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Review: Cowboy Bebop #1

It’s my pleasure to finally be able to review the first UK volume of Cowboy Bebop, released last Monday courtesy of Beez. Was it worth the hype? Damn straight it was.

Honestly, I found this…
• 28th January 2005
Anime Review

Cowboy Bebop Volume 1

It’s a daunting task having to review such a seminal anime series as Cowboy Bebop. From the iconic image of the afro-sporting Spike taking a drag from one of his bent up old cigarettes to Yoko…

• 27th January 2005
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Oscars ’05 snub anime

The 2005 Oscar nominations have been published but unfortunately, no anime has made the final cut this year. Both Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence and Sky Blue (Korean animated film) had been in …

• 25th January 2005
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Today’s DVD releases

Today has finally seen the UK DVD debut of Beez’s Cowboy Bebop (Vols. 1 and 2); a seminal science-fiction anime series that has been sorely lacking from the UK for far too long now. Also released…

• 24th January 2005
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Review: Noir

Martin Butler has taken a look at the sombre girls-with-guns anime Noir. This is a full series review of the anime released by ADV UK last year.

The series does take a little while to properly pick…
• 24th January 2005
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Toei set up in Europe

Toei animation, who recently started to directly release their anime in the US, have announced the formation of a European division (based in France), intending it to be a “.. sales and …

• 24th January 2005
Anime Review

Noir

Mireille Bouquet is a professional assassin, one of the best in the business. When she receives a cryptic e-mail which merely reads “Make a pilgrimage for the past with me,” accompanied…

• 22nd January 2005
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Cowboy Bebop official cover-art

Beez have been kind enough to send us the official, high quality cover art for their first two volumes of the much anticipated Cowboy Bebop series (both volumes set to be released this Monday, fingers…

• 21st January 2005
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Ask Japan! coming soon

We have a new monthly article in the pipeline called ‘Ask Japan!’. Chris Stones is an English man living in Japan (originally from Hull!) and we are planning to run a feature where …

• 21st January 2005
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Advanced Review: Galerians Rion

We’ve taken an advanced look at Revolver Ent.’s 3D-CG anime Galerians: Rion, set for a UK DVD release this coming Monday.

Galerians: Rion is a culmination of influence; from the…
• 21st January 2005
Anime Review

Galerians: Rion

Galerians: Rion is a culmination of influence; from the dank, technological nightmare of Resident Evil to the ‘angst-filled kid with amazing psychic powers’ lifted straight …

• 21st January 2005
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This week’s UK anime releases

Yesterday saw both ADV and Beez release yet more anime DVDs in the UK; including the first volume of new action series Get Backers and Vols. 4 & 5 of Beez’s much delayed Gundam Wing box …

• 18th January 2005