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Choujin X by Sui Ishida Chapters 1 - 43 Ishida’s successor to his international mega-hit Tokyo Ghoul. The artist has been very open about the stress that working under tight deadlines caused him. To the point he claims that he'd lost his sense of taste during Ghoul's publication. Fortunately...

Absolutely. The first movie felt like Hathaway was trying to be an infallible figure who operates above all human concerns and a human who can become obsessed over his actions impacting two people he’s known for a day. Trying to avoid the mistakes of Char and Amuro and his own younger self...

A new trailer for Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe released. Confirming that the story will focus on Hathaway’s deep-seated neuroticism more than ever before.

My order from Anime-On-Line arrived today: The World is Still Beautiful and Trinity Blood. And a surprise appearance was a preorder directly from Peow2 Publishing. The long awaited Stop!! Hibari-Kun Volume 1 (along with preorder postcard) and Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte. She’s a Swedish...

Finally got around to Burst Angel Episodes 1 and 2 - The main character has a few scenes where she invokes Brandon Heat from Gungrave, which isn’t a bad thing for a gunslinger in a rotting city where violence rules. It’s just surprising. This just fine for the moment. It’s got good facial...

Preordered the Gungrave collection from Anime-On-Line, alongside The World Is Beautiful and Trinity Blood. MCM defeated me here. I’d been waiting for a standard edition for Trinity but it’s been a few years so it must not be in the pipeline

After pausing Elden Ring some time ago and beating Dark Souls 3’s base game; I decided to go through the original Dark Souls from beginning to end for the first time. Back on the original PS3 I stopped around . But now I’m starting over with the Remaster. The big difference is that I’m going to...

Kagurabachi Chapter 103 - Still going strong. The story is far from over but it feels like this is ratcheting up to the climax of the storylines set up right from the start while seeding future events. We are still hinging almost everything on Hokazono being able to wrap it up, resolve some core...

Kagurabachi Volumes 4 & 5 alongside Kamudo volume 1, inspired by Demelza's review for Anime UK News. I also brought a hardcover copy of The Black Diamond Detective Agency by Eddie Campbell and a paperback of Meta 4 by Ted McKeever.

This week’s Early Bird Deal is Vermeil in Gold Collector’s Edition for £29.99. Scheduled for release on 02/03/2026.

Spent yesterday rained in and using my rare time off work to sort through a lot of my stuff. Which has been ongoing project for many months but I'm making huge progress now. My hope was to get rid off 20% of everything but out of the manga and other books on the table I'm getting rid of 31 books...

I recently found out Heero is not called that because he's the hero. Heero Yuy is derived from hitotsu (one) and yuitsu (only) because a lot of Gundam Wing characters are named after numbers. But Heero's name means 'The One and Only'. Which is possibly the coolest name you could have. While...

Raging Bull, Kotoko and A Snake of June by Shinya Tsukamoto (Tokyo Fist was available but I decided against it). I got these from CEX in Harrogate after the Thought Bubble. Someone apparently brought the Tsukamoto films in for trade that morning so it felt happy coincidence worth taking...

There are two modern anime trailers that really stand out: The Netflix promotion for Evangelion and the trailer for Dragon Ball Super: Broly. These are both huge franchises that sell themselves so they can’t be used as a baseline example. But they are both effective advertising and each of...

I have been listening to the Woman Called Fujiko Mine soundtrack as well as The PenPals (who preformed the opening to the original Berserk anime’s opening)