In New Port city everything, it seems, is connected. Information, like consumer technology, is everywhere. Almost everybody enjoys a certain level of cybernetic enhancement. Citizens sport…
As the fifth volume of this series left a great impression on me, I was excited to watch the last episodes of Desert Punk and to see how everything unfolds leading up to the finale. In the end it left…
How a series ends is important. Perhaps more important even than how it begins. The final moments of a show are key to how it will be remembered. It’s impossible to please all of the people …
If there’s one anime studio that I seem to be ignoring at the moment, it’s Gonzo – unless you count the multiple times I’ve seen Linkin Park’s music video for “Breaking…
It used to be that every male Japanese Otaku worth his salt wanted nothing more than to pilot his own giant robot. Then later it became their ultimate fantasy to be surrounded by a harem of adoring…
So here we are at the end of line, as the war between humanity and their enemies, the Shadow Angels, heads toward its conclusion! But before the final battle in the Shadow Angels’ realm of Atlandia,…
Beginning in 1985 as a graphic novel and continuing sporadically thereafter, Masamune Shirow’s tales of urban combat and political unrest in a hi-tech utopia have persisted in the affections…
Gainax have shown time and again that they can take a genre and create something that plays fast and loose with the rules and Mahoromatic is one such series. In this case, the show takes the conventions…
After a number of false starts and near misses, the past few years have finally seen the first Hollywood big-screen adaptations of anime and manga. However it hasn’t been the most audacious…
BALDR Force EXE is one of those peculiar beasts. Based on the plot of a Japanese video game series, you’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes and swiftly moving on, but there’s a good deal more to this…
When a show has such heavyweight talents behind it as those named in Aquarion’s opening credits, you can’t help but have high expectations for it.
Let’s get this thing straight from the word go:…
ATTENTION: Spoilers below!
What can I say about this volume of ‘Parasyte’ other than “page turner”? This volume, I believe, actually has Iwaaki capturing the essence…
Hitoshi Iwaaki continues to impress in this next volume of ‘parasyte’ by continuing to plunge his protagonist into a series of devilishly drawn out duels with human and Parasyte…
This review will contain spoilers of a salient kind! Do not read any further if you do not wish to know them!
It feels really good to be coming back, after some time, to review the fourth volume of ‘Parasyte’.…
“Listen, I know a real champion of justice. He never ran away… He fought against evil all by himself. He was my best friend…”
It is the summer of 1969, and young Kenji Endo…
“Reality TV” Ron Simon, an American Television Studies academic, says “could be posited as the first post-modern genre, where nothing-identity, lifestyle, or relationships-is fixed; everything…
Alive: The Final Evolution, from Del Rey, reaches its 6th volume here. This supernatural/sci-fi series is pitched at age 16+ and so far has been a thrilling read. Volume 6 continues the story…
‘Vexille’ is one of a number of anime being produced with CGI as opposed to conventional cell drawn animation and is a scrumptious example of what exactly can be done with CG animation.…
Chapters #16 – #19 of Alive: The Final Evolution are presented here in volume #5. Thus far, Del Rey’s supernatural/sci-fi series has had its highs and lows. It is not very original, and its post-apocalyptic…
After reading the first three volumes of Alive, it quickly threatened to become one of my favourite mangas. The third volume in particular was really compelling and I couldn’t wait to get…
