Volume 4 gets off to a flying start (literally) as the Minerva is attacked by mobile suits on the way to Suez. Neo Roanoke takes to the skies with the Extended pilots Auel and Sting, leaving Stella…

Cagalli is out of her depth. She has been trying to do the right thing for the nation of Orb but events have overtaken her. Yuna Roma Seiran, her violet-haired fiancé (could he be any more obnoxious?)…

After the run-in with the military, the Gekkostate seek refuge in an abandoned mine to take on supplies and make much-needed repairs. With Eureka’s emotional condition worsening and tensions…

For a series that sells itself as ‘the only anime to be set in Venezuela’, ‘Jinki:Extend’ is remarkably lacking in Venezuelan local colour. Sure, there are a couple of info dumps about table mountains…

Pan-Taron is in the driving seat again as the pilot of the Panda Z, the awe-inspiring mecha that protects his friends from Skull Panda and the Warunimal Empire.

Okay, the Panda Z isn’t quite as awe-inspiring…

After a rather slow start Eureka Seven is quickly becoming one of my favourite UK DVD releases of the year. The storyline is well and truly in full swing in its third volume so those of us who gave it…

IGPX is the international sport of Immortal Grand Prix, a combination of racing and in-race battles popular in the lavish future societies of this anime by the same name.

The rules are as such: …

The typical ‘reluctant hero meets desperate town in need, doesn’t care but is slowly won over by one town member, who – half for personal reasons and half for her sake – he fights for’…

In the first volume of Gundam SEED Destiny, we’ve had three secret shiny new giant robots get hijacked from their secret base. They’ve then been chased by another secret shiny new combining mech…

Okay, so what exactly do we have here?

That was the first question I asked myself at the beginning of the first episode of Panda Z. It tells the story of Pan-Taron, pilot of the giant robot Panda Z and…

It seems that the long-running Gundam franchise is enjoying something of a boom here in the UK. It wasn’t too long ago that fans were bemoaning on how completely we had been deprived, having to content…

By the year 2002, giant construction robots called labors have become commonplace, and the police have their own unit to counter labor-related crime – the Special Vehicles Section. Now though,…

The second outing of Eureka Seven sees our hapless hero Renton at the receiving end of some cruel pranks courtesy of Eureka’s three children that lands him in hot water. This is followed by a mission…

And so after three arcs and eighty-five episodes the final battle at Reflex Point marks the end of the Robotech saga, at least for now. Scott Bernard and his friends encounter more interesting …

Aside the fact that new mecha series have been few and far between lately, Eureka Seven can raise viewer expectations to levels that threaten serious disappointment. The credits for instance…

These days it seems you can’t move for remakes of old stuff. Hollywood hasn’t had an original idea in years, relying on a constant stream of rehashes and adaptations of old properties,…