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ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE SHINESMAN Although Super Sentai teams (such as Go-Busters and Kyoryuger, spotlighted in this very issue on page 030!) have defended Japan against alien invasions or vengeful demons for decades
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW PENGUINDRUM - BOX SET 1 When their sister Himari dies during a trip to the aquarium, brothers Kanba and Shoma Takakura are stricken with grief.
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW BODACIOUS SPACE PIRATES - PART 2 Captain Mariko Kato returns for a second helping of lightweight interstellar adventures to wrap up the first season of Bodacious Space Pirates.
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW KING OF THORN Humanity’s days appear to be numbered when the deadly Medusa virus sweeps across the globe. The mysterious pandemic is invariably fatal and petrifies anyone it infects, turning them to stone.
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW NINJA SCROLL In a fantasy medieval Japan, the Black Ops of the samurai world are the ninja; elite warriors, despatched on secret missions by their clan lords.
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW SEKIREI: PURE ENGAGEMENT - THE COMPLETE SERIES 2 Minato and his squad of buxom battling girls return for another round of fanservice and fighting.
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE SAY €I LOVE YOU€ Have a guess which series we’re describing here: shy, unbecoming teenage girl has no friends, largely because of a number of personal psychoses.
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO Before Spirited Away, before Totoro, before Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki’s first anime movie was The Castle of Cagliostro.
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE MAGI: THE LABYRINTH OF MAGIC Brave heroes, bold adventures, cunning princesses and plenty of moral lessons – the fables of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights have been retold for centuries
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE FROM THE NEW WORLD One thousand years ago, something changed. Humanity evolved, with dangerous new abilities that plunged us into a new Dark Age that lasted for centuries.
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE GINTAMA: THE MOVIE To paraphrase Doctor McCoy, it’s Japan, Jim, but not as we know it. Hideaki Sorachi created Gintama in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump.
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE PTU STRONG ARM OF THE LAW Working with Johnnie To definitely brings out the darkness in Simon Yam. This is never more apparent than in the thriller PTU.
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE DEAD OR ALIVE 5 Just when we thought the Dead or Alive franchise had reached the pinnacle of perv, what with its infamous bouncy boob physics...
ANIME & MANGA // NEWS EL HAZARD Over the years, plenty of anime have drawn inspiration from the fables of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW HETALIA: WORLD SERIES Hetalia’s latest volume – containing the final 24 episodes of the World Series and a handful of bonus shorts
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW FREEZING Aoi Kazuya is the new kid in class at West Genetics school, where the students fall into two categories.
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW PHANTOM: REQUIEM FOR THE PHANTOM - THE COMPLETE SERIES Zwei has no memories of his life before he woke up the clutches of a global criminal organisation called Inferno that decided he had all the makings of a perfect assassin.
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW GINTAMA: THE MOVIE In a Japan conquered by aliens, former samurai Gintoki survives by working as an odd job man.
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW CLANNAD AFTER STORY: PART 2 This continuation of a continuation of the slice of life show Clannad continues much as you would expect a slice of life show to continue.
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW TALES OF VESPERIA: THE FIRST STRIKE Something is very wrong in the forests around the merchant town of Shizontania.
ANIME & MANGA // REVIEW BERSERK: THE GOLDEN AGE ARC 1 Kentarou Miura’s blood-soaked tale of warriors, betrayal and revenge is given a new lease of life with the first of a trilogy of films directed by Toshiyuki Kubooka.
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE CODE GEASS Kaze’s Blu-ray treatment of the wildly popular Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion delivers the show in a way you’ve never seen before.
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE CANAAN Unlike Bodacious Space Pirates, Canaan has taken longer to make it to the UK, but we’re no less excited for it from the wait.
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE TIGER & BUNNY It’s not all high-powered heroes beating up colourful supervillains though – Tiger & Bunny has depth.
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE MIRAI NIKKI When it first aired at the end of 2011, Mirai Nikki grabbed our attention with the ferociousness of a crazed attacker holding a knife to our throats
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE BODACIOUS SPACE PIRATES They’re also both fun, female-led shows that excel in comedy and action – win-win, in our books!
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE BLEACH HELLVERSE Peace and quiet never last long for Ichigo Kurosaki – but when you’re a border guard between the realms of the living and dead
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE MARDOCK SCRAMBLE SECOND COMBUSTION Mardock Scramble’s first outing was one of the most visually stunning pieces of animation we’ve seen in years
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE KIDS ON THE SLOPE A series set in the 1960s with a heavy jazz influence is probably going to sound dull to anyone born in the last 30 years or so...
ANIME & MANGA // ARTICLE JOURNEY TO AGARTHA A lonely young girl, Asuna, learns of the subterranean society after a strange boy named Shun saves her from an impossible monster.

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