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With a chant of "Ai-katsu!", Matthew Tinn spends their days filled with idol music and J-Pop. A somewhat frequent-ish visitor to Japan, they love writing and talking about anime, Japanese music and video games.

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Blood Blade Volumes 2 and 3 Review
Manga Review

Blood Blade Volumes 2 and 3 Review

Blood Blade Volumes 2 and 3 Review
While Vlad and their small band of monsters have set off for the paradise of Monster Island, getting there won’t be easy as an old foe rears his head. The Justiciar has his sights set on Vlad and wants them eliminated, at any cost.
• 6th March 2025
Winter Season 2025 Preview
Roundup

Winter Season 2025 Preview

Winter Season 2025 Preview
Winter Season 2025 is now underway, so the team at Anime UK News are here to share their picks of both new and returning series!
AUKN Staff • 25th January 2025
Zenshu Episode 1 Review
Anime Review

Zenshu Episode 1 Review

Zenshu Episode 1 Review
Hotshot anime director Natsuko Harose is penning her big new anime film when she kicks the bucket and finds herself in the world of her favourite anime movie! Join us as we take a peak at this weird and wonderful new isekai series.
• 5th January 2025
Autumn Season 2024 Overview
Roundup

Autumn Season 2024 Overview

Autumn Season 2024 Overview
Now that the Autumn 2024 Season is (just about!) over, find out which series stayed the course for our writers at Anime UK News (and maybe one or two that didn’t…)
AUKN Staff • 3rd January 2025
Scotland Loves Anime 2024
Roundup

Scotland Loves Anime 2024

Scotland Loves Anime 2024
With this year's Scotland Loves Anime having come to a close, our writers look back on the festival and what films you should be keeping an eye out for!
AUKN Staff • 1st December 2024
Autumn Season 2024 Preview
Roundup

Autumn Season 2024 Preview

Autumn Season 2024 Preview

Autumn has arrived and with it all the new and returning series, spread between Crunchyroll, Netflix, Disney+, HIDIVE, Amazon Prime and even Channel 4’s Adult Swim. Which new series are…

AUKN Staff • 21st October 2024
Summer 2024 Overview
Roundup

Summer 2024 Overview

Summer 2024 Overview

Rather like the unreliable UK weather this summer, the Summer anime series have been stop-start, affected by the Paris Olympics, some off-air for a few weeks in mid-run and/or finishing at 10 …

AUKN Staff • 4th October 2024
The Kept Man of the Princess Knight (Manga) Volume 1 Review
Manga Review

The Kept Man of the Princess Knight (Manga) Volume 1 Review

The Kept Man of the Princess Knight (Manga) Volume 1 Review
Once homeless and destitute, the former adventurer Matthew finds himself being taken in by the former Kingdom of Mactarode’s famous Princess Knight. While she fights in the local dungeon, Matthew spends what little money she gives him on brothels and booze. Yet despite his debauchery, he spends his nights working in the shadows protecting the place they both call home.
• 21st August 2024
Friday at the Atelier Volume 1 Review
Manga Review

Friday at the Atelier Volume 1 Review

Friday at the Atelier Volume 1 Review
After a downtrodden office worker stumbles upon a guy with a bag of the fish she is craving, she finds herself in his apartment modelling nude for him, covered in fish! As the pair continue to work together, will this lead to romance blossoming between them, or is their arrangement going to stay strictly professional?
• 29th July 2024
Summer Season 2024 Preview
Roundup

Summer Season 2024 Preview

Summer Season 2024 Preview

The much-anticipated return of [Oshi no Ko] has probably brought many viewers back to HIDIVE as well as getting the Summer 2024 Season off to a sparkling start. But what else looks good this season?…

AUKN Staff • 25th July 2024
Spring 2024 Overview
Roundup

Spring 2024 Overview

Spring 2024 Overview

Has the Spring 2024 Season proved to be a good one, filled with series that our reviewers have looked forward to, week after week? What have been the gems? Has it been a ‘something for everyone’ season…

AUKN Staff • 1st July 2024
Rent-a-Girlfriend Review
Anime Review

Rent-a-Girlfriend Review

Rent-a-Girlfriend Review
After Kazuya gets dumped by his first girlfriend, he turns to a rental girlfriend service and hires out first-rate beauty Chizuru Mizuhara. However, after a run-in with both their grandmothers they now have to pretend they are actually dating! Discover an unapologetic look at messy relationships in this cheesy rom-com!
• 21st May 2024
Spring Season 2024 Preview
Roundup

Spring Season 2024 Preview

Spring Season 2024 Preview

Suffering from déjà vu when you scan the list of Spring Season anime? So many third seasons! And, what’s this: Spice and Wolf returns – but it’s a different animation of the original series? Kaiju…

AUKN Staff • 24th April 2024
Winter 2024 Overview
Roundup

Winter 2024 Overview

Winter 2024 Overview

How was your Winter 2024 Season? Was it better than Autumn 2023? Did the ongoing slew of isekai enchant or overwhelm you? And what on earth was going on in Brave Bang Bravern!? As the late-starting…

AUKN Staff • 31st March 2024
Blood Blade Volume 1 Review
Manga Review

Blood Blade Volume 1 Review

Blood Blade Volume 1 Review
After being killed in a vicious war, Count Vlad “the Impaler” is resurrected as an immortal vampire girl. 400 years later, after encountering a patchwork teenage girl and a grizzled eyepatch-wearing assassin, Vlad is pulled into a battle against Cerberus, a mysterious organisation trying to take over the world with a human-monster hybrid army.
• 20th March 2024
Otherside Picnic Volumes 7 and 8 Review
Manga Review

Otherside Picnic Volumes 7 and 8 Review

Otherside Picnic Volumes 7 and 8 Review
As Sorawo and Toriko get pulled into a mystery where a girl at Sorawo’s university is being stalked by ninja cats, they finally pick up a potential lead on Satsuki. Yet as they investigate her past at an Otherside research institute, the girls find more than they bargained for and end up in a fight for their lives.
• 27th February 2024