Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld Red Band Trailer
The Red Band trailer for Takashi Miike’s latest title, Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld, was recently released and it shows some of the insane action that will be in the film.…
Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea Volume 2
“Hikari’s eyes suddenly froze with overwhelming sadness…like a lull in the sea.” Miuna
Warning: spoilers
Five years have passed since the people of the Sea Village, Shioshishio, went…
Love Live! School Idol Project
“I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.” – Virgil Thomson …
Free Manga Talks at the British Museum
Anime News Network have run a story listing a series of free talks connected to the world of manga. These talks are running as an accompaniment to a free manga exhibition called Manga Now: Three …
Knights of Sidonia
“What is it that haunts space where matter is found?” – Arthur Eddington.
The year is 3394 A.D. A thousand years have passed since a race of gigantic aliens known as the Gauna…
Win Naruto Shippuden Box Set 22!
The Fourth Great Ninja War rages on, and danger comes from every angle. Old comrades and enemies have risen from the grave under the control of Kabuto to fight the Allied Forces. While some retain…
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso.
Yuta Togashi is an ordinary schoolboy – or at least he is now. He used to be a “chunibyo”, which literally…
Films at the 2015 Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival
2015 marks the fifth year of the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival, the only film event in Wales to show anime on the big screen. The festival takes place over the course of a day in Cardiff and …
London Film Festival 2015 Set to Screen Studio Ghibli and Mamoru Hosoda Films
This years London Film Festival is set to take place from October 07th to the 18th and there 238 films from 57 countries screening in our nation’s capital over the course of 12 days. Amidst the glamorous…
The Royal Tutor Volume 1 Review
‘A comedy of educational proportions!’
Wienner, capital city of Granzreich in the late nineteenth century. King Viktor has five sons – but, aware that as the course of history …
Studio Ghibli Films on Film4 this Week
British television viewers have been spoiled this summer with Film4’s screening of Ghibli classics such as Spirited Away and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. This week, as the summer holiday…
Third Window Films Release A Snake of June Blu-ray on September 28th
Third Window Films will release a Blu-ray edition of A Snake of June next month. The film is an award-winning psycho-sexual thriller from legendary director Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron…
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ UK Theatrical Release Details
Earlier this week, Anime UK News was sent information regarding the theatrical release of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ in the UK with just over a month to go before its launch. Here are the details:…
Inuyashiki Volume 1
“The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” – T. S. Eliot
The front cover of this…
Space Dandy 2
‘Space Dandy! He’s a dandy guy… in space.’
Searching for rare aliens in the vastness of space, on his spaceship the Aloha Oe, the cooler than cool Dandy and his two sidekicks Meow the Betelgeusian…
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Volume 1
Ever had a show really toy with your expectations? As in, your preconceptions of it got dragged one way, then another, and then in a different direction altogether when you actually saw it?
This…
Reevothemusefan travels to Otakon 2015
For five years I have been to various conventions around the UK and reporting on them for Anime UK News. Last year I decided to expand my convention travels to Ireland for the first MCM Dublin Comic…