If you spotted my previous review of the first half of Muv Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse, you’ll recall that I was pretty pleasantly surprised by it. The mix of gnarly, full-on aliens-versus-mecha…
Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student living in Tokyo with an innocent crush on a girl he meets at his local café, Rize Kamishiro. After plucking up the courage to ask her out, he finds the date…
“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…
Ever had a show really toy with your expectations? As in, your preconceptions of it got dragged one way, then another, and then in a different direction altogether when you actually saw it?
This…
Garden of Sinners was originally a light novel series released in Japan in the late 90s from Type Moon; it’s not only their earliest work but also considered the ‘prototype’ for their other more…
I had a lot of concerns going into the final film of this trilogy, most of which came from my fear of there being missing content everywhere from the manga, a concern I found dissipated quite swiftly…
This review contains spoilers from the first part.
“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese.
The first collection…
Episodes 5 – 12 (Warning: this review contains spoilers from the first paragraph)
It is the final episode of Tokyo Ghoul. Things are looking bad for Ken Kaneki because he is in the middle …
“There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
Attack on Titan has become a huge phenomenon since it began in 2009: scary, gripping,…
“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 …
Episodes 1 – 4
“It was a colossal and nameless blasphemy with glaring red eyes, and it held in bony claws a thing that had been a man, gnawing at the head as a child nibbles at a stick of candy. Its position…
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 …
In 1972, a student named Misaki suddenly died halfway through the school year. With the class too devastated to handle it, they pretended that she was still alive and well all the way up till graduation,…
Futaba Kazuma is an 18 year old college student, learning clinical psychology whilst living in a mansion which the neighbours claim is ‘haunted’. Apart from the butler, the only other person …
“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…
After a quick set of flashbacks to remind you of the events from the first film, The Battle of Doldrey wastes no time in getting straight back into the action. Flying heads are everywhere as you’d…
In the quiet little provincial backwater of Inaba, it seems that the murderer may still be still at large. And even as Yu and his Scooby Gang friends experience the rites of passage that every manga/anime…
“Once you’re dead, you’re made for life.” – Jimi Hendrix.
There is a theory called “Meme theory”, which states that ideas have a life of their own,…
If you go to your local DVD store and head to the anime section, it’s not uncommon to see anime versions of Western films, video games or comics, such as Batman: Gotham Knight, Dead Space: …
Back in the early noughties, the original Hellsing was a big hit. The 2001 TV series was a lot of fun, and overcame the occasionally wonky animation (from the notoriously occasionally wonky Studio…
