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Short Peace Teasers

Shochiku Films will be releasing an anthology film called Short Peace which collects four stories by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, Steamboy). The film in the first teaser is Hajime Katoki’s sci-fi…

• 2nd July 2013
News

A Town Where You Live TV Ad

The summer anime season is about to kick off soon and the adverts are coming thick and fast. Here is a commercial for Gonzo’s adaptation of the manga A Town Where You Live (Kimi no Iru Machi) by Kouji…

• 1st July 2013
Anime Review

Hellsing Ultimate: 5-8

Back in the early noughties, the original Hellsing was a big hit. The 2001 TV series was a lot of fun, and overcame the occasionally wonky animation (from the notoriously occasionally wonky Studio…

• 28th June 2013
Anime Review

Blood-C

The setting is idyllic. The old temple overlooks a peaceful lake and the priest’s daughter and shrine maiden, Saya Kisaragi (Nana Mizuki/Alexis Tipton) sets out singing every day on her…

• 26th June 2013
Manga Review

Tokyo Babylon: Omnibus

Continuing their wonderful tradition of re-releasing CLAMP’s work in gorgeous omnibus editions; Dark Horse has brought Tokyo Babylon back to the West, a prequel to the infamous X, set nine …

• 26th June 2013
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Hell Prince: Devils and Realist PV

A video for Hell Prince: Devils and Realist (Makai Oji: devils and Realist) started streaming on YouTube yesterday on Pony Canyon’s channel and it features narration from lead seiyuu Takuya …

• 26th June 2013
News

Genshiken Second Season PV

A promotional video for Genshiken: Second Season was placed on the anime’s website today and it gives viewers a glimpse of the new characters and the seiyuu performing.

Synopsis

On a particular…

• 25th June 2013
News

Gurren Lagann to be released on Blu-Ray

Anime Limited have announced that they will release the highly acclaimed mecha series Gurren Lagann will brought out as both a complete DVD box set and a two-part Blu-Ray collection.

The DVD collection…

• 24th June 2013
Anime Review

Kids on the Slope

“Jazz is not dead … it just smells funny.” – Frank Zappa.

MVM clearly have high hopes with this series. For starters it was only released this year so it has been a quick turnaround…

• 23rd June 2013
Anime Review

Project A-Ko

Project A-Ko is a reviewer’s nightmare. After the end credits have rolled, initial impressions have coalesced, and the infectious ’80s guitar pop of ‘Follow Your Dreams’…

• 23rd June 2013
News

Steins;Gate: Part 1 Release Details

The first part of Manga Entertainment’s release of Steins;Gate on Blu-ray and DVD is less than a month on July 15th and Anime UK News has been handed a press release giving us details including running-time…

• 20th June 2013