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DVD Review: Ga-Rei-Zero Collection
A prequel to the popular manga by Hajime Segawa!
This anime series comes with an extra tag line of will you kill someone you love, because of love? And that is an interesting question to ask, even after seeing the first couple of episodes. Love can mean anything here, friendship, the love of being in a relationship, or the love of a brother or sister. The first disc is more about Toru, Kagura and Yomi, as their love for each other is what can be either their salvation or their undoing.
Ghost Hunt could be the nearest series to this one with its team of paranormal investigators going deeper into the dangerous world of spirits, Read more…
DVD Review: Blue Exorcist Part 2 – Episodes 14 – 25
Rin defies his Hellish heritage and enrols at the True Cross Academy, determined to become the world’s strongest exorcist.!
Blue Exorcist Part 2 is the final collection of Manga Entertainment’s release of the popular shounen anime title. It covers episodes 14 to 25 and it features an increase in macabre monsters, creepy characters and awesome action as the show reaches its climax.
At the end of the first collection 15-year-old Rin Okumura and his new-found friends at the True Cross Academy have advanced a level in their Exorcist training to the rank of Ex-Wires. Rin and his Read more…
DVD Review: Needless Part 1 Episodes 1-12
An anime series about a group of post-holocaust survivors with extraordinary powers!
It is the year 2130, 50 years after the catastrophic events of World War III. Where Tokyo once stood, there is now a nuclear contaminated hole full of rubble and destruction, known as ‘The Black Spot’. Now populated by refugees and outcasts, many of The Black Spot’s inhabitants have developed special powers ranging from telekinesis to super strength, speed and even transmutation. These powers are known as ‘fragments’ and the people who wield them known as the ‘Needless’. Read more…
DVD Review: Chaos; Head Collection
From the mind that brought you Death Note comes a schizophrenic anime experience!
Based on a virtual novel developed for the PC (and later Playstation and XBox systems) by 5pb and Nitroplus and consequent Manga adaptation, Chaos Head (also known as the stylised ChäoS;HEAd) is a psychological thriller with sci-fi and fantasy elements.
The story follows Takumi Nishijō, an otaku with a love of action figures and dolls, specifically of his favourite anime heroine, Orgel Seira. He is reclusive and a self confessed ‘hermit’ with most of his social integration taking place Read more…
DVD Review: Persona 4 The Animation Volume 1
An adaptation of the hugely popular Persona 4 videogame!
High school dramas form a large majority of anime series, and can be set in many genres. Persona 4 contains fantasy situations that happen to the students outside of school and one student in particular, Yu has moved into the area, experiencing some strange phenomena from a TV left on overnight. As he is new he has to make sure that he keeps up a good profile if he wants to make friends, but once he does, his life will change forever.
Chie and Yukiko want to welcome Yu as he is the new guy, but he’s finding it difficult settling into the school routine even if Read more…
DVD Review: The World God Only Knows Complete Series One Collection
12 episodes over 2 discs!
Anime series about computer games are quite popular among the Japanese audiences at the moment. Baka and Test is one that springs to mind, but there are many more. As most technology comes from Japan, and the gaming industry as a whole has taken off greatly, this anime is an example of what happens when school kids get embroiled in hand held gaming devices like the PSP.
The World God Only Knows is seen through the eyes of Katsuragi Keima, a middle school student who is fascinated by his new game. He enjoys Read more…
DVD Review: Shiki Part 1
From the studio that brought you Black Butler and Fullmetal Alchemist!
Nothing happens in a sleepy town and Megumi knows that for sure. She hates the villagers and their gossip and the rural location she came to. Megumi has a deep desire to leave the next chance she gets, but she soon realises the village isn’t as sleepy as she once thought. A new family have moved into the area. No one knows much about them and strange things have begun to occur in her neighbourhood; Jizo statues have been desecrated, and a mystery illness has started to take the lives of Read more…
DVD Review: Rosario & Vampire Capu2 Collection
Contains complete second series!
Due to his failing grades, Tsukune Aono has been unable to get accepted into any well thought of human high schools. Consequently, he has been enrolled at Youkai School, a private school for monsters and other supernatural beings. As the only human boy in the school, he has obviously aroused the interest of several monstrous young girls. Most notably he has taken interest in Moka Akashiya, a powerful vampire who has hidden her full supernatural power through the use of a magical rosary necklace, which only Tsukune seems to be able to Read more…
DVD Review: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Complete Series One
3 discs, 12 magical episodes, uncut and waiting to blow your mind!
Five high school girls get approached by a fox type spirit/mascot who offers to make them magical girls – as a form of incentive, they get one wish. All they have to do is search and destroy dangerous witches who threaten their existence. Being a magical girl isn’t a walk in the park though, there is more to it than even they realise, but each one has a special power they can use as a result of the wish granted to them. They all have problems with being magical girls, but have to get through the difficulties of forming relationships, love, betrayal and Read more…
DVD Review: Princess Resurrection Complete Series Collection
A supernatural mystery/comedy with werewolves, beautiful vampires, grotesque flesh-eating Cthulhu-esque monsters!
Hiro Hiyorimi has been invited to live with his older sister, who has taken a job as a maid for a mysterious Princess. On his way to meet with his sister he encounters a young woman in the street just as she is about to get into a serious accident. Sacrificing himself to save the life of this woman he has never met, Hiro is killed and taken to the local mortuary. The woman is actually the supernatural Princess who Hiro’s sister has been working for and he is blessed with magical powers of regeneration and ressurrection. Struck by Hiro’s heroism, but also the needlessness of his sacrifice due to her Read more…
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 4 OVA Collection Competition Now Closed! And The Winner Is…
Competition winner announced!
Competition is now closed and a winner has been chosen.
Thanks to everyone who entered the competition to win a copy of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 4 OVA Collection Blu-ray/DVD Combi). Sadly, there can only be one winner.
And the winner is… Read more…
DVD Review: Towanoquon Complete Series Collection
A wild dance of chaos!
In a dark and distant future children have awoken to the power within, a strange phenomenon that turns them into superhuman entities. Each one has a trigger, but not all know they have this power. These people are known as Attractors, and have two separate factions interested in capturing them. Only one can benefit them, the other only wants to use them for their own selfish needs. Quon is the good guy, an Attractor himself a faction called Custos, or the Order has given the name Read more…
Voting Now Open For The NEO Awards 2012!
The nominations are in!
After an intense year packed with the biggest franchises, the hottest new releases and some of the most exciting live shows to ever hit the United Kingdom, NEO Magazine puts the power in the hands of its reader to choose the Read more…
DVD Review: Rozen Maiden Ouverture
Journey back to 19th century London and the birth of the Rozen Maidens!
Ever since Jun had to become Suiseki’s medium he has had plenty to deal with around the Rozen Maidens. He does have a lot of them living with him, and he knows he is responsible for their care and maintenance, even if it means him sewing a flower with some red thread onto a bow. The Rozen Maidens try to get on with Jun, but he can find it difficult getting along with them when there is no room for Read more…
DVD Review: Strike Witches Complete Series 2 Collection
A group of flying aces called STRIKE WITCHES lead the battle to regain control of Earth!
During 1944 in Europe a peculiar alien race called the Neuroi made itself known to the humans. For the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, going up against the Neuroi was a walk in the park as they saved Galia from the threat of impending death and destruction. The all-girl pilots however still have to face their enemy again later. The setting is of a different world, set in the same time as World War II where it is the Strike Witches who are protecting Earth from these invasions where the Neuroi take the place of the Read more…
DVD Review: Clannad After Story Part One
3-disc set
It is near the end of summer, and everyone has to think hard on what they want to do when they leave school. Tomoya has no clue what he wants to do when he grows up, let alone when he leaves school and as a detour for his hard decision, Tomoya has been asked by his girlfriend’s dad, Akio to sort out a baseball team to beat his rivals, or he might not be able to show his face to his teammates again. Tomoya doesn’t know much about baseball as a sport, but he has to recruit team members even though he only knows his close friends Read more…
MCM London Comic Con October 2012 Line-Up
Games, sci-fi, comics, anime and cosplay!
26-28 October 2012
ExCel London
MCM Expo London Comic Con returns to ExCel London on 26-28 October and there’s a brilliant line-up of special guests, games, sci-fi, comics, anime and cosplay content to entertain the Read more…
DVD Review: Princess Jellyfish Deluxe Collector’s Edition
Welcome to the world of the fangirls!
Princess Jellyfish centres around the Amamizukan, a small household of otaku women and particularly on the life of Tsukimi Kurashita, a young woman with a love of art and sea-life, specifically jellyfish. Each of the women in the Amamizukan have their own unique obsessions, ranging from traditional Japanese fashion and dolls to trains, older gentlemen, Japanese history, manga and yaoi.
During her time in the city, Tsukimi visits a small spotted jellyfish she has named Clara in the window of a pet-store. She is shocked to Read more…
DVD Review: Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings Complete Season 2
Features all 13 episodes of the show’s second series on 2 discs!
While it is no secret amongst anime fans, that anime which have built their foundations on successful gaming empires don’t always create their own success removed from the world of fandom, those few that develop their own relatable characters and complex, gripping plots can see themselves become accomplished in their own right. As someone with no previous experience of the Sengoku Basara series of games, I was interested to see if this series could carve its own place as a Read more…
