Paul

Washed up on the good shores of Anime UK News after many a year at sea, Paul has been writing about anime for a long time here at AUKN and at his anime blog.

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Anime Review

Fruits Basket Volume 1

Fruit’s Basket is the tale of Tohru Honda and the many different (and frankly strange!) personalities she meets during this small period of her life.

Since losing her beloved mother (and…

• 31st May 2004
Anime Review

Armitage III: Polymatrix

Conjuring up similarities to both Blade Runner and The Matrix, ‘Armitage III: Polymatrix’ is a futuristic tale that questions the importance of life; human or robotic, what’s…

• 26th May 2004
Anime Review

Ninja Scroll TV Volume 1

Expectations are always hard to live up to, and Ninja Scroll TV had it especially hard. Tasked with following up one of the most successful anime ever, the pressure was on to try and adapt the enthralling…

• 24th May 2004
Features

Interview with Kabuki UK editor

Since Manga Max was discontinued around 5 years ago, the UK hasn’t had an anime magazine to call it’s own. David E Rault is a man on a mission to change this, and with his fledgling publication…

• 24th April 2004
Features

Fansub Future Shock

Fansubbed episodes of our favourite series have massively contributed to the rapid growth of anime in recent years, there is just no doubt about that…, yet strangely, it still remains …

• 19th April 2004
Features

UK’s most wanted anime (5 through 1)

5. X TV With humanity’s future balanced on a knife edge, the fate of all mankind lies on the shoulders of one boy, Kamui Shirou, a young man with a turbulent past and attitude problem. As Kamui inevitably…

• 10th April 2004
Anime Review

Ninja Scroll

Riding on the very crest of the mid-90’s anime ‘ultra-violence’ invasion was Ninja Scroll, a title from Manga Entertainment that was being announced to the British public…

• 31st March 2004
Anime Review

Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal

Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal are the highly acclaimed prequels to the wandering samurai anime series ‘Rurouni Kenshin’.

Of course, anyone that has seen the series will have …

• 20th March 2004
Features

Anime and UK TV

One of the most frustrating things when you associate anime with Britain is the lack of TV exposure it’s been lumbered with since it exploded onto our shores in the mid-80s with Akira.

In …

• 1st March 2004
Features

Bootleggers Paradise

Being the newbie that I am when it comes to online auctioning websites like EBay, yesterday I stumbled into their anime DVD section and thought I’d found a fan boy’s paradise. “A Cowboy…

• 1st March 2004