The showdown in the bowling alley comes to a dramatic conclusion while Maya begins to recount her early days at the school with Team Katana and its leader (incidently, her brother) Shin Natsume.…
I really loved the first half of Gungrave – the mafia politics, the emphasis on love and friendship, the way the characters gradually changed over decades, their ambitions twisting and turning.…
Having travelled up from their underground city at the centre of the world, Ichise and the Doc look upon Earth’s surface world for the very first time – this episode is called “Heaven…
Following the gruelling training and all the other trouble they’ve had to put up with from the Student Council, the members of the Juuken Club decide to unwind at the local bowling alley.…
Still staggering his way through Trigun’s dangerous Old West, it’s now got the point where merely Vash’s fleeting presence is enough to level an entire town. Unable to hide…
Section Two has had its fair share of both successes and failures, but now the fledgling department faces its biggest problem yet- the murder of cyborg Elsa de Sica and her handler Lauro. Whilst…
By name and by nature, Brandon Heat is now Beyond the Grave. Murdered by his best friend 13 years previous and resurrected hours after the shooting of the love of his life Maria, Beyond the Grave …
With the first volume of Gunslinger Girl making a strong first impression, it remained to be seen whether the series could go on to maintain the high standard it had set for itself. Fortunately,…
With the Yoshii story arc having firmly concluded in the last volume, one would be forgiven for thinking Texhnolyze had drawn to a premature end. This entire series though is about “the …
Souichiro Nagi and his sidekick Bob Makihara are two teenage street fighters who travel from school to school, beating their rivals as they go. When they take on the students of Todo Academy and…
Volume 6 of Trigun sees us nearing the end for Vash, but first, we are treated to an emotional flashback from his beginnings. Vash and his twin brother Knives are like two sides of the same person;…
And so ends another Satoshi Kon masterpiece, another befuddling mixture of fractured story telling, surreal visuals and subversive social commentary. Paranoia Agent sure is intensely thought…
The series reaches its conclusion as Hideki discovers the truth concerning Chi’s origins. Is she really one of the “Chobits’ series? Meanwhile Chi realises that she must…
Chobits reaches its penultimate instalment as Chi is kidnapped by person or persons unknown. Could this be somehow connected to the speculation that she may be a member of the Chobits series? …
Henrietta and Jose are fratello (siblings), but not in the conventional sense of the word. A terminal patient “saved’ by the Italian Social Welfare Agency, Henrietta was the recipient…
Featuring three stand alone episodes with the only recognisable face being that of the distorted Shounen Bat, Paranoia Agent #3 is none the less a successful ride through the realms of the weird…
The original Vampire Hunter D OVA, based on the manga series by Hideyuki Kikuchi, is considered a classic by fans of animated horror. However, twenty years after its release there is no denying…
When fifteen year old Kamui Shiro returns to Tokyo after a six year absence, he has just one goal in mind- fulfilling a promise to protect his childhood friends Fuma and Kotori. Much as he would like…
If there is a volume that encapsulates everything that makes Gungrave such a fine series, it is this one. This is Brandon Heat’s tragic closing night, the promised implosion of friendship…
As part of a film studio’s seventieth anniversary, film maker Genya Tachibana travels to interview one of his idols: the retired actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has lived as a recluse since…
