Having watched anime since it was airing late night on the Sci-Fi channel in the late 90s, I consider myself... someone who's watched a lot of anime, and then got hired to write reviews about them. Hooray!
Has 2025 been a good year for manga, manhwa and light novels? The Anime UK News reviewers are here to share their favourite titles – and to recommend some new ones for 2026!
After such a busy Summer Season, is the Autumn any less crowded? Of course not! Which is why the Anime UK News writers are here to give some recommendations of series that have caught their interest…
Dragon Quest: The Mark of Erdrick is one of many Dragon Quest spin-offs although, unlike its more well-known and anime-adapted cousin manga “The Adventure of Dai”, this story sticks closer to the games - but is it for better or worse?
After having watched and enjoyed the crazy anime series of Blood Blockade Battlefront, I was curious about the manga that spawned it, so the release of this omnibus has given me the perfect chance to dive in…
The Summer Season’s over (just about!) but which titles stayed the course for the writers at Anime UK News? Find out…and do let us know your favourites too!
Gundam The Origin returns to UK shores in a new (and hefty!) Deluxe Edition, featuring the first two volumes in A4 size with a lot more beautiful coloured pages to boot, but bonuses aside is it still worth reading?
With a bewildering number of series to watch this Summer Season, which titles are worth checking out? The Anime UK News writers have plenty of suggestions!
Bubblegum Crisis is an 80s OVA cyberpunk series that was among the very first anime I ever knew about or watched - but all these years later, do the adventures of the “Knight Sabres” still hold up?
Riding Bean is an odd one because it’s a 45-ish minute OVA that never became a series, so even though its characters were later repurposed into a successful manga/show it’s kind of like a pilot to a show that never was. So how does it stand on its own? Quite well actually…
New anime TV series for Spring have been springing up on all the usual streaming channels since April began – but what’s this? We can’t watch Yaiba yet in the UK – Lazarus (Shinichiro Watanabe) is…
It’s sunny and the spring flowers are appearing – it must be the end of winter! And that also means the Winter Season is drawing to a close. We said farewell to Dragon Ball DAIMA (twenty episodes) …
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…)
It’s that time of year again: Pumpkin Spice is the flavour of the month in your local café, the supermarket shelves are filled with tempting spider/bat/skeleton snacks, and the nights are getting…
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…
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 …
Have you ever wondered… pretty much anything even slightly related to Shinichiro Watanabe’s all-time classic Cowboy Bebop? Well, have I got the book for you!