Black★Rock Shooter
In the real world the hero Mato is being force-fed macarons by the creepy villain Kagari and generally trying to save all her classmates from their traumatic personal problems. Meanwhile,…
Scotland Loves Anime line-up revealed
Scotland Loves Anime has just announced it’s film line-up for the festival this year. Also, the Edinburgh leg of the festival will have the presence of Director extraordinaire Makoto…
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple Volume 2
Kenichi Shirahama has been training hard – really hard – to learn all the different martial arts styles of his exceptional (and eccentric) six masters at Ryozanpaku Dojo. But the threat posed …
Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Release for the UK
Warner Bros. are preparing to release the live-action adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki’s chanbara manga Rurouni Kenshin in the UK.
The BBFC website has revealed that the film will get a theatrical…
Anime UK News Autumn 2013 Anime Preview Guide
The Anime UK News Autumn 2013 Anime Preview Guide is now up and contains a selection of some of the newest titles to hit Japanese television screens over the coming months. Be it high school romance,…
The Twin Knights
“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.” – Rebecca West.
One of Osamu Tezuka’s most famous creations is Princess Knight,…
Daphne in the Brilliant Blue
“The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper. I cannot quite make it out.” – Annie Dillard.
Global warming is a big threat to the world; however after watching…
Podcast XIV: Fujiko is Mine
Hang onto your valuables, this time we’re delving into the car, treasure and girl chasing world of Lupin III. Or are we?
Direct: Nakama Britannica 14: The Podcast Called Fujiko Mine
iTunes: …
The World God Only Knows Volume 2
So far, Keima Katsuragi and Elsie have captured four loose souls, but, sadly for Keima, his job is far from over, with thousands of souls still waiting to be captured. Luckily a second player …
New Anime Releases 19/07/2013
New anime (and anime related) releases this week:
Naruto: Shippuuden Volume 13
Naruto Shippuden box-set 13 contains one of the biggest and most important arcs in the franchise so far. The arc doesn’t finish here but it ends surprisingly well and on a big cliffhanger;…
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises English-subtitled trailer
Hayao Miyazaki’s new film, The Wind Rises, is the fictionalised biography of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the Zero fighter planes.
The film is set to premier at the Toronto International…
Win Space Battleship Yamato on DVD!
An epic space odyssey takes to the stars in Space Battleship Yamato, the most expensive film ever made in Japan. With an out of this world budget, this intergalactic blockbuster takes viewers …
Persona 4: The Animation Volume 3
In the quiet little provincial backwater of Inaba, it seems that the murderer may still be still at large. And even as Yu and his Scooby Gang friends experience the rites of passage that every manga/anime…
The World God Only Knows Volume 1
Hell has some bad news; some souls have escaped and wormed their way into the human world, hiding in the hearts of young girls. In a desperate attempt to reclaim them, they send the demon Elsie to …
Cowboy Bebop: Blu-Ray Edition
“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought – particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.” – Woody…