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Anime Review Roundup
Manga's Man In The Know Speaks Manga Entertainment's public face, Jerome Mazandarani is gearing up for the forthcoming MCM Expo by talking to the Anime Chronicle Podcast. UK Anime.Net have the link to the podcast, as well as a transcript for you...
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Anime Review Roundup
Otakon News There was another anime convention in the US this weekend, and as usual, all eyes were on what new licence announcements there were. It's of interest to us in the UK, because what gets licensed in the US, may just eventually make its...
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Anime Review Roundup
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya No, it doesn't mean that you get a week off from my eternal fascination with The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya news. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya is the recent feature film adaptation of the fourth...
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Anime Review Roundup
Gundam Free For All The big Gundam event has begun in preparation for the simultaneous worldwide release of Gundam Unicorn on Blu-ray. From now until the end of April, several classic Gundam series will be available for streaming from various...
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Anime Review Roundup
Begun, the Summer Wars Have There weren’t any anime reviews to round up last week, hence no review roundup, but this week it’s back to normal service, with three reviews of anime new and old for you to peruse. But I guess I missed out on...
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Anime Review Roundup
It’s been a slow news week when it comes to anime in the UK, at least I’ve found little to be inspired, or concerned by. I had a moment at the weekend when I learned that Bandai Entertainment had put some episodes up on its Youtube channel, offering...
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Anime Review Roundup
Rivers of Blood No, not that one. This is news instead that the live action Blood: The Last Vampire movie is coming to the UK. It’s a familiar story, where vampires prey on humans, and a cute young girl kicks vampire butt. But this is no Buffy,...
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Anime Review Roundup (Updated)
The Recession Bites 20-20 hindsight comes into effect here, as it’s usually the niche industries with low profit margins and product volume that get hit first, and much as I embrace the popularity of anime, it’s still not a patch on that of...
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The Anime Review of the Year 2008 Part 2
And so we come to the countdown of my personal top ten anime picks of the year. I previously mentioned, before I was cruelly struck down by flu, that this year I had managed to see a staggering 50 or so new release titles, a figure that’s amazing...
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The Anime Review of the Year 2008 Part 1
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Never has that statement been more appropriate than this year, as the anime industry decided to get a head start on everyone else when it came to the recession. At the end of 2007 in the US,...
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Anime Review Roundup
Not so much news as it is olds… That's the thing about these scheduled blogs, you polish off your delicate prose, and post your missive proudly to the ether, and then an hour later there's something else to write about. Rather than hog webspace...
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Anime Gets Conventional
There’s always anime news out there. There’s some titbit, or company announcement, something to keep the fan websites ticking over, although on occasion it does verge on the wild rumour or utterly trivial. Then summer comes along, convention season,...
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