Anime Review

Can a new retelling of Osamu Tezuka's classic manga work for today's modern anime audience? Let's dive into this 24-episode series on Blu-ray and find out.

Featuring brilliant writing and a wonderful, heart-warming cast of characters, Nichijou: My Ordinary Life is a beautifully animated, laugh-out-loud slice-of-life comedy that is arguably one of Kyoto Animation’s best.

The adaptations of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure have returned to our screen via a Netflix 12-episode drop. Beginning the anime version of Part 6: Stone Ocean, these episodes feature a female lead character and female-heavy cast along with a prison setting, so do these departures work in the long-running series’ favour?

One of the greatest anime of all time finally comes out on Blu-ray.

Hayato Mikogami returns to his hometown to figure out the mystery of a murderer who goes around wearing a skull mask in this series from Studio BONES.

Aria The Animation delivers a relaxing experience and a likeable cast of characters with gradual world-building which I’d happily see more of in the succeeding seasons.

While starting off as a formulaic and poorly executed ecchi monster-of-the-week show, Rosario + Vampire slowly evolves into an enjoyable but average harem romantic comedy as it moves into its second season.

Robotech means a lot to American fans of a certain age, while Macross means a lot to Japanese fans of many ages. Here in the UK, however, neither hold massive sway, least of all Robotech, which was barely featured on TV here. So how does a Blu-ray release containing just the original 80s dubbed Robotech series fare? What is the needlessly complicated history of this show to begin with? Well, it’s funny you should ask…

In the second series, the girls of Rabbit House get drunk on chocolate, take up ballet, and get a visit from Cocoa's big sister.

Yusuke and his friends continue to progress through the Dark Tournament.

More engrossing episodes to watch in the latest collection of Fruits Basket from Funimation as Tohru Honda is drawn deeper into uncovering the dark secrets of the Soma clan.

Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, one of the most iconic anime films of all time, is finally getting a 4K UHD Blu-ray release! Join us as we take a look at this new release, and whether the film still holds up 26 years later.

When second-year high school student Haruka Shinozaki starts dating his classmate crush Akiho Kosaka, he believes he now has the girlfriend of his dreams, but this couldn’t be further from the truth as Akiho turns everything into sexual innuendo! Plunged into a world of dirty jokes, Haruka tries to deepen his relationship with her while fending off her and their friends’ hypersexualised behaviour.

Cuteness, comedy and a hell of a lot of coffee are happily served at the Rabbit House cafe.

The second half of My Hero Academia’s fourth season is a more relaxed affair after an action-packed first half, but is that a bad thing?

This short-form ecchi comedy series is bottom-of-the-barrel entertainment that sees teachers placed into compromising and erotic situations with their students, who then quickly become the object of their affections.