Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Volume 2
If you spotted my previous review of the first half of Muv Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse, you’ll recall that I was pretty pleasantly surprised by it. The mix of gnarly, full-on aliens-versus-mecha…
Captain Earth Volume 2
Episodes 14-25
“They are a magnetic levitation high mobility Impactor set to chaotic mode.”
The indestructible Kill-T-Gang and the Designer Children, under the command of Setsuna/Lady Siren,…
A Certain Scientific Railgun
“Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it had been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed in it.”…
Sword Art Online II Volume 1
Warning: may contain spoilers.
“Happiness is a warm gun Happiness is a warm gun, mama When I hold you in my arms And I feel my finger on your trigger I know nobody can do me no harm” –…
009 Re:Cyborg
All across the world, unnamed terrorists have been destroying skyscrapers and causing death on an unimaginable scale. Seventeen-year-old Joe Shimamura, influenced by ‘His Voice’, is about…
A Certain Magical Index
“The Lord said to my Lord, Sit in honour at my right hand until I humble your enemies beneath your feet.” – Matthew 22:44.
In the futuristic Academy City, studies are taking …
Knights of Sidonia
“What is it that haunts space where matter is found?” – Arthur Eddington.
The year is 3394 A.D. A thousand years have passed since a race of gigantic aliens known as the Gauna…
Inuyashiki Volume 1
“The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” – T. S. Eliot
The front cover of this…
Space Dandy 2
‘Space Dandy! He’s a dandy guy… in space.’
Searching for rare aliens in the vastness of space, on his spaceship the Aloha Oe, the cooler than cool Dandy and his two sidekicks Meow the Betelgeusian…
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Volume 1
Ever had a show really toy with your expectations? As in, your preconceptions of it got dragged one way, then another, and then in a different direction altogether when you actually saw it?
This…
Captain Earth Volume 1
‘When I opened the door called truth, my childhood ended. It was a summer I could never forget.’
High school student Daichi returns to Tanegashima Island (where his father died working for the …
Dragon Ball Z Kai Volume 1
Episodes 1-26
Earth is in danger. A brutal alien warrior – with a tail! – arrives, searching for his brother, Kakarot. He has a scouter device which enables him to seek out Earth’s strongest warriors…
Tiger & Bunny: The Rising
The annual Justice Day festival is about to take place in Stern Bild City, commemorating the legend of the city’s origins and the terrible punishment meted out to the first inhabitants by the goddess…
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.” – Psalms 107: 23-24.
There are many loose…
Tony Takezaki’s Neon Genesis Evangelion
“He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.” – Bertolt Brecht.
Every anime fan will be aware of the fact this is year which Neon Genesis Evangelion takes place. The year…
Parasyte: The Maxim
The manga series Parasyte (Hitoshi Awaaki) was launched in 1988 and concluded in 1995. Twenty years after finishing its run in afternoon magazine Parasyte was finally awarded its own anime…
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Volume 1
“Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.”…
Gatchaman Crowds
“Bird, go!”
Tachikawa City, 2015. A boy genius, Rui Ninomiya, has created GALAX, an altruistic interactive IT system with which he hopes to change the world – for the better. The CROWDS is the …
Harlock Space Pirate
“What is it that haunts space where matter is found?” – Arthur Eddington
Leiji Matusmoto is the creator of many great sci-fi anime of the 1970s: Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy…