Anime Review

Karneval

Young cat burglar Gareki, breaking and entering a big town mansion, comes upon the wealthy lady owner making inappropriate advances on a wide-eyed boy. When she transforms into a hideous monster,…

• 18th September 2014
Anime Review

Attack on Titan Volume 1

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton 

Finally, one of the most anticipated anime releases of the year is out. Attack on Titan …

• 14th September 2014
Manga Review

xxxHOLIC Rei Volume 1

“It is all the result of man’s wishes.”

Kimihiro Watanuki is a high schooler who – in order to escape the spirits that have been pursuing him – has become the domestic help of the dimension witch Yūko…

• 29th August 2014
Anime Review

Fairy Tail Volume 8

This review may contain spoilers.

“When magic becomes scientific fact we refer to it as medicine or astronomy.” – Anton Lavey

In this eighth part of Fairy Tail we witness the…

• 13th August 2014
Anime Review

Campione!

Kusanagi Godo is in Sardinia on a mission for his ethnographer grandfather to return a mysterious ancient stone tablet. He finds himself involved in an ages-old battle between gods and men when…

• 7th August 2014
Manga Review

xxxHolic: Omnibus 2

“A wet man does not fear rain.” – Russian proverb.

The second omnibus edition of CLAMP’s supernatural series continues to feature more unusual activity in witch Yuko…

• 3rd July 2014
Anime Review

Fate Zero Volume 2

Part 1 left the series on a cliff-hanger, with Caster’s cthulhu-like creature growing in the centre of the city and ready to devour it. The other servants and masters have gathered to destroy him,…

• 29th June 2014
Anime Review

Fate Zero Volume 1

Ten years before Fate/Stay Night, the Fourth Holy Grail war took place in Fuyuki City; seven mages from around the world gathered and summoned their own servants for a chance to obtain the power…

• 23rd June 2014
Anime Review

Blue Exorcist: The Movie

Rin and Yukio Okumura, twin student exorcists at the True Cross Academy, are on a mission to exorcise a Phantom Train that takes the souls of the dead beneath the city to oblivion in Gehenna. At the…

• 6th June 2014
Manga Review

xxxHolic: Omnibus 1

“A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you’re a business failure.” – John Paul Getty

Kodansha has now begun releasing omnibus editions of xxxHolic,…

• 2nd June 2014
Anime Review

Bakemonogatari: DVD Review

With the conclusion of the Suruga Monkey arc at the end of the Part 1 box set, we proceed into the last two arcs in Part 2 and the end of a well-made series – but do these couple of stories make …

• 3rd May 2014
Anime Review

Fairy Tail Volume 7

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.” – Garrison Keillor 

This latest collection of Fairy Tail is pretty topsy-turvy. We see the strangest…

• 27th April 2014
Anime Review

Sword Art Online Volume 4

“As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree’, probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.” – Woody Allen

The fourth and final release of SAO…

• 31st March 2014
Manga Review

Ranma 1/2: Volume 1-2

“When 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, they said:…

• 12th March 2014
Anime Review

Sword Art Online Volume 3

“You should treat a muse like a fairy.” – Paulo Coelho

At the end of Part 2 we witnessed the video game “Sword Art Online” being completed and coming to an end. Now…

• 26th February 2014
Anime Review

Dusk Maiden of Amnesia

Teiichi Niiya is a first year middle school student at Seikyou Private Academy, a huge school that has a lot of ghost stories tied to it due to there being a mixture of ‘new’ and ‘old’ buildings …

• 25th February 2014