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Anime Review Roundup
I got an early start on Christmas last week, as I began by taking a look at the long delayed Always My Santa. This should have been here last Christmas, but through circumstances beyond Manga’s control, it had to come out this year instead. It’s just...
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MCM Expo News and Anime Review Roundup
MCM News First It’s that time of year again, when people in the East End of London are confronted by men with spiky blonde hair, big red coats, and unfeasibly large guns (do people still cosplay as Vash the Stampede?), when they are accosted by...
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Anime Review Roundup
These are X clips, these clips are deceased, they have kicked the bucket… Today, X The TV Series makes its UK DVD debut, and to mark the occasion, we have two more clips, courtesy of MVM for you to partake of, and tantalise those taste buds with....
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Anime Review Roundup
Gantz: The Movie(s) The summer drought of anime news seems to be over, and juicy titbits of gossip are beginning to ooze out of the industry again. We must be getting close to convention season. We begin with the announcement that Gantz is going...
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Anime Review Roundup
Last week, the server burped, which means that this week’s Review Roundup is a rollover, with an estimated review jackpot of seven titles. But first, the olds (like the news, but not as current). The Winners of the Death Note boxsets are…...
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Anime Review Roundup
Forthcoming Anime Events in the UK It’s getting to festival season again, and there are plenty of things to do if you want to get away from those television screens and PC monitors and experience the real world. Every year there is the Sci-fi...
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Anime Review Roundup
Death Note Competition For me, 2008 was the year of the Death Note. The manga came to the UK, the live action feature films, and most pertinently, the animated television series. I had great pleasure in reviewing the anime for this site, and you...
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Anime Review Roundup
ADV No More! In case you have missed the news, last week ADV ceased to exist as a commercial entity, as detailed in a complex emission of legalese from their website, beginning with, “A.D.VISION, INC. CONCLUDES SERIES OF ASSET TRANSACTIONS”. Not...
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Anime Review Roundup
It was another bumper week for anime reviews last week, and I kicked things off early with Slayers Try: Volume 1. Yup, another series of Slayers comes to the UK, hot on the heels of Slayers Next, and this time, the pint-sized sorceress and her...
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Anime Review Roundup
It’s a genuine review roundup this week, although it’s not because news doesn’t exist out there. I just haven’t had the time to read any. But I will make up for it with a bumper selection of reviews, beginning with the big one of the week, Darker...
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Anime Review Roundup
Manga Twits Ahoy! Yup, another announcement via Twitter. In this age of global communication and information diaspora, it seems that we are following a trend towards a lack of communication skills and soundbite hell. No matter. Someone at UK...
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Anime Review Roundup
The Good News or The Bad News The Bad News – Revelation Hiatus The good news isn’t all that amazing, while the bad news isn’t all that shocking, but it’s all the news I have, so take heed. Revelation Films, who for the last few years have been...
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Anime Review Roundup
Mnemosyne has been licensed… By a twit So what is it with these DVD companies anyway? They have set budgets for marketing and advertising, they have PR companies to facilitate this, to get their message out in the ether, they even have their own...
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Anime Review Roundup
Release Date Changes It’s summertime, the weather’s fine, the days are long, and the lager is cheap. It’s no surprise then that anime isn’t a priority… Your release schedule is barrelling forward like a juggernaut, relentlessly crushing all in its...
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Anime Review Roundup (Updated)
(Update) The Next Big Thing From Beez Is Beez Entertainment certainly bring the choicest of anime to these shores, last year it was Haruhi Suzumiya, this year it has been Gundam 00 and Gurren Lagann. But wandering past the BBFC this afternoon I...
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Anime Review Roundup
Anime on Film4 (And it isn’t Ghibli!) Film4 have shown perhaps the greatest interest in anime of all the terrestrial channels, but till now it has been solely directed at the Ghibli catalogue. For a change however, they are bringing us something...
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Anime Review Roundup
The 60 Billion Double Dollar Question Has An Answer It was Anime Expo in the US this weekend just past, and there has been so much news that I have ignored… Well, it’s hard to get enthused about shows that won’t be released for six to twelve...
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Anime Review Roundup
Site Change: Online Anime! It took me long enough, but I’ve finally got round to putting semi-permanent links up to the legal online anime that is currently ringing my bell. That’s the list there on the right. No, your right. And I admit that the...
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Anime Review Roundup
It’s Not A Transformer, OK! The world may be riding a wave of Transformers hype at the moment courtesy of the latest 2 and half hour waste of celluloid, but Transformers hype is nothing compared to Gundam hype in Japan. Michael Bay will only get...
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Anime Review Roundup
The Funimation Video Portal Is Back, With a Padlock Following the previous week’s security breaches, the Funimation Video Portal, which streams a whole host of their shows, and the shows of their partners to the world, was down for essential...
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Anime Review Roundup
Funimation Online Anime Update After last week’s brouhaha, you’d expect Funimation to have sorted something out, and they did. While their deal with Toei regarding One Piece is still up in the air, they still have ongoing simulcasts of Fullmetal...
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Anime Review Roundup
There’s always one idiot… If you remember last week, I reported that Funimation had new episodes of One Piece due for online simulcast. Well forget it. It’s not going to happen, at least not until they beef up their security. The thing about...
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MCM Expo News and Anime Review Roundup
The Expo Announcements Another year and another Expo has passed by, and once again I trawl through the Interweb to glean what news snippets there are. All the big players were there, ADV, Manga, Beez, MVM and Revelation, but not everyone had...
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Anime Review Roundup
Bubblegum Crisis Live Action I’m sure you’re all riding the surf of success following the Dragonball Z movie, and are looking forward eagerly to the next live action anime adaptation to be announced. Well wait no more, as it turns out that the...
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