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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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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
Assassins Pride Review
Anime Review

Assassins Pride Review

Assassins Pride Review
Half-vampire assassin Kufa Vampir is tasked with investigating Melida Angel, a noble girl who is thought to be the product of an affair as she has not inherited her father’s magic. While he is meant to kill her, he instead bestows upon her his own mana, meaning that he must now protect Melida’s school life or risk them both being executed.
• 19th February 2024
Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Season 2 Collector’s Edition Review
Anime Review

Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Season 2 Collector’s Edition Review

Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Season 2 Collector’s Edition Review
After the success of the first School Idol Festival, the girls of Nijigasaki High quickly move to put on its second iteration, but the sudden appearance of Zhong Lanzhu throws everything up in the air. Faced with an upstart rival who denies everything their club stands for, the girls are going to have to take their battle to the stage if they want to get Lanzhu to join them!
• 11th February 2024
Otherside Picnic Volume 6 Review
Manga Review

Otherside Picnic Volume 6 Review

Otherside Picnic Volume 6 Review
After seeing off the threat of Kankandara and sending the US Marines home, Sorawo and Toriko kick back and chill at the beach in Okinawa… or what should have been Okinawa as they once again find themselves slipping through to the Otherside, where nothing is ever as it seems!
• 11th January 2024
Scotland Loves Anime 2023 Roundup
Roundup

Scotland Loves Anime 2023 Roundup

Scotland Loves Anime 2023 Roundup
After attending the 2023 edition of Scotland Loves Anime, AUKN writers reflect on both the best and the worst of what this year's festival had to offer.
AUKN Staff • 30th November 2023
Otherside Picnic Volume 5 Review
Manga Review

Otherside Picnic Volume 5 Review

Otherside Picnic Volume 5 Review
Toriko and Sorawo return to Station February to save what remains of the stranded US Marines, but with 5 km between them and their escape point filled with traps, glitches and monsters, will Sorawo and her mystical eye be able to get them out, or will they meet an untimely demise?
• 7th November 2023
Otherside Picnic Volume 4 Review
Manga Review

Otherside Picnic Volume 4 Review

Otherside Picnic Volume 4 Review
With Toriko missing, Sorawo and Kozakura plunge into the Otherside to search for her, but end up fighting for survival themselves as they have to face the alternate reality’s harsh swamps, forests and other things that go bump in the night, all while being followed by the mysterious Space-Time Man.
• 14th September 2023
Non Non Biyori Nonstop Review
Anime Review

Non Non Biyori Nonstop Review

Non Non Biyori Nonstop Review
While the Asahigaoka girls’ summer adventure in Okinawa may be over, there’s still plenty of fun to be had before the holidays end, yet when they do, the new school term brings in some new faces as the girls discover both the highs and lows of growing up.
• 5th September 2023
Love Live! Superstar!! Season 1 Collector’s Edition Review
Anime Review

Love Live! Superstar!! Season 1 Collector’s Edition Review

Love Live! Superstar!! Season 1 Collector’s Edition Review
Love Live! returns with an all-new generation! Despite loving to sing, Kanon Shibuya struggles to perform in front of others and has given up on her dream of being a singer. Yet after bumping into idol enthusiast Keke Tang she might have another chance. Facing down stern student council president Ren Hazuki, the pair have to win an idol contest for Keke to form the school idol club, but with so little time and experience will they be able to make it, or will their idol dreams be dashed forever?
• 21st August 2023
Non Non Biyori Vacation Review
Film Review

Non Non Biyori Vacation Review

Non Non Biyori Vacation Review
It’s the summer holidays and the kids of Asahigaoka are bored. The remedy? Suguru winning a 4-day trip to Okinawa in a lottery! Get ready to follow our cast on a life-changing adventure in this fun and cosy tropical film.
• 18th August 2023