Anime Review

Kabukimonogatari

Travelling back in time always has unforeseen consequences – as third-year high school student Koyomi Araragi (Hiroshi Kamiya) should realize. But when he asks vampire girl Shinobu Oshino …

• 10th January 2015
Anime Review

Nekomonogatari White

The awaited Monogatari Season 2 is now upon us and to start us off is the continuation of Tsubasa Hanekawa story in Nekomonogatari White. This arc yet again shows what the series does best and is …

• 22nd December 2014
Anime Review

Nekomonogatari Black

We head back into the past with the prequel to Bakemonogatari, the 4-episode OVA Nekomonogatari Black. Given the slight disappointment of Nisemonogatari, will this show deliver more of what…

• 18th December 2014
Anime Review

Nisemonogatari : DVD Review

While I found the first half of Nisemonogartari entertaining, there were problems with a lack of character development for Araragi’s sister Karen during her own arc and the large amounts…

• 8th November 2014
Anime Review

Nisemonogatari : DVD Review

“Just as you fill your heart through good deeds, I fill my bank account with evil ones” – Kaiki

The next chapter in the Monogatari franchise, Nisemonogatari, attempts to build on the clever…

• 11th May 2014
Anime Review

Bakemonogatari: DVD Review

With the conclusion of the Suruga Monkey arc at the end of the Part 1 box set, we proceed into the last two arcs in Part 2 and the end of a well-made series – but do these couple of stories make …

• 3rd May 2014
Anime Review

Arakawa Under the Bridge 2

In the little community living under the bridge beside the River Arakawa, even an ordinary game of baseball can turn into something distinctly out of the ordinary. When Kou Ichinomiya, the fine,…

• 9th December 2013
Anime Review

Arakawa Under the Bridge

‘Never be indebted to anyone.’ (The Ichinomiya family motto.)

Kou Ichinomiya knows that he is perfect; intelligent, handsome and he’s already running his own companies while still …

• 12th November 2013
Anime Review

Bakemonogatari Volume 1

It’s rare that you see a massive-selling title in the recent anime scene in Japan, unless it’s something like Haruhi or Gundam. However back in 2009, a little anime show called Bakemonogatari…

• 17th July 2013