Azure Flame Reloaded

Like bubbles rising to the surface, the entity known as Boogiepop emerges as the world’s protector whenever danger arises- and now, as a new crime wave sweeps his school, student Akizuki Takaya finds himself playing host to Boogiepop’s latest incarnation. Together with his teacher and previous Boogiepop host Igarashi, Akizuki must put his own personal [...]

Chapters 1-73 When the demonic creatures known as Youma begin preying on humanity, there is only thing that can stand against them- the Claymores, women infused with Youma flesh and named for the giant swords they carry. Despite being the lowest ranked of them all, the Claymore known as Clare is driven by a fierce [...]

In the future, a cataclysmic event has changed the face of the Earth forever, and as sea levels continue to rise, humanity enters a peaceful twilight age. As the declining population reverts to a more peaceful way of life, in a quiet corner of Japan, a robot named Alpha runs her own café, catering for [...]

Ichijo Mashiro has a secret- for all that he chosen to look and act like a man, the truth is that his body is not completely one gender or the other. It’s an unusual scenario, but one he tries to convince himself he has come to terms with, at least until a bizarre set of [...]

Long before StrikerS came along and irretrievably damaged the reputation of the Nanoha franchise, I decided to acquire the eight chapters that comprised the Nanoha A’s manga. By the time I came to read it, I wasn’t even sure if I still wanted to, but since it was a) bearably short and b) sitting on [...]

Minamoto no Hikaru may be a girl, but she certainly doesn’t want to act like one. She’d much rather be out swinging her sword around like her beloved big brother Raikou than sitting around demurely waiting for him to come home- and even the best efforts of her father aren’t going to change her way [...]

The title of this post is not a joke; Togashi meant to call this Level A(lien), but his command of English was such that he thought ‘Eirien’ began with E. Although most humans remain blissfully unaware of it, aliens have been coming to Earth for many years, driven by everything from a desire to commit [...]

In the course of Earth’s history, it has inevitably been the case that one species has risen to dominance, only to eventually be superseded by another- and with the emergence of the two-horned Diclonius, it seems that humanity’s time has inevitably come. Able to manipulate matter with invisible hands known as vectors, and consumed by [...]

Living away from home, a young girl is all but ready to throw away the mementoes of growing up…until a mysterious yet familiar young boy appears to show her that one doesn’t always need to put away childish things. The daughter of a yakuza family is set to marry the head of an opposing clan, [...]

As a newbie anime fan, one of the earliest series I ever watched was Ceres, Celestial Legend. Fuelled by a desire to expand my experience with Yuu Watase beyond Fushigi Yuugi, I watched all 24 episodes of the anime in the course of about three evenings, and at the time, it seemed a worthy endeavour. [...]