Opinion

My First BL/Yuri Anime and Manga – the Anime UK News writers indulge in some LGBT+ nostalgia to celebrate Pride Month 2022

It's Pride Month - and the writers at Anime UK News have been looking back at their first discoveries in LGBT+ manga and anime...

AUKN Staff • 12th June 2022

Manga Review

Let’s Go Karaoke! Review

How has the head of the middle school choir ended up in a karaoke booth, teaching a distinctly shady yakuza how to improve his singing?

Sarah • 1st June 2022

Manga Review

My Boy Volume 9 Review

My Boy reaches its ninth and final volume as Mashuu and his ‘Miss Satoko’ reach a new understanding of their friendship and life goes on…

Sarah • 26th May 2022

Manga Review

I Cannot Reach You Volume 4 Review

Can things ever be the same again after Yamato kisses his childhood friend Takeru? Especially as he seems to have no memory whatsoever of having done so! Find out what happens next in Volume 4 of I Cannot Reach You…

Sarah • 23rd May 2022

Manga Review

Sensei’s Pious Lie Volume 1 Review

Prim and proper Misuzu Hara is working as a high school teacher – but hides a terrible trauma from the world and her best friend.

Sarah • 19th May 2022

Manga Review

Blue Period Volume 6 Review

The first day of the vital second examination arrives - but Yatora feels like death warmed up! With so much riding on the results, will he be able to rise above his physical problems and attempt to create a painting to impress the examiners?

Sarah • 2nd May 2022

Manga Review

Sasaki and Miyano Volume 05 Review

The latest instalment of this accessible and convincing Boys’ Love manga highlights the insecurities felt by both Sasaki and Miyano as they try to understand how they feel about each other.

Sarah • 27th April 2022

Manga Review

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! Volume 4 Review

Work colleagues – and now boyfriends? Salarymen Adachi and Kurosawa go on a first date together – but will Adachi’s secret ability to read other people’s thoughts help or hinder their special day?

Sarah • 25th April 2022

Roundup

Spring Preview 2022 – Funimation Fades Away…

It’s the new season – but it’s mostly on Crunchyroll! What new anime have impressed us so far? Find out – and let us know if you agree with our choices…

AUKN Staff • 24th April 2022

Manga Review

My Summer of You (Volume 2 of The Summer with You) Review

My Summer of You delivers another beautifully drawn volume charting the slowly evolving relationship between two young men. It's a different kind of a slow-burn romance than Sasaki and Miyano but will still appeal to readers looking for a realistic and engaging BL tale. 

Sarah • 18th April 2022

Manga Review

Penguin & House Volume 1 Review

A manga about a carefree student and his house-proud pet penguin, told in bite-size chapters…

Sarah • 14th April 2022

Roundup

What We Watched…and was it any good? Winter Season 2022 Overview

The Winter 2022 season is over – and we’ve watched a lot of anime at Anime UK News! But which shows impressed us all the way through to the final episodes?

AUKN Staff • 4th April 2022

Manga Review

New York, New York Volume 1 Review

Yen Press bring out the first English edition of a classic manga: a gay love story set in 1990s New York that is not afraid to explore real-life issues that are still relevant today.

Sarah • 31st March 2022

Manga Review

Deko-Boko Bittersweet Days Review

Highschool romance can be sweet – but can it survive beyond graduation? Dekoboko Bittersweet Days follows Rui and Yuujirou as they face some difficult decisions…

Sarah • 21st March 2022

Manga Review

Double Volume 4 Review

Actor Takara Takarada and his onetime friend and mentor Yuujin Kamoshima have gone their separate ways – until a new theatrical production offers the chance to perform on the same stage together again. Will this make or break their friendship?

Sarah • 16th March 2022

Manga Review

10 Dance Volume 6 Review

After parting ways, can the two kings of the dance floor continue to dance together or must they abandon their mutual aim to enter the 10 Dance competition?

Sarah • 26th February 2022