Opinion

Feature: A Guide to the Odagiri Effect

“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.” – Alphonse Karr.

It is a question that many anime fans have asked themselves: what is it about high school male sports…

• 5th January 2017
Photo Kano Review
Anime Review

Photo Kano Review

Photo Kano Review

Kazuya Maeda is a second year high school student who receives a hand- me-down camera from his father. Determined to pursue his new hobby and turn his social life around, Maeda joins the school’s…

• 21st October 2016
Anime Review

Trinity Seven

Arata Kusaga’s life changes when the sun turns black and his world (ours?)  – and his beloved cousin Hijiri – are swallowed up by the Breakdown Phenomen. Gifted with a grimoire by Hijiri, Arata …

• 19th October 2016
Anime Review

Outbreak Company

“I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.” – ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

This is a series that has seemingly passed everyone at AUKN by. It …

• 26th October 2015
Anime Review

Kill la Kill Volume 3

Warning: contains spoilers.

“Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.” – Jani Allan. 

It is the third and final…

• 29th June 2015
Anime Review

The Ambition of Oda Nobuna

Present-day high-school student (and keen gamer) Yoshiharu Sagara finds himself bang in the middle of a fierce Warring States battle. A dying warlord (none other than Hideyoshi Toyotomi) begs…

• 15th April 2015
Anime Review

Kill la Kill Volume 2

Warning: may contain spoilers.

“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.” – Jack Nicholson.

Continuing on from the first collection, we witness more…

• 17th March 2015
Anime Review

Kill la Kill Volume 1

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde.

Kill la Kill is an anime which has a lot to live up to. The series is directed…

• 28th November 2014
Anime Review

Free!: Eternal Summer

Series 2, Episodes 1-4 (Streaming on Crunchyroll)

“It’s not the winning that counts, nor the taking part. It’s making fun of the little fat kid who always comes in last.” –…

• 26th July 2014
Manga Review

Love in Hell Volume 1

“I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘not…

• 5th November 2013
Anime Review

Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere

Plot Summary: In a distant future, Japan is divided into feudal territories, which have been conquered and are ruled by outside countries. The flying city-ship Musashi, which holds the remnants…

• 5th August 2013
Anime Review

Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts

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…

• 11th February 2013
Anime Review

Strike Witches Volume 2

“War is not nice.” – Barbara Bush.

Somewhere in an alternative version of the Earth, war is still raging between humans and aliens, war is still being led by young girls with magical…

• 22nd October 2012