Anime Review

Redline

Through happy coincidence, I ended up watching Redline the same week as I did Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. Both are adamantly hand-drawn throwbacks defying the computer-oriented…

• 13th November 2011
Anime Review

Highschool of the Dead

Supernatural creations are everywhere in anime and manga. Ghosts often feature, demons are dime a dozen. There are more vampires then you shake a particularly pointy stick at. Zombies, on the…

• 23rd August 2011
News

Latest Madhouse Project Revealed

Madhouse Studios (Redline, Summer Wars) have revealed information on their adaptation of a popular light novel by the name, Recollection of a Certain Professional Airship, published in 2008.…

• 29th April 2011
Anime Review

Summer Wars

The release of Summer Wars at the end of March can’t come soon enough for some anime fans. It is, after all, the latest work from director Mamoru Hosoda who directed The Girl Who Leapt Through…

• 14th March 2011
News

X-Men Anime Promo Release

The Japanese Animax television channel has launched a website for Marvel’s new X-Men anime adaption by MADHOUSE, with the first promo. The anime will be starting on the Animax channel …

• 20th February 2011
Anime Review

Pet Shop of Horrors

Horror is an intriguing and vast genre as its meaning changes depending on the person perceiving it. We all have our own personal view of what horror is and what haunts us in our nightmares. For example;…

• 8th August 2010
Anime Review

X TV Volume 5

Variations on the theme of the inevitability of destiny…

  It’s a little unfortunate that ‘Wish,’ the first episode on this disc, is basically a resume of what’s gone before, as first Kakyo…

• 27th April 2010
Anime Review

X TV Volume 4

“The truth is there’s no way for everyone to be…happy.” Subaru Sumeragi

The theme of the granting of wishes runs through CLAMP’s work like a recurrent melody (see Yuko’s shop in ‘xxxHolic’) and…

• 31st March 2010
Anime Review

X TV Volume 3

“The future has not been determined yet…”

A young man in a long white coat is on a train journey. Alighting at a small country station, he walks past red-clad shrine statues. No one else is about. …

• 10th January 2010
Anime Review

X TV Volume 2

An apocalyptic battle is fated to take place in contemporary Tokyo between the Dragons of Heaven (the Seven Seals who have been born to protect the Earth) and the Dragons of Earth (the Seven Angels…

• 14th November 2009
Anime Review

X TV Volume 1

‘Two Choices. Two Sides. One Future. X’

Kakyo is a dream seer. Too ill to leave his bed, the young man is forced to lie still, attached by tubes and wires to the machines that keep him alive. He lives…

• 1st November 2009