Anime Review
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Britain gets a release of Japan's first anime feature film. Shame the film is wartime propaganda aimed at children.
Opinion
Feature: A Guide to the Odagiri Effect
“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.” – Alphonse Karr.
It is a question that many anime fans have asked themselves: what is it about high school male sports…
Features
Book Review – The Anime Encyclopedia: 3rd Revised Edition
“If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?” – T. H. Huxley.
First published in 2001, with an expanded edition in 2006, …
News
Latest Manga Entertainment Podcast
The latest official Manga podcast is available to download now from the Manga UK website. According to the organisers:
The vertically-enhanced host, Jeremy Graves, is joined by the newly-healed,…
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Podcast IX: “Does Anime Reflect Japanese Culture?” With Jonathan Clements!
Breaking from our usual schedule of complaining about how things were better in [Insert Hippest Decade Here], this time we’re joined by author, translator, occasional voice director…
Features
Scotland Loves Anime 2011 – Edinburgh
Now that the second Scotland Loves Anime has come to an end, I have the film festival blues. I really enjoyed my first experience at this event and the travel from the East Midlands to Scotland was…
Features
Celebration of MangaUK’s 20th Anniversary
For 20 years now MangaUK has brought so much anime to our shores; from the VHS video to Blu-ray, good old British dubbed voice acting (I still have my Laughing Target video tape) and licensing the…
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Leeds Young People’s Film Festival Screening Anime
Leeds Young Peoples Film Festival sent an e-mail containing news which should thrill any anime fan! The festival is going to screen anime including Laputa Castle in the Sky, Trigun Badlands Rumble,…
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Irish Film Institute Anime to host anime weekend
the Irish Film Institute will host a weekend of anime in March.
Guests throughout the weekend will be Andrew Partridge and Hugh K. David, who both have extensive experience of the anime industry,…
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Competitions are back!
By popular demand, competitions are back! Our first of many competitions to come is offering copies of the amazing book by Jonathan Clements, Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime…
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There’s a Schoolgirl Milky Crisis in the UK
Schoolgirl Milky Crisis isn’t hentai. It’s actually the title of Jonathan Clements‘ forthcoming book, which collects his opinions and anecdotes on the anime and manga …
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Jonathan Clements talks about anime porn at seminar
Otaku News have linked up a streaming video presentation of Jonathan Clements’s “Five Girls Name Moe: The Anime Erotic” seminar for the “Swansea Animation Days”…
Features
The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917
The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 (Revised & Expanded Edition) Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy 2007 Titan Books 896 pp £19.99
This is one book that no …
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McCarthy & Clements book signing in London
For those of you who intend to buy the newly revised “Anime Encyclopedia”, authors Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy will be on hand at Farringdons book store in the London Barbican…