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Ragna Crimson features dragons, time travel and overly dramatic angst mixed with occasional immature humour and lots of fight scenes, things that often draw positive attention within its more action-focused genre, so how is it that it managed to fly so completely under the radar when it aired in...

The Mark of Erdrick rolls on with a volume containing some character development for some of the other “lords” around our hero Arus, plus a good old-fashioned “hero rises to the impossible challenge” so our protagonist doesn’t miss out on some spotlight! Continue reading...

Just checking in with other people, my copy of Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Part 3 arrived today and apart from "Part 3" it has no writing on the spine at all. Does everyone else have this? I mean Parts 1 and 2 were hard to make out (it's not normally as clear as this picture directly under...

There was that Bleach anniversary one shot a few years ago that ended with a tagline along the lines of "Hell Arc begins" that then didn't go anywhere. Exciting if true for this long-time Bleach fan, I assumed if anything it might be an anime exclusive thing given how much Kubo's been involved...

The Mark of Erdrick continues and its connection to Dragon Quest III becomes even stronger with the appearance of a resurrected enemy from the game, followed by the introduction of a rather odd new companion… Continue reading...

It is funny that this old username of mine did indeed start as me and my friends creating Foxhound code names when the original MGS came out and for whatever reason it's followed my online identity for the past 26 or so years, so a bit late to change it now. Will consider badly photoshopping a...

What to you get when you take a full-on action heavy PS2 game called “Gungrave” and adapt it into an anime? If you said “a mafia thriller centred on the relationship between two characters and what tears them apart” then you’ll be oddly correct, at least for half the series anyway… Continue...

Old Boy is often remembered for the Korean film adaptation of the same name (minus the space between the two words) which won many awards and still appears on several “greatest of all time” lists, but what of the manga original that it was based on? Does it hold up as well? Continue reading...

At least they also revealed the Galactic Patrol arc as well, which is new-to-anime rather than a third anime version of Battle of Gods! (not that I'll ever complain about more Dragon Ball... anything) Edit: Actually reading more about it, it's a One Piece: Fishman Island style remaster, cutting...

The spin-off manga set within the original “Erdrick Trilogy” of games continues with its second volume, taking us through an all-too-familiar desert town but with a few unexpected twists… Continue reading...

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!