to the soule as a clogge tied to the legge.” – James Cole (1629).
Kuro Karatsu is a shaven-headed student at a Buddhist college with few prospects. If he has one…
Anime Review
Psycho-Pass Volume 1
In a not-too distant future, everyone lives in peace and security in Japan; the Sybil System screens the psyches of all citizens and ensures that anyone with latent criminal tendencies is locked…
Anime Review
Black Lagoon: Roberta`s Blood Trail
“The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. Men do not become tyrants so as not to suffer cold.” – Aristotle.
The first two TV series of Black Lagoon are rather fun,…
Anime Review
Un-Go
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” – Aldous Huxley
Un-Go has a vast mixture of elements to it. It is a detective show. It has both fantasy elements and…
Anime Review
Black Lagoon: the Second Barrage
“There’s a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy’s brain’s out. I’m a crook.” – Ronald Biggs
Released on Blu-ray…
Anime Review
Black Lagoon: Complete Series 1
“Always shoot to kill. Dead men cannot grass.” – Ronnie Kray
Kaze and Manga Entertainment have teamed up for this new Blu-ray release of the action-packed crime anime, with plenty…
Anime Review
Black Lagoon: the Second Barrage Volume 1
After treating us to neo-nazis, nuns with guns and an unstoppable chambermaid in the first season I was looking forward to see how Black Lagoon would up the ante in its much-anticipated Second …
Manga Review
Lupin III Volume 1
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…