News

Trailer for AKB0048

AKB0048’s official website is now streaming a trailer.

Synopsis:

It is the 21st century and after a devastating war that has left the Earth’s environment destroyed humanity departs for…

• 24th March 2012
Anime Review

Fairy Tail Volume 1

Fairy Tail #1 Episodes 1-12

 “In a land far, far away…”

Lucy Heartfilia is a young, pretty, and independent-minded Celestial Wizard who wants to join a guild so that she can earn her living by practising…

• 20th February 2012
Features

Spring 2012 Anime Preview

This is a preview of the shows that are expected to air in the Spring 2012 block. This season is packed full to bursting with idols, bishonen and moe from major players like Sunrise and Studio DEEN.…

• 20th February 2012
News

Bodacious Space Pirates Trailer

A trailer for the TV anime Bodacious Space Pirates has beenreleased on Bandai Channel’s streaming service.

Synopsis

High school student Marika lives in a distant galaxy known as Uminoakeboshi.…

• 7th December 2011
News

New Aquarion Evol Trailer Streamed

A new trailer for Satelight studio’s latest take the giant mecha anime Aquarion franchise has been released on Media Factory’s official YouTube channel.

Set 12,000 years after the first Aquarion…

• 4th December 2011
News

Aquarion Evol Trailer Streamed

Satelight studio’s latest take on its giant mecha anime Aquarion franchise has been released on Media Factory’s official YouTube channel.

Set 12,000 years after the first Aquarion television…

• 14th August 2011
Anime Review

Aquarion Volume 4

So here we are at the end of line, as the war between humanity and their enemies, the Shadow Angels, heads toward its conclusion! But before the final battle in the Shadow Angels’ realm of Atlandia,…

• 17th August 2010
Anime Review

Baldr Force EXE

BALDR Force EXE is one of those peculiar beasts. Based on the plot of a Japanese video game series, you’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes and swiftly moving on, but there’s a good deal more to this…

• 6th July 2010
Anime Review

Aquarion Volume 3

 When a show has such heavyweight talents behind it as those named in Aquarion’s opening credits, you can’t help but have high expectations for it.

Let’s get this thing straight from the word go:…

• 17th June 2010
Anime Review

Hellsing Ultimate Volume 1

This is my first encounter with the Hellsing franchise, but this is actually its third iteration.  It began in manga form, with Kouta Hirano creating the original manga series which debuted in…

• 16th December 2008
Anime Review

Noein Volume 2

Why is it in anime that the future is always a bleak place? I’ve always wondered this… Following up on the first volume’s cliffhanger, Haruka finds herself in Karasu’s dimension, La ‘cryma,…

• 23rd July 2007
Anime Review

Noein Volume 1

What would you do if your future self told you that you can’t save the person you love? That’s the dilemma facing schoolboy Yuu in this time travelling, dimension hopping adventure. The doomed …

• 29th March 2007
Anime Review

Heat Guy J Volume 3

I’d normally kick off a review by giving a brief overview of the plot and where the story’s headed but for this DVD I’m not going to bother. Manga Entertainment have crammed …

• 20th November 2006
Anime Review

Heat Guy J Volume 2

Heat Guy J delivers another impressively varied array of missions in which Daisuke Aurora and his philosophical android partner J fight crime on the streets of Judoh. The unstable Clair Leonelli,…

• 22nd June 2006
Anime Review

Heat Guy J Volume 1

In the city of Judoh, the Special Services Division of the Bureau of Urban Safety has created a new weapon to combat crime: a mechanical enforcement officer codenamed “J’. Alongside…

• 22nd March 2006