Wolf Children is an anime by Mamoru Hosoda who is responsible for Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. I watched Summer Wars at the Scotland Loves Anime film festival of 2011 and really enjoyed it – I went into Wolf Children with my expectations high. This is always dangerous. Wolf Children is […]
Blood-C: The Last Dark review
Technically Blood-C: The Last Dark is a sequel but the creative team re-jigs things slightly and the film stands on its own two feet. I didn’t notice or mind that I hadn’t seen any of the previous anime. Action kicks off in a train. A vampire looses control and goes on a face eating rampage. […]
Berserk: Movie 2 – The Battle for Doldrey
The Battle for Doldrey, the second Berserk movie, ensures that anime lives up to its 18-certification with plenty of blood, sweat and tears – blood from a torture scene and some deadly combat and the sweat and tears from all the other physical activities people tend to get up to. The hybrid form of animation […]
Berserk: Movie 1 – The Egg of the King review
Toshiyuki Kubooka’s trilogy of new Berserk movies begins with The Egg of the King. This is an 18 rated movie and with good reason. There’s blood and nudity. The hero is called Guts. There is plenty of Guts. Berserk has a loyal fan base. The manga is more than a dozen years old. There’s been […]
Afterschool Midnighters review
Bonkers is a good word for Afterschool Midnighters. This anime is a CG effort. In fact, the film came about after a demo reel from director Hitoshi Takekiyo became so popular that a full length feature was commissioned. The quality of the CG is really high. Afterschool Midnighters shows what is possible with virtual animation […]
Nerawareta Gakuen review
This review of Nerawareta Gakuen (Psychic School Wars) is the result of the world premier held in Edinburgh, in Scotland Loves Anime, in October 2012. The anime was directed by Ryosuke Nakamura and is his first feature film after the TV series Box of Goblins. It’s based on the novel written by Taku Mayumura. Nerawareta […]
A review of Dead Space: Catalyst
I liked the blood splatters. That was my first impression of Dead Space: Catalyst. Titan Books had given B. K. Evenson’s Dead Space novel a small but effective treatment and decorated the chapter numbers with a splash of black and white blood. Dead Space has always been about the atmosphere. Okay; Dead Space has been […]
Resident Evil: Retribution, a review of the book
Loyal fans of the Resident Evil series and zombie maniacs will have gone to see Resident Evil: Retribution by now. I’ve seen the film. It was what I expected; zombies, explosions, zombies, fights, zombies and the body beautiful. There is an official movie novelization of the film too and this is a review of it. […]
A review of Dracula Cha Cha Cha
Dracula Cha Cha Cha follows on from The Bloody Red Baron in the Anno Dracula blood line. I quite liked The Bloody Red Baron, I felt it took a while to get off the ground but once it got in gear it was flying. You should never judge a book by its cover – or […]
Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane
This is a review of Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane that’s coming out of Solaris towards the end of this month. The collection has been edited by Solaris’ editor-in-chief, author of Twilight of Kerberos: The Call of Kerberos, Jonathan Oliver. Jonathan Oliver is not to be mistaken with Jon Oliver, the escapologist […]
