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Naruto Shippuden’s UK release continues to move ever forward (I’m running out of unique ways to phrase that, I may have to start repeating them soon…) as the 28th 2-disc “box …
Warning: Review contains episode spoilers
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in…
Warning: Contains spoilers to Part 1.
“It’s all in the mind you know, it’s all in the mind.” – The Goons
The second part of Zeta Gundam sees the series really firing up, as we witness love, death, betrayal…
“Playing for someone else is more important than you’d think. You said you started playing the piano for someone else, right? That’s when you’re able to play well. When you’ve…
“The Guardian: Newt technology spills end to misprints.” – Stephen Fry
The original Mobile Suit Gundam did badly in the ratings when it went out originally in 1979, so perhaps what is most surprising…
The Pokémon franchise has recently been enjoying its time in the limelight again with the release of the latest main series game installments, Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, as well as various …
The “Universe Survival Arc” is well under way as we start our look at the near-enough sequel series to Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Super, currently available to stream for free at Daisuki.net. We’ve…
Warning: Contains very strong language from the start.
“I wrote, I wrote to the- the Council of Churches and I said, ‘This fucking Bible… especially, erm, Paul,’ I said, ‘This fucking Bible really…
In a world where dirty jokes don’t exist, and the mere mention of a sex organ can get you thrown in jail, a hero must rise as a symbol for all things lewd. The mysterious Blue Snow, proudly wearing …
Welcome to Koryo Academy, a high school where students are trained to be future peace keepers by utilizing the power of Blaze; the ability to manifest one’s soul into the shape of a weapon, like…
Raku Ichijo, only son of the leader of the Shue-Gumi yakuza gang, and golden-haired Chitoge, only heir to the rival gang, have been made – unwillingly – to enter into an ‘engagement’ to bring an …
After being orphaned as a child, Riki Naoe shut himself out from the world. However, he was soon saved when he met a boy named Kyosuke, and was recruited into the Little Busters, a group of friends…
Warning: Review contains episode spoilers
“Hans [Christian] Andersen slept in this room for five weeks – which seemed to the family AGES!” – A note in Charles Dickens’s house.
Last time the Fairy…
There is a saying that goes around about slice-of-life anime and how it’s often ‘cute girls doing cute things’. For this review of Busou Shinki I’ve decided to repurpose that saying to ‘cute robot…
Eden of the East was undoubtedly the big hit of 2009, and now you can own the whole series and the films in one rather lovely Blu-ray box. Before looking at the set itself, let’s have a quick reminder…
On 1st April 2007, Gurren Lagann debuted. To mark its 10th anniversary, we have republished our review of All the Anime’s Ultimate Edition boxset which was first put on sale in 2014. The series …
“The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.” – Thomas Hobbes.
The original Mobile Suit Gundam series that ended in 1980 was not a success. In fact, the series got axed.…
Episodes 373-396, may contain spoilers.
“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde.
This collection marks several landmarks in One Piece: it sees…
If you’re someone who’s read many of my Anime UK News reviews, you’ll know that I’m a real fan of any work adapted or created by Studio BONES. Lately there was one notable series of theirs that I didn’t…
With a lot of series, I would point to the writers or directors and put in brackets their most famous work, but Serial Experiments Lain IS the most famous work of writer Chiaki J. Konaka, character…
