Manga Review
Touring After the Apocalypse Volume 1 Review
A nice little trip around Japan - while the entire country crumbles.
Manga Review
Robo Sapiens: Tales of Tomorrow Review
A selection of interconnected short stories about the evolutionary rise of robots as human civilization declines over thousands of years.
Manga Review
Clover: Collector’s Edition Review
CLAMP's stark, minimalist cyberpunk work is now out as an extra large, hardback edition.
Manga Review
Neo Parasyte f Review
The best contributions in Neo Parasyte f are strange and compelling, making this unusual collection of short stories well worth reading, especially if you’re a fan of Hitoshi Iwaaki’s original work.
Anime Review
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ Part 1 Review
As with Zeta Gundam, you feel that the second half of Mobile Suit ZZ Gundam is going to be the more exciting one.
Anime Review
Serial Experiments Lain – The Complete Series Review
With a lot of series, I would point to the writers or directors and put in brackets their most famous work, but Serial Experiments Lain IS the most famous work of writer Chiaki J. Konaka, character…
Anime Review
Aldnoah.Zero – Season 2
Aldnoah.Zero, the entirely original anime by Gen Urobuchi of Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero and Psycho-Pass fame, reappears in its second season, but does it make good on the shocking end to…
Anime Review
The Transformers – The Movie 30th Anniversary Edition
The classic, and often controversial, theatrical special of the original Transformers cartoon is now 30 years old and Manga have released the restored version on Blu-ray, but does the film still…
Film Review
The Place Promised in Our Early Days / Voices of a Distant Star Twin Pack Review
Makoto Shinkai is currently known as the director of 2016’s biggest Japanese animated film, Your Name. But many years prior he was a beloved director of shorter, more unconventional pieces, …
Anime Review
Gundam Reconguista in G Review
“About time!” screamed Gundam fans when Gundam Reconguista in G was announced. Yoshiyuki Tomino, the man behind the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam series, was returning to write and direct…
Anime Review
Yurikuma Arashi Review
“Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.” – James Rollins
It rather rare to see a yuri anime released in the UK. I, for one, don’t recall ever…
Anime Review
Psycho-Pass The Movie Review
Due to the huge success of the Sibyl System, a surveillance and biological monitoring system that gauges the likelihood that individuals will commit a crime before they do so, Japan has begun …
Anime Review
Review of Assassination Classroom: Season 1, Part 2
The second half of the first series of this comic show about students trying to murder their monstrous, tentacled teacher Koro-Sensei, begins with an entirely different sort of battle.
Film Review
The Empire of Corpses Review
Project Ito may seem like a studio name but it’s actually a synonym for Satoshi Ito, a Japanese science fiction writer who produced four novels before his passing in 2009. Most of his books have…
Manga Review
Immortal Hounds Volume 1
In an alternate reality Earth, humans cannot be killed. Even if they are shot in head or stabbed in the heart, they will instantly revive in perfect health. However, a disease is spreading, RDS,…
Manga Review
Queen Emeraldas – Volume 1
Leiji Matsumoto is one of those names that you hear all the time when you start getting into anime and manga, often in sentences that start with “classic authors like…” His most famous works include…
Anime Review
Punch Line Review
‘If he [Yuta] sees underwear, humanity will be destroyed!?’Yuta is on a bus. The bus has been hijacked and is about to crash. Super girl Strange Juice comes to the rescue. But then terrified Yuta…
Anime Review
Parasyte -the maxim- Collection 2 Review
Parasyte -the maxim-, the anime adaptation of Hitoshi Iwaaki’s late 80s/early 90s manga, returns for its concluding half. When we saw Shinichi last he had just come to terms with one tragic loss,…
Anime Review
Future Diary – Part 2 Review
This review will contain spoilers for Future Diary – Part 1
The game to win the title of God is still afoot, and all major players seem to have their eye on eliminating Yuki Amano first and foremost.…