Fantasy 4
Claymore
By Hugh David. Fans of Berserk and Fullmetal Alchemist will find a lot to like in this epic twenty-six-part saga from 2007, which adapts the first eleven volumes of Norihiro Yagi’s manga, published from 2001 to 2014 across several magazines in the Jump family. But what sets Claymore apart from the run-of-the-mill fantasy/swords-and-sorcery manga and […]
Rage of Bahamut: Genesis
By Hugh David. In the distant past, the winged dragon Bahamut threatened the entire world of Mistarcia, but humans, gods and demons banded together to seal away its power. To keep it locked away, the seal was broken into two parts, and given to the eternal enemies: gods and demons. Two thousand years later, a […]
Lord Marksman and Vanadis
By Hugh David. It’s taken over a decade to see any sort of boom in fantasy film and TV (outside of those set in the present) following the worldwide financial and critical success of Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of JRR Tolkien’s seminal work The Lord of the Rings. This has been because, despite great advances […]
Arslan vs Game of Thrones
By Andrew Osmond The new anime version of Heroic Legend of Arslan is underway. Our recent preview of the show went through the basics; how it’s a serious fantasy about human not magic conflicts, based on a manga by Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist), which in turn comes from novels by Yoshiki Tanaka (Legend of the […]