The writers at Anime UK News choose their favourite reads of 2023 – and look forward to 2024!

The Anime UK News team choose their favourite anime from 2023 – let us know what your favourites are too!

A Place Further Than the Universe receives a home video update, plus we have multiple new licenses for home video including Granbelm, Somali and the Forest Spirit, and the Vinyl soundtracks for Dorohedoro and Polygon Pictures' Godzilla Film Trilogy.

Crunchyroll premieres the first two episodes of the long-awaited Solo Leveling anime in the UK.

As Welcome Back, Alice approaches its conclusion, the cast are faced with choices to make. The relationship between Yohei, Kei and Yui continues to worsen as their feelings get more complicated.

Kate and her living doll Emilico have passed their debut and enter the Children’s Building at Shadows House. Kate is determined to learn all she can about the power structure of the vast and sinister mansion – but who can she trust?

The anime may have exploded in popularity, but how does the original source material fare for Bocchi the Rock?

The Shiunji Family Children is a new series from Rent-A-Girlfriend creator Reiji Miyajima, but rather than harem antics, this manga seems focused on telling a story that's more thoughtful and heartfelt. For now, at least.

Chaos ensues in the Underworld when Eros shoots the ruthless Lord Hades with one of his arrows. Now Hades is fated to fall in love with the next person he sees!

Hari Shin and Taemu Kang start practicing their fake relationship, but an accident with a potted plant might ruin all of their progress and reveal Hari's identity.

A yuri manga with Class-S tropes and vampires? What could go wrong? Our review of the first volume is here.

With Yuki having discovered the existence of vampires, Volume 2 of Black Cat & the Vampire leaves him with plenty of questions that need answering. Not least, what will become of his relationship with Jean now he knows the truth about him being one of the vampires?

The latest volumes of the romance series are out now, but what new challenges await for the couple? Find out in our review!

Ogami-san keeps herself isolated from her classmates for fear that she will blurt out her inner fantasies about the male body and sex, but when she meets Yaginuma-kun, she realises she might not be the only one isolating themselves...

Minato has escaped the corporate daily grind to take over his grandfather’s shabby laundromat. So why does he feel so hot and bothered when a friendly, good-looking high-schooler starts using the facilities?

The first post-Ash Ketchum series makes its UK debut in the BBC's first anime premiere in 20 years.