Anime Review

Tetsujin 28 Volume 2

The first volume of Tetsujin 28 was a pleasant surprise, and I found a lot to like with its mix of retro-styled mecha action and penchant for the dramatic. It’s fair to say I had high expectations…

• 12th September 2006
Anime Review

Twin Signal

Even in a time where we get the newest and hottest titles almost straight from Japan, it’s nice to see companies releasing older classics along with the young guns. So seeing Twin Signal …

• 20th August 2006
Anime Review

Patlabor

Whenever you hear mecha fans talk about their favourite examples of the genre, Patlabor is one name that always manages to come up. Achieving the delicate balance of giant robot action, human …

• 7th August 2006
Anime Review

Robotech: The Masters Volume 2

The battle between humanity and the Robotech Masters reaches its dramatic conclusion as the final battle that decides the war begins in earnest. The Fifteenth Squadron risk capture and death…

• 7th June 2006
Anime Review

Robotech: The Masters Volume 1

Fifteen years after the first Robotech war the people of Earth are rebuilding their shattered civilisation. The planet is thrown into conflict once more when the Robotech Masters arrive to reclaim…

• 20th May 2006
Anime Review

Tetsujin 28 Volume 1

Towards the end of World War II, Professor Kaneda put the finishing touches to a terrifying new weapon, but vowed to never allow it to be unleashed. Several years later it is inadvertedly reawakened…

• 4th May 2006
Anime Review

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Volume 9

As the battlefield moves to space, the crew of the Archangel find themselves caught between the two warring sides. With the Earth forces gathering all the forces they can at the moon, and ZAFT continuously…

• 17th April 2006
Anime Review

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Volume 8

The war rages on as Kira returns to Earth with his new mobile suit, the Freedom Gundam. After the Archangel and her crew escaped the Federation’s trap at JOSH-A, they are branded deserters…

• 28th March 2006
Anime Review

Robotech: Remastered Volume 3

As the Zentraedi launch the final assault on the SDF-1 there is discontent in their ranks and the hope of a truce between their forces and those of Earth. Just when peace seems to be a realistic prospect,…

• 1st March 2006
Anime Review

Robotech: Remastered Volume 2

After doing battle with the alien forces the SDF-1 finally makes it home but the Earth government have yet to break the news of the alien threat to the general public. As another wave of Zentraedi…

• 15th December 2005
Anime Review

RahXephon

To call Rahxephon a, summarily captivating mecha adventure, or an existential science fiction drama, would be to sell the series short, excruciatingly so. This is the kind of show that defies…

• 13th December 2005
Anime Review

Appleseed (1988)

Following a long and bitter worldwide war the city of Olympus is created as a Utopia: the prototype for a perfect society. Many of its citizens are “Biodroids’ (sic), clones who are…

• 5th December 2005
Anime Review

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

2005 marks the year that I discovered Yoshiyuki Tomino’s fabled Mobile Suit Gundam; it is rare to find a space opera with a story as far reaching as this, with characters, cultures and technologies…

• 26th November 2005
Anime Review

Mobile Suit Gundam F91

Regardless of how long you’ve been an anime fan I daresay you will have come across Mobile Suit Gundam in ones of its many incarnations at one time or another. Widely regarded as Japan’s…

• 12th November 2005