Recent content by Cold Cobra

Many years overdue, One Piece's pacing has been pretty poor for at least a decade... or two.

Dragon Quest: The Mark of Erdrick is one of many Dragon Quest spin-offs although, unlike its more well-known and anime-adapted cousin manga “The Adventure of Dai”, this story sticks closer to the games - but is it for better or worse? Continue reading...

After having watched and enjoyed the crazy anime series of Blood Blockade Battlefront, I was curious about the manga that spawned it, so the release of this omnibus has given me the perfect chance to dive in… Continue reading...

Gundam The Origin returns to UK shores in a new (and hefty!) Deluxe Edition, featuring the first two volumes in A4 size with a lot more beautiful coloured pages to boot, but bonuses aside is it still worth reading? Continue reading...

I read your post and thought "That sounds really familiar, have I seen that...?" and a quick search showed me I reviewed this very release for this very website back in 2019... The end of the review I put "I’d advise watching it as an action-heavy aside to other things you’re watching, but I...

I know it says "The News Thread" but we tend to still keep it to anime related news... (though I'm sure you could do a "Top 10 anime characters clearly based on Hulk Hogan" quite easily!)

Bubblegum Crisis is an 80s OVA cyberpunk series that was among the very first anime I ever knew about or watched - but all these years later, do the adventures of the “Knight Sabres” still hold up? Continue reading...

Riding Bean is an odd one because it’s a 45-ish minute OVA that never became a series, so even though its characters were later repurposed into a successful manga/show it’s kind of like a pilot to a show that never was. So how does it stand on its own? Quite well actually… Continue reading...

All three of my sets arrived. I have to say these wide boxsets are really making me regret my choice of a segmented bookshelf... (Also the TYBW box is nearly impossible to read until you get right up close to it. I guess hot pink with black writing is fine, the reverse is not...)

Blimey, checked my emails when I got back from work and saw not one, not two but three dispatch emails with Naruto 1, Bleach 1 and Bleach: TYBW 1. My apologies to the post man!

Hmmmm.... October 18th is one week AFTER the show debuts in Japan, the US and various other countries. Very annoying not being able to watch a new Dragon Ball property along with everyone else...

Have you ever wondered… pretty much anything even slightly related to Shinichiro Watanabe’s all-time classic Cowboy Bebop? Well, have I got the book for you! Continue reading...

Agreed. Great day to be a Dragon Ball fan (and Dragon Ball is celebrating its 40th just two weeks after I will too!)

When anime first became a thing here in English-speaking countries there were three films that everyone, and I mean everyone, watched: Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll, and while the latter may not have had the far and wide impact the first two had, it was still a big deal within anime...

I'd happily re-buy Persona 4 just for a case that isn't DVD sized...