Anime Review

.hack// SIGN

Since its release in 2007, the CC Corporation’s MMORPG, “The World”, has attracted players in their thousands. For the player known as Tsukasa, though, “The World”…

• 19th July 2005
Anime Review

Trigun Volume 4

It is make or break for Trigun, as the show trudges ever closer to the halfway mark. Can the series leave behind the droll filler that plagued earlier instalments and at long last deliver the kind…

• 18th July 2005
Anime Review

Cowboy Bebop Volume 5

It’s a sobering thought to suddenly realize there is now only one volume left of Cowboy Bebop. Us long suffering UK fans had waited so long for this fated series, to see the timeless phrase…

• 14th July 2005
Anime Review

Stratos 4 Volume 2

Whilst I derided Stratos 4’s lack of excitement in my review of volume one, I still found the show to be a pleasant distraction. With the prior volume ending on something of a cliff hanger …

• 11th July 2005
Anime Review

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Volume 1

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED is a series with a healthy reputation. Since debuting in Japan during 2002, it has succeeded in revitalizing the failing Gundam franchise and spawned a new generation …

• 10th July 2005
Anime Review

Macross Plus

When hot-headed fighter pilot Isamu Dyson is posted to his home planet of Eden as a test pilot in a test programme for the latest combat aircraft, he finds himself working alongside old acquaintance…

• 8th July 2005
Anime Review

Dai Guard

It is the year 2030, twelve years ago the world was ravaged by a mysterious enemy known only as the Heterodynes. The army commissioned the creation of Dai-Guard a giant fighting robot to defeat …

• 27th June 2005
Anime Review

Cowboy Bebop Volume 4

Cowboy Bebop #4 is the most character driven volume of this series yet, with no less than three of these four episodes being devoted to fleshing out the eventful back stories of flaky bombshell …

• 23rd June 2005
Anime Review

Blue Gender: The Warrior

No one knows where they came from, some sightings date as far back as 2017. But during the year 2031 mankind was all but extinguished by this savage new lifeform.Known simply as The Blue, these horrific,…

• 14th June 2005
Anime Review

Chobits Volume 2

Country boy Hideki has a lot on his mind. Despite studying hard to get into college and working all hours at his part time job he is still worried about his upcoming exams and is desperately short …

• 13th June 2005
Anime Review

Texhnolyze Volume 1

In a brooding, unsympathetic and bleak future, Texhnolyze documents humanity’s sheer visceral will to survive. Even as Mankind has hit an evolutionary grave-stone, there are people…

• 9th June 2005
Anime Review

Trigun Volume 3

After the mild disappointment of volume 2 this instalment in the Trigun series has a lot to live up to, will it up the ante and finally see the series kick into high gear or will it be another helping…

• 2nd June 2005
Anime Review

Stratos 4 Volume 1

Stratos 4 follows the lives of four young  “Meteor Sweepers’ pilots who defend the earth from an all too common asteroid problem. They are part of a defence force created solely with…

• 1st June 2005
Anime Review

New Dominion Tank Police

I was extremely pleased when Manga announced this release, I still have fond memories of those insomnia stricken nights when I’d wile away the hours watching Tank Police on the Sci-Fi channel. …

• 27th May 2005
Anime Review

Cowboy Bebop Volume 3

For a number of reasons, I’ve found Cowboy Bebop #3 hard to review; mainly due to its episodic nature, I have to be weary not to repeat what I wrote before.By now, we should have established…

• 22nd May 2005
Anime Review

Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040

Set in a futuristic Tokyo rebuilt after a devastating earthquake, “Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040′ centres around the mysterious band of high-tech female vigilantes known as the…

• 18th May 2005
Anime Review

Kiddy Grade Volume 8

It says a lot about my opinion of Kiddy Grade when I find myself struggling to summon up the energy to just sit down and endure these final three episodes, such is my utter indifference to this terribly…

• 11th May 2005