19 May, 2013

Some horror thrives on understatement: the unexplained noise, a fleeting shadow, unsettling whispers. Hellsing Ultimate is having none of that – the eagerly-awaited Volume 5-8 Collection dials the action up to eleven with a rip-roaring, eye-popping, adrenaline-crazed orgy of action as Alucard, Integra and Seras battle undead Nazis and fanatical priests in...

21 May, 2013

Majikoi-Oh! Samurai Girls comes exploding out of the gate with an action packed first episode. Class 2-F and 2-S of Kawakami Academy are settling their differences in a massive battle (using prop weapons that don’t kill but still hurt a whole lot). Yamato Naoe is 2-F’s tactician, and has prepared a number of strategies for dealing with his opponents,...

18 May, 2013

With a title like Loups=Garous staring out at you, the first thing you’ll want to know about is the werewolves. Are they nice and big and hairy? Do they howl at the moon, fangs dripping gore? All mighty good questions. But wait a sec, we’d better fill you in on the story, hadn’t we? It’s set in a post-apocalyptic future where humanity...

13 May, 2013

  “I’m sure you’ll love it, it’s just like…” One of the easiest ways to recommend a show to anyone is to cite something it resembles. More even perhaps than western TV, anime is built on the reuse and reinvention of ideas, each one tweaked and modified into new shapes. The shonen battle show, the romantic comedy, the...

11 May, 2013

The city of Stern Bild has individuals with great power, called NEXT, a number of whom dress up as superheroes and fight the bad guys, on the prime time TV show “Hero TV”. It’s a fresh take on the superhero genre and we really enjoyed the first volume released (see our review here). The last volume left us with the revelation of a NEXT calling himself...