DMP to release of Osamu Tezuka’s Captain Ken via Kickstarter
Digital Manga Publishing (DMP) has announced its latest Kickstarter project: an English release of Osamu Tezuka’s sci-fi series Captain Ken.
On Sunday at the Anime Central convention…
ONECon to crowdfund its next convention
Teesside-based anime convention ONECon (Otakus North East Convention) is to try and crowdfund its next convention.
The convention, which was voted “Best Newcomer” by The League…
One Piece Volume 6
“Two things awe me most: the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.” – Immanuel Kant.
This sixth collection of the anime adaptation of the most popular manga ever sold…
Dragon Ball Volume 1
“Those who run to the apes to explain our behaviour are chuckle-heads too dumb to know their arse from a hole-in-the-ground.” – W. H. Auden.
When Dragon Ball Z was released …
Fairy Tail Volume 7
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.” – Garrison Keillor
This latest collection of Fairy Tail is pretty topsy-turvy. We see the strangest…
From Up on Poppy Hill to get UK TV premiere
Studio Ghibli film From Up on Poppy Hill will receive its UK television premiere on Film4 at 17.20 on Sunday 4th May.
The movie, directed by Goro Miyazaki, will be broadcast in the original Japanese…
Light novel review – Sword Art Online: Aincrad 001
This book and indeed this review are rather timely, as Yen Press has recently announced that will be publishing more light novels. This can only be a good move, as now we will be able to read the original…
New Anime Releases 20/04/2014
New anime releases this week
Interview – Matthieu Pinon & Laurent Lefebvre (Project 6060)
A few weeks ago two French manga critics, Matthieu Pinon and Laurent Lefebvre, launched a project on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The project is called 1952-2012: Stories of Modern…