News
New Anime Releases – 28/12/2014
New anime releases this week:
Manga Review
Durarara!!: Yellow Scarves Arc, Volumes 1 & 2
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso
Durarara!!, or DRRR!! if you prefer, is causing some interest…
Anime Review
WataMote: No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular!
“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.” – Winston Churchill …
News
Moyoco Anno seeks crowdfunding for Ochibi-san short film
Moyoco Anno has launched an Indiegogo campaign to crowdfund the making of a short film based her manga The Diary of Ochibi-san.
The stop-motion animated film is made as part of the Japan Animator…
News
Mamoru Hosoda’s latest film revealed: The Boy and The Beast
Anime film director Mamoru Hosoda has revealed his latest project, The Boy and The Beast (Bakemono no Ko) will be released on 11 July 2015.
Hosoda, whose past films have included The Girl Who Leapt…
Anime Review
Patema Inverted
“I wear a necklace, because I wanna know when I’m upside down.” – Mitch Hedberg
This is a very special film in terms of British anime history, in that it was one of the first…
Anime Review
Kill la Kill Volume 1
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde.
Kill la Kill is an anime which has a lot to live up to. The series is directed…
News
DMP launch new Osamu Tezuka Kickstarter: Ludwig B
Digital Manga Publishing has started their latest Kickstarter project to release more of the work of Osamu Tezuka.
Their latest scheme is to release both volumes of Ludwig B, a biography of the…
Anime Review
Dragon Ball Volume 5
This review contains spoilers.
“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” – Herbert Hoover.
In the last collection of Dragon Ball we witnessed…
Anime Review
Ghost In The Shell: Arise Volume 1
“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.” – Alice Kahn
Ghost in the Shell: Arise is the first new addition to the long-running…
News
Attack on Titan gets second series in 2016
A second series based on the best-selling horror manga Attack on Titan has been commissioned for 2016.
The announcement was made at a stage greeting event to mark the release of the first compilation…