Around two years ago, I covered the first MCM Birmingham Expo (which was a chance to check if it was worth going to). Since then I have gone to almost every one of them and it’s become a nice place …
Organisers for the Terracotta Far East Film Festival 2014 have announced that tickets are now on sale. Here are the details:
Terracotta Far East Film Festival runs from 23 May to 1 June at the Institute…
It’s come to our attention that we don’t talk about mecha shows very often. Arguably, this isn’t helping
This episode is dedicated to Ryosuke Takahashi’s FLAG, the…
A while ago, Anime Limited announced that they had obtained the rights to Patema Inverted, a brand new fantasy movie directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Time of Eve), which won both the Audience and…
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.” – Garrison Keillor
This latest collection of Fairy Tail is pretty topsy-turvy. We see the strangest…
The upcoming brand spanking new anime adaptation of Naoko Takeuchi’s genre definining Sailor Moon manga certainly has been a big deal ever since it was first announced. Yesterday’s…
The full line-up for this year’s Terracotta Far East Film Festival has been revealed ahead of its run at The Prince Charles Cinema and The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London between May 23rd…
Salmon-and-burdock seasoned mixed rice…eggplants and tomatoes with Chinese-style spicy pork…chestnut rice…
Forty-something good-looking lawyer Shiro Kakei loves…
The full line-up for this year’s Terracotta Far East Film Festival has been revealed ahead of its run at The Prince Charles Cinema and The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London between …
Studio Ghibli film From Up on Poppy Hill will receive its UK television premiere on Film4 at 17.20 on Sunday 4th May.
The movie, directed by Goro Miyazaki, will be broadcast in the original Japanese…
Thirteen-year-old Rikuo Nura is one quarter yōkai which means that he can only assume his powerful yōkai form, Nurarihyon, during the hours of darkness. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather,…
This book and indeed this review are rather timely, as Yen Press has recently announced that will be publishing more light novels. This can only be a good move, as now we will be able to read the original…
New anime releases this week
Yen Press have just held their panel at Sakura Con in the United States, where they dropped the bombshell that the A Certain Magical Index light novels will finally be published in English. Yen …
The light novel business may be thriving in Japan, but outside of their home country things have been less than positive. Numerous times, publishers have tried to tap into the market overseas …
Brain Base’s anime adaptation of Wataru Watari’s slice of life series My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU was quite a surprise hit when it aired in Japan last Spring. So it’s no surprise…
A few weeks ago two French manga critics, Matthieu Pinon and Laurent Lefebvre, launched a project on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The project is called 1952-2012: Stories of Modern…
