Waiting in the Summer
Highschooler Kaito Kirishima (Nobunaga Shimazaki) is out with his 8 mm camera one night when he spots a dazzlingly bright light descending rapidly through the darkness toward him. The next thing,…
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin volume 1 – Activation Volume 1
Upon unwrapping my review copy of this book, I was reminded of two shocking facts: One: I’ve been a comics fan all my life – I have bookshelves HEAVING with the things – but very little…
Manga Jiman Competition 2013 Details
Calling all UK manga artists! The Japanese embassy have published information on this year’s Manga Jiman Competition. This year’s theme is ‘voyages of discovery’, and it was chosen to celebrate…
Love Lab Anime CM
A 15-second CM for the anime adaptation of Ruri Miyahara’s four-panel manga Love Lab is online and details the cast.
The story takes place at Fujisaki Girls’ Middle School which houses a collection…
Trailer for the Second Season of Tamayura
Shochiku started streaming a promotional video for the second season of the 2011 Tamayura: Hitotose anime which is going under the title Tamayura – More Aggressive.
The anime continues the story…
A letter to Momo in UK cinemas
Anime Limited just announced the upcoming UK theatrical release A Letter to Momo. A Letter to Momo follows the adventures of Momo, an 11 year old girl whose entire world has been ricked by the untimely…
Arakawa Under the Bridge and its sequel confirmed by MVM
We can confirm that Awakawa Under the Bridge and the follow-up X-Bridge will be coming Q4 on DVD, sub only. Congrats to @spoonatron
— MVMEntertainment (@MVM_UK) June 4, 2013 Read more at MVM’s…
Ten-Minute Buddha 2 Trailer
The homepage for the second part of the anime adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha manga has released a ten-minute trailer with English subtitles which was shown at last month’s Cannes Film Festival.…
Trailers for Kyoto Animation’s Free!
Kyoto Animation have released trailers for its summer anime Free! The trailers showcase Iwatobi High School’s swim team led by main character Haruka, and the second video shows his rival Rin …
Paradise Kiss Volume 3
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde.
Due to these being larger collections of the original series, this Vertical…
Final Gintama Film Trailer
The full trailer for the final Gintama movie is now online and it contains the announcement that this will be the last instalment of the anime.
The film is running under the title Gintama: The Movie:…
Knights of Sidonia Anime!!!
The July issue of Afternoon magazine announced that an anime adaptation of Tsutomu Nihei’s manga Knights of Sidonia has been green-lit. No further information has been revealed so here’s…
Naruto: Shippuuden Volume 12
To be fair, it would be hard to top the episodes that were contained in the last box set and sadly, this twelfth box set doesn’t continue the great quality of episodes and stumbles a lot of times,…
BlazBlue Anime
A new anime series based around the 2D fighter BlazBlue was revealed earlier this months at the Arc Fes/Arc Revo event. Here’s the announcement:
It is going under the name BlazBlue: Alter Memory…
Angelic Layer: Omnibus
The latest CLAMP series to be re-released in omnibus edition is Angelic Layer, a prequel to Chobits, where Misaki Suzuhara has just moved into Tokyo City to live with her aunt, Shouko. Upon arrival…