Anime Review

Bleach Volume 6

Bleach Season 3 Part 02 Episodes 54-63

‘Taking On the Afterlife, One Soul At a Time’

As episode 54 begins, it looks as if all Ichigo’s efforts will have been for nothing. Rukia’s execution…

• 25th January 2010
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Blue Dragon Volume 5

Blue Dragon: Volumes 5 & 6

Re-awaken your inner ten-year-old!

(Beware; there may be a couple of spoilers…)

Shu and his fellow Shadow Wielders are on the trail of the thief who stole the Extra…

• 9th October 2009
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Blue Dragon Volume 3

Young Shu – whose dream in life is to become a Knight Master – has left his village to travel with Zola, a female Shadow Wielder, and her apprentice Jiro, in her quest to defeat the evil tyrant Nene.…

• 3rd August 2009
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Bleach Volume 4

Bleach is liked, by the majority of those who like it, I would imagine, for its successful underlying formula (which is equally apparent in Naruto); moving almost haphazardly between scenes …

• 21st March 2009
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Naruto: Naruto Unleashed 4:2

Tsunade, anxious over the question of whether to acquiesce to Orochimaru’s bargain or not (and equally torn over whether to become the next Hokage), here becomes centripetal in the early…

• 12th February 2009
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Naruto: Naruto Unleashed 4:1

Bringing yet another series of episodes – one arc in the story – to a close, and laying the groundwork for the next, volume 4.1 exhibits the lull between action scenes and storytelling…

• 7th February 2009
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Saiyuki: Reload Volume 7

“There isn’t any way that we can win.”

The Sanzo party have fought ‘god’ – and lost. Badly injured, they have just only escaped his castle with their lives. Worst of all, ‘god’ has taken the precious…

• 28th September 2008
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Saiyuki: Reload Volume 6

The unlikely quartet of warriors for the forces of good, the Sanzo party (gun-toting priest Genjyo Sanzo, irrepressible monkey boy Son Goku, chain-smoking, womanizing kappa Sha Gojyo, and…

• 21st September 2008
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Naruto: Naruto Uncut 3:2

Sasuke has finally arrived at the finals of the Chunin exam, albeit in an untimely fashion (being mere seconds from disqualification), this doesn’t really bother anyone in a significant…

• 9th August 2008
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Naruto: Naruto Uncut 3:1

With the preliminary rounds of the Chuunin exam over, Naruto and the other qualifiers are given time to prepare for the finals, with a chance to train and learn new techniques before their respective…

• 5th August 2008
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Bleach Volume 3

The third volume of Bleach commences with Ichigo, Yoruichi and their friends arriving at the Soul Society in order to save Rukia from her planned execution.

Entering the Rukongai district; a …

• 9th July 2008
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Bleach Volume 2

Concluding the first series of one of the biggest anime in years, Bleach 1:2 runs right on from the precedent set in the first volume, seeing the resolution to Ichigo’s conflict with classmate…

• 6th April 2008
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Bleach Volume 1

Bleach is the latest in animes most prolific genre – the shonen – which typically means action and a touch of comedy to keep things light, but which, in the tradition of the Dragonball…

• 3rd April 2008
Anime Review

Naruto: Naruto Unleashed 2:2

After fighting their way through their teacher’s personal tests, the paper exam and the Forest of Death, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke – the members of Squad Seven – find themselves…

• 17th November 2007
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Area 88

Here’s a blast from the past: anyone remember the old game UN Squadron? It was a side-scrolling shooter on the SNES in the style of Gradius and R-Type, but had real planes instead of fancy spaceships,…

• 9th October 2007
Anime Review

Naruto: Naruto Unleashed 2:1

Back with a new opening theme that might just drive you insane if you actually listen to it, Naruto returns as eccentric as ever, with Team 7 (Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura) entering the second stage…

• 13th June 2007