History was always a favourite subject of mine at school, and still is, as my part-time profession clearly shows. So I was really interested to review the second boxset of one of the series …
“Ethnic jokes might be uncouth, but you laugh because they’re based on truth.” – ‘Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist’; Avenue Q
The time is World War I, and we join Germany discovering…
Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students. The Day Class is filled with blissfully ignorant humans, unaware of the evil lurking in their school with their biggest concern being the up-coming…
Before the well known anime hit Japanese TV’s in 2001, there was another adaptation of the boy’s love manga, Gravitation, in the form of an OVA in 1999. Animated by a completely different company…
Disc 3 takes a dive into Zero’s past whilst also introducing us to the first season’s main antagonist. Starting with episode 8; we’re given more flesh to the vampire folklore as Takuma’s grandfather…
Hetalia: Axis powers series 2 DVD release date has been pushed back to April 11th of this year. The DVD was originaly to be released on February 7th 2011.
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Disc 2 of the Vampire Knight anime contains 3 episodes that mostly serve as flashbacks, padding out the back story to our 3 main characters and the origins of the school the story is set in.
Almost…
Since their debut into fiction in Bram Broker’s 1897 novel, Dracula; vampires have been envisioned and redesigned by multiple different writers, film makers, artists and imaginations across…
“There must be something wrong with me – I’m giving advice to a person I want to kill.” Archer to Shirou Emiya
Beneath a moonlit sky, Saber confronts the swordsman guarding Ryudou Temple. He reveals…
“I’m just gonna check this out; it’s probably nothing…” Shirou Emiya
Relations between unwilling Master, Shirou Emiya, and his Servant, the warrior maiden Saber, are distinctly strained. …
Two shadowy figures are engaged in a violent battle as an inferno rages through the centre of a city far below. A young boy wanders through rain-soaked devastation; the last thing he sees before…
Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!
I really should have taken detailed notes when watching these seven episodes. Because, having complained that the previous disc left viewers with too many unanswered…
“What’s going on? Somebody tell me!”
Yuya’s cry of confusion at the start of episode 13 just about sums up how I feel after watching Volume 2 of ‘Samurai Deeper…
“You heard it too, didn’t you? The voice of the wind…”
1600 AD. A fog-shrouded battlefield…the distant cries of dying men…and as the swirling fog parts, two samurai warriors are revealed,…
Love – the one force that simply won’t be denied.
Young singer Shuichi Shindou’s hopes and dreams//aspirations are constantly being raised higher – only to be cruelly dashed. Just as his group…
Love – the one force that simply won’t be denied.
Shuichi Shindo, the pink-haired vocalist of the up-and-coming band Bad Luck, has fallen in love with Eiri Yuki, the charismatic but cold-hearted…
Years ago, when I was at school, an openly gay friend let me borrow Gravitation, and it was quite timely, so I’m glad to have the chance to look at it again, to own the English release, and finally…
The thirteenth episodes of ‘tactics’ ended on an ominous note as the sinister Raiko Minamoto revealed his plan to break the pact between exorcist and folklorist Kantaro and his companion Haruka…
Who hasn’t longed at some time for a magical and powerful companion to rescue them from the dreariness of everyday life? Kantaro Ichinomiya has dreamed since boyhood of finding and setting free…
When priceless Beethoven manuscripts start disappearing around the world, Section A of the British Library Special Operations are assigned to retrieve them and track down those responsible.…
