There are more than 24 hours in the day. There’s a dark hour that exists between days, when machines stop working, people vanish into coffins and monsters called Shadows come out to hunt. The occasional human isn’t lucky enough to transform into a safe coffin clad item during the Dark Hour. They stay real, active […]
Shelter: Anime music video goes viral
Got to dredge through obscure blogs like Geek Native to find anime music videos? Not in this case. Electronic music producers Madeon and Porter Robinson took their track ‘Shelter’ to A-1 for a video. The result? Nearly 1 million views in the first day and, at the time of writing, 9th in YouTube’s trending chart. […]
Grown up Alice: A review of The Weirding Willows
I’m not sure why but many “grown up Alice in Wonderland” comic books take a certain adult spin on the story. Yes, while it’s true that The Weirding Willows has our grown up Alice wandering around without any trousers on for the opening panels she soon dresses and it is not really that sort of […]
Cosmopolitan: A review of the A1 Annual
My cover of the A1 Annual simply says; “The World’s Greatet Comics”. Pop open the covers and you’ll soon encounter a huge list of credits that’s chock full of big names. There’s history here. A1 dates back to the 1980s as a showcase for comics. Even then it attracted all sorts of talent and these […]
From the New World trailer
From the New World is set one thousand years in the future. It’s a future in which civilisation has retreated to small communities that are run by the elite few with telekinesis.
Trailer for Fairy Tale movie: The Maiden of the Phoenix
Satelight and A-1 Pictures have brough together the original voice actors for the Fairy Tail anime series for a Fairy Tail movie. The Maiden of the Phoenix will hit the cinema in August of this year in Japan. A girl called Eclair finds the Fairy Tail wizard’s guild insisting that she’s lost all of memories […]
MMORPG anime Sword Art Online gets extended tailer
When Geek Native wrote about Sword Art Online back in February there was some debate about the premise. The game – a “VRMMORPG” if you want – is one where you die in real life if you die in the game. How does that work? The trailer still doesn’t explain so we’re left to speculate. […]
Sword Art Online is a deadly MMORPG
Based on the novel series by Reki Kawahara, sword Art Online, is an anime about a deadly massively multi-player online RPG. In fact, it’s a virtual-reality, massively multi-player online RPG or VRMMORPG is you want. Sword Art Online is a game you have to win. There are two ways out; death or success. In-game death […]