After the knee-jerk debate caused by the news that UK libraries were being offered recommended (and screened) Japanese manga graphic novels to encourage reading amongst adolescents and teenagers,…
One day later than planned, this is our weekly UK anime chart based off of Play.com’s best selling UK anime DVDs.
1. Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Vol.2 (Manga Ent.) 2. Trigun…With the Easter Holidays fast approaching, Play.com have organised a respectable anime DVD sale. Featuring mostly ADV and Manga Ent. titles from around £10 upwards, we suggest you take…
Courtesy of Anime-On-Line, we have posted a small image of the Yu Yu Hakusho art-box. This limited edition release also includes a Yu Yu Hakusho t-shirt and of course, the first DVD volume of this…
Today I’ve taken a look at MVM’s penultimate (seventh) volume of Kiddy Grade, which was released the UK the Monday before last.
“Despite there being an intangibly inspirational…With MinamiCon now winding down, news that was revealed at the convention is starting to filter through and it’s MVM again (“more acquisitions than months in the year”) who…
Despite there being an intangibly inspirational quality to the look and feel of Kiddy Grade, I still find myself struggling to be seriously interested by this show. And while the slew of gratuitous…
In a recent interview posted on Mecha Anime HQ, Bandai’s Jerry Chu announced his companies (US) acquisition of Gundam SEED: Destiny.
The interview also touches on the precarious state…
After recently posting the DVD cover-art for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex #3, we have now uploaded the different ‘slip-cover’ artwork too.
Also, the usually reliable…
A recent news report on the Anime News Service surprisingly suggests that eccentric Hollywood actor Robin Williams is an anime fan. Speaking in an interview posted by ‘The Argus Leader…
I have tonight posted my review of MVM’s Love Hina #6 (out now in the UK); the concluding volume of this “surreal romantic-comedy”, loved by some, hated by others.
“And…UK anime conventions are back on our minds this weekend as Southampton is invaded by British cosplayers’ for the annual Minami-Con.
While we’re not sure if ADV and MVM (or any other…
With my levels of expectation at an all time high for this show, I approached this concluding (sixth) volume of Love Hina full of enthusiasm. I was looking for closure; a satisfying end to the on/off…
Dragon Half comes in the sub-category of crazy – the type of show that (much like Excel Saga) seems particularly Japanese in its “out-there’ humour. The exaggerated cartoon…
UKAnime.com have posted the DVD cover-art for the upcoming UK release of (Salaryman) Kintaro (courtesy of Artsmagic UK). The first volume is due on the 2nd of May.
In other UK release news, Play.com…
A recent press release from Sweatdrop Studios (Sweatdrop are a “group of seventeen UK-based artists working to create manga-styled comics.”) has announced their inclusion in…
Today sees the first wave of MVM’s March anime releases crash their way into the UK with both the seventh (and penultimate) volume of Kiddy Grade and the final (sixth) volume of Love Hina …
It’s Monday and by now you should know that means another fascinating look into the cut-throat world of Play.com’s best selling UK anime DVDs.
1. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex…Today’s review comes from Martin Butler in the form of Production I.G’s vampire showcase; Blood – The Last Vampire. This is a notoriously short film, but one that packs more…
Set on a Japanese military air base at the beginning of the Vietnam War, a dangerous new type of monster is discovered: shapeshifting creatures known as teropterids, which feed on human blood.…
