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
Anime Review

Chobits Volume 1

Based on the CLAMP manga of the same name, Chobits is set in a world in which computers take the form of human-like companions called “persocoms’ that have become a commonplace sight…

• 17th April 2005
Anime Review

Gunbuster: Aim for the Top

The story of “Gunbuster’ follows the career of Noriko Takaya, the daughter of a legendary International Space Force pilot. Following his death in battle, she enrols at a training…

• 6th April 2005
Anime Review

Cowboy Bebop Volume 2

As much as I love to eulogise about Cowboy Bebop, there really isn’t much I can comment on from volume to volume without running the risk of repeating myself. By now, you should know that this…

• 2nd April 2005