Bleach The Movie 3: Fade To Black (Blu-ray Details)
Save the girl, save the other world!
A mysterious figure has broken into Mayuri Kurotsuchi's laboratory in the Seireitei. Rukia witnesses this catastrophe, and the intruders abduct Rukia as she feels something inside of her fade away.
Meanwhile, in the World of the Living, Ichigo and Kon experience a strange disturbance and head to Kisuke Urahara's shop for some answers. When Kisuke informs...
Bleach The Movie 2: The Diamond Dust Rebellion (Blu-ray Details)
When a caravan transporting the King's Seal is attacked, Toshiro Hitsugaya and Squad 10 are on the ready. As they prepare to protect the treasure that holds immeasurable power, Hitsugaya suddenly abandons the scene alongside the thieves and becomes one of the accused. In response, the Soul Society calls for his capture and execution.
Upon hearing the edict, Substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo...
Bleach The Movie: Memories Of Nobody (Blu-ray Details)
Ichigo Kurosaki has never been an average teenage boy. For as long as he can remember, has been able to see and communicate with the spirits of the recently departed. Now, Ichigo is a Soul Reaper, one whose duty it is to send lost souls off to the world of the dead while fighting malevolent spirits known as Hollows.
Ichigo's already weird existence gets even weirder when he and fellow Soul...
Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts Complete Series Collection (DVD Details)
When a fight breaks out at Fumizuki Academy, nobody throws a single punch. Instead, the students utilize the school's technology to summon Avatars, pint-sized stand-ins with battle powers based on academic ability. That "academic ability" part is bad news for Yoshii: he's an idiot, stuck in lowly Class F with the slackers. If these misfits want to escape their dump of a classroom and earn some...
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (Blu-ray Details)
A.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The expanded new Section 9 confronts a rash of complicated incidents, and investigations reveal that an ultra-wizard hacker named the Puppeteer is behind the entire series of events.
In the midst of all, Batou, who was stalking...
Fairy Tail: Part 2 (DVD Details)
Across the Fiore kingdom, wizards join guilds and make their pay by filling magical needs - but one guild has a reputation as the roughest, rowdiest, most dangerous of all: Fairy Tail!
In the midst of a mission to break the curse over Galuna Island, Natsu and the gang face a band of deranged mages trying to resurrect the monstrous demon Deliora. Gray's determined to put the freeze on the...
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (Blu-ray Details)
To stop the unstoppable you need the irresistible. To kill the unkillable, you need someone for whom death no longer has a meaning. And to catch the perfect serial killer, you need the one person who knows his methods the best... his last victim!
Murdered and reborn, no longer human, the female cyborg Balot exists for only one reason: to track down the man who killed her and bring him to...
Naruto Shippuden: The Movie 1 & 2 Double (Blu-ray Details)
Movie 1:
Demons that once almost destroyed the world, are revived by someone. To prevent the world from being destroyed, the demon has to be sealed and the only one who can do it is the shrine maiden Shion from the country of demons, who has two powers; one is sealing demons and the other is predicting the deaths of humans. This time Naruto's mission is to guard Shion, but she predicts Naruto's...
Phantom: Requiem For The Phantom - Part 2 (DVD Details)
A young man with no memories fights to salvage his humanity when he's forced into a life of murder by a dangerous crime syndicate called Inferno. The organization gives him a new name, Zwei, and molds him into a perfect killing machine, a meticulous instrument of death created to obey his masters' every deadly command.
Zwei's not the only puppet controlled by Inferno; Ein is a girl as beautiful...
Fairy Tail: Part 1 (DVD Details)
In the Kingdom of Fiore, powerful wizards make their living by joining magical guilds and contracting out their services to become "wizards for hire." Harnessing the forces of Dragon Fire, Ice, Weaponry, and the Zodiac, four young wizards of the infamous guild Fairy Tail team up to seek their fortunes. Growing stronger with every mission, they travel the countryside helping people and battling...
Naruto Shippuden: Box Set 8 (2 Discs) (DVD Details)
Naruto's new jutsu Rasen Shuriken is unbelievably powerful - but because of the risks to the user, Tsunade forbids Naruto to use it! When Jiraiya returns to the village, Naruto seeks his guidance, and the two head off to a hot springs resort to work on a solution. Meanwhile, Kakashi leads a team in search of Orochimaru's hideout, and when Naruto hears about it, he begs to join them.
Contains...
Gantz 2: Perfect Answer (DVD Details)
Gantz is based on a hit manga series created by Hiroya Oku and stars leading Japanese actors Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters from Iwo Jima) and Kenichi Matsuyama (Death Note, Detroit Metal City).
Gantz 2: Perfect Answer begins several months after the events of the first film. Kurono (Ninomiya Kazunari) is still fighting aliens under the order of Gantz and he is close to reaching the score he needs...
Tekken: Blood Vengeance (DVD Details)
The stage for a final showdown is prepared as Anna Williams and the G Corporation set a trap for her sister Nina, who works for Jin Kazama, head of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Both Jin and his father, Kazuya Mishima of the G Corporation, seek to possess and control the M Cell that will unlock the destructive supernatural powers buried within the Mishima bloodline.
Kazuya dispatches Ling Xiaoyu to a...
Samurai Girls (DVD Details)
Muneakiru Yagyu is a gifted student of the samurai way, but until he arrived at his dojo, he never knew just how gifted he truly was. There, beautiful girl Jubei falls naked from the sky and right into his arms, and when they kiss, he magically transforms her into a powerful master samurai. So, naturally, every beautiful girl at the dojo can't wait to kiss him now! And some, like the sexy Gisen,...
K-ON! - Volume 4 (DVD Details)
The school festival is here again but Yui is out sick. The girls try to make do with Azusa on lead guitar and suddenly Yui shows up. But her guitar playing is just too perfect and she's seems to be too polite to everyone. What has happened to Yui and will she be make it to the performance in time?
Melancholy has set in on a cold winter day as all the girls face some troubles doing their own...
Origin: Spirits of the Past (Blu-ray Details)
A young boy named Agito enters a forbidden sanctuary where a glowing machine resides. This machine preserves a young girl named Toola, who has a mission entrusted to her from the past. Three-hundred years into the future, the Earth's environment has been ruined by the interference of mankind, and in between the 300 years, the forest has come to life and is at constant war with man.
It is an...
Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor (DVD Details)
Two years have passed since Hei and Yin escaped the Syndicate after the events of the first season. Making their way to Russia, Hei encounters a young girl named Suou Pavlichenko, whose family is gradually pulled into the war between contractors and various intelligence factions. Meanwhile, Misaki Kirihara has quit her position in Foreign Affairs to begin her own investigations into Hei, the...
Ghost in the Shell: 2.0 (Blu-ray Details)
In 1995, the animated cyberpunk action-thriller GHOST IN THE SHELL stunned moviegoers and anime fans alike by seamlessly merging traditional animation with the latest CG imagery to create an intelligent and artistic sci-fi spectacle unlike anything seen before. The film enjoyed both critical and popular acclaim at the international box office before going on to reach even greater success on DVD....
K-ON! - Volume 3 (DVD Details)
Azusa has just joined the Light Music Club and she is shocked that all they do is drink tea and eat snacks instead of practicing. The rest of the band reassures her that they will practice hard at their training camp, but despite Azusa's objections the girls end up playing all day at the beach.
Azusa soon learns that reason why the band plays so well is because they have so much fun together....
Eden Of The East Movie 2: Paradise Lost (Blu-ray Details)
The story of political and subversive intrigue in the series finally reaches endgame. Even as the law enforcement net tightens around Saki and her fellow Eden of the East associates over alleged terrorist activities, the complex web surrounding the mysterious Mr. Outside is finally untangled as the remaining Selecao attempt to outmaneuver one another. Takizawa's memories and identity are also...
Redline (Blu-ray Details)
Redline is the biggest, most popular, illegal and most dangerous races in all of the galaxy. ‘Sweet’ JP has always wanted to be the winner of this event, but after being caught up with the wrong crowd for years, an accident at the qualifying Yellowline event lands him in hospital. However, when the secret location of the Redline event is revealed to be the incredibly hostile Roboworld, two of the...
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (DVD Details)
It is mid-december, and SOS Brigade chief Haruhi Suzumiya announces that the Brigade is going to hold a Christmas party in their clubroom, with Japanese hotpot for dinner. The brigade members Kyon, Yuki Nagato, Mikuru Asahina and Itsuki Koizumi start preparing everything for the party, such as costumes and decorations. But a couple of days later, Kyon arrives at school only to find that Haruhi is...
Naruto Shippuden: Box Set 7 (2 Discs) (DVD Details)
Asuma and Shikamaru have to think on their feet as they face the mind-boggling jutsu of the Akatsuki pair Hidan and Kakuzu. At the last minute, the Akatsuki are called away, but not before dealing a fatal blow to a revered shinobi of the Leaf. The devastated ninja left behind can think only of revenge, but Tsunade is opposed to the scheme until anoffer of help arrives from an unexpected source.
K-ON! - Volume 2 (DVD Details)
As the Light Music Club rehearses for their performance at the school festival, they realize that they're not officially registered as a club. They need to quickly find a faculty advisor, but that's not something that a little blackmail can't fix. As their new club advisor, Miss Yamanaka coaches Yui to become the frontman of the band and pushes her to the point of losing her voice. Mio is forced...
RideBack: The Complete Series Collection (DVD Details)
After an injury forces Rin to trade her stage career for college life, she finds new thrills as a member of the RideBack Club. When she discovers an unusual connection with one machine in particular - Fuego - she is forced into the middle of a revolution. The tyrannical new government rules with an iron fist, and Rin is reluctant to take them on. But as her dearest friends suffer and the...
Black Butler: Series 1 - Part 2 (DVD Details)
Sebastian Michaelis is more than just one hell of a butler. He's a lonely boy's everything. Summoned from darkness, Sebastian serves Ciel with a sly smile. He brews the morning tea with care, gently dresses his ward in the daintiest of robes, and quashes the Young Master's enemies with a flourish! But following orders can be quite the bore, and Sebastian grows ever so hungry...
Before he can...
The Melancholy Of Haruhi-Chan Suzumiya & Nyoron! Churuya-san Collection 2 (DVD Details)
The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya:
In these animated short episodes, based on the comical spin-off manga, the characters are presented in cute little versions of themselves and focus each of their unique quirks. Haruhi is even more outrageous with her twisted understanding of Valentine's Day and Halloween, Mikuru is just as clueless as ever and Yuki is an ero-game addict.
Nyoron! Churuya-s...
Dance in the Vampire Bund (DVD Details)
When Mina Tepes - queen of the vampires - suddenly appears in Japan to establish a colony for her blood-sucking brethren, Akira Kaburagi's world will never be the same. As a boy, Akira vowed to serve the ruler of the night, and now he must fulfill his destiny by protecting Mina from those who would dethrone her!
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino OVA (DVD Details)
It's business as usual for the Social Welfare Agency as Marco and Angelica bring down a Five Republics Faction safe house. Meanwhile, Jean and Rico travel to Venice to do a job on a local Mafioso in bed with terrorists.
When the bullets stop flying, Triela sorts through the wreckage of her showdown with Pinocchio, and Jean is haunted by visions of a tragic past.
Freedom: The Complete Collection (DVD Details)
The year is 2267 and, following a global catastrophe that rendered the Earth uninhabitable, mankind has settled in a vast, domed moon colony originally intended to be a stepping stone for manned space missions to Mars. Known as Eden, this artificial environment provides a peaceful, albeit heavily regulated, existence for millions of people. Among them is 15-year-old Takeru, who, along with many...
Anime Review Roundup
Get Set For The Expo
It’s that time of year again. Next weekend sees the annual May MCM Expo in London, and anime and genre fans will be congregating once more to partake of bargains, meet the stars, learn of the latest news, and get free hugs. So...
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Anime Review Roundup
Not Quite Dead?
You may have thought it was all over for Beez Entertainment, after Bandai pulled the plug on their English language home video distribution arms in North America and Europe back in January. Things have been quiescent on the Beez...
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Anime Review Roundup
Where’s Everyone Been?
It’s been three weeks since my last anime review roundup. It’s not my fault that there has been a veritable drought of new anime being released in the UK. Just like the real drought though, there’s plenty of metaphorical wet...
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Anime Review Roundup
A Week Of Kazé
It’s a brief review roundup this week, and it comprises a fair bit of Kazé tidbits. The first thing to note is that hot on the heels of Viz Media’s announcement last week of the acquisition of the Berserk movies, Kazé followed up...
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MCM Expo News and Anime Review Roundup
The Latest News From Birmingham
There’s been another gathering of the great and good this weekend, this time at the Midlands MCM Expo in Birmingham. The most notable representative of the UK anime scene present at the event was Manga Entertainment,...
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Anime Review Roundup
Manga Entertainment Reach Out and Touch Someone
It’s all about media presence these days, engaging with your fans, and with your customers, and Manga Entertainment have been the most active of the UK anime distributors in doing this, with an...
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MVM Licence Deluge
Okay, for someone like Sentai in the US, it may be a drip, but for a UK company, and for MVM in particular, announcing three licenses in one week is a deluge, especially as one of the titles will be their first venture into the...
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Anime Review Roundup
My New Crunchyroll Treat Is...
Occult Academy! The recent news that NISA has licensed Occult Academy for US Blu-ray release has nudged me into making it a Crunchyroll priority. It doesn’t always happen thus, but often when a Crunchyroll property...
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Anime Review Roundup
Can a teenaged delinquent and a shy girl who exists as his right hand have a happy ending to their relationship? That’s the question posed by Midori Days: Volume 3, with perhaps the most outlandish premise ever conceived for an anime romantic comedy....
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Anime Review Roundup
No news is good news. It’s the first week in 2012 that no anime company has closed its doors, downsized, or announced that it is suing someone. No releases have been cancelled, downgraded, or delayed. Nothing much of substance has happened; I can...
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Anime Review Roundup
It Never Rains, But It Pours: Part 1
I had thought 2008 was anime’s Horrible Anus, the year when everything fell apart, when the bubble burst and companies dropped like flies. Well 2012 is turning out to be a Horribler Anus, as the New Year’s...
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Happy New Year, My Arse!
Where Bandai Goes, Beez Follows
It’s been a miserable New Year if you’re an anime fan, and at this point there doesn’t seem to be any light on the horizon. On the 2nd of January, the announcement came from across the pond, just in time for last...
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Anime Review Roundup (updated)
Bye Bye Bandai... update
Following yesterday's bombshell regarding Bandai Entertainement's retreat from distribution, Anime News Network has posted an interview with Bandai Entertainment's Ken Iyadomi that states the reasons for, and the timeline...
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Anime Review Roundup
MVM Have Two Licences Forthcoming
Just a heads up, as MVM announced today on their Facebook page that they have acquired two new titles for UK release. They say that they have never been released in this country before, and all being well, they...
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Anime Review Roundup
Facebooking the Tweets
Once upon a time, companies used to issue press releases, hard information that you could take the bank, could rely upon, until said information would be retracted or altered in a subsequent press release. Now it's all...
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Anime Review Roundup
Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor - Blu-ray Cancelled
Or should I say postponed? Season 2 of the fan favourite Darker Than Black was set to be Manga Entertainment's last big hitter of the year, coming out on DVD and Blu-ray just when eager...
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Anime Review Roundup
Once again I've been left chasing after the bandwagon long after it has left the village. This time it's for Hanasaku Iroha, the most talked about slice-of-life anime this summer just past. Its wonderful collection of characters, its gentle story,...
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Online Anime Bonanza
Anime on Demand has finally been catching up on their autumn announcements the past couple of weeks, following the debut, and subsequent delay of Persona 4: The Animation. The first episodes of Mirai Nikki are up, a concept...
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MCM Expo News and Anime Review Roundup
The Expo News…
Another expo has been and gone, and I was so bloated from Diwali sweets that I couldn't be asked to shift from my seat in front of the inaugural Indian Grand Prix to attend the Industry Panel… That's my excuse and I'm sticking to...
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Anime Review Roundup
Persona 4: The Animation Not So-Simulcast
When will people learn to read calendars? Because of a mistake on the French side of things, Anime on Demand's streams of Persona 4 will henceforth be on a one-week delay. Before we start campaigning to...
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Anime Review Roundup
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Continues On Blu-ray
Haruhi Suzumiya won't appear on Blu-ray until February 2012 at the earliest. That was the announcement from Manga Entertainment this week, after they discovered that the Blu-ray check discs...
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Anime Review Roundup
New Anime Coming to the UK Soon and Sooner
Another week, another batch of reviews, and some more news to share.
Manga Entertainment have been Twittering again. This time, to celebrate the acquisition of 9000 twats, or whatever the character...
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Anime Review Roundup
It's The New Anime Season Again
Every thirteen weeks it's the same thing, the anime production houses announce the new shows that they will be airing, or the old shows that will be continuing, and for the last couple of years, that's when fans in...
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Anime Review Roundup
Manga licence news. Brighter Than White…
…Is the tag line for a detergent commercial. The reverse is one of the most striking anime series around from the inimitable Studio Bones. Last week Manga Entertainment confirmed via Twitter that Darker...
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Anime Review Roundup
MVM’s New Licence Is…
MVM aren’t as prolific when it comes to releasing anime as they once were, but they certainly haven’t abandoned the UK market, and given some of the titles they have released in the past, I make certain to sit up and pay...
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Anime Review Roundup
Two reviews for you last week, beginning with what for me has been the surprise of the summer season, Birdy The Mighty: Decode 02. It's a show with a patently daft title, and the gender-bending premise of a hot alien secret agent fused with a high...
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Anime Review Roundup
Anime on Demand's New Shows Starts Streaming
It's a rollover! Or rather a deficit of news (including an annoying false alarm about Dragonball Z), and not too many reviews, convinced me to skip a week of my usual Review Roundups. Anime On Demand...
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Anime Review Roundup
Xam'd Lost Memories Part 2 Blu-ray Cancelled By Manga
The third time was definitely not the charm with this hi-def anime, indeed it looks as if it is another nail in the coffin of long running anime series on Blu-ray in the UK, at least for now....
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Anime Review Roundup
The BBFC Scythe Their Way Through Another Anime
Sensationalist enough for you? The anime in question is MVM's forthcoming Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny, and to set the record straight, the BBFC don't object to any of the anime series itself. It's...
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Anime Review Roundup
Two reviews for you last week, and it was one disappointment followed by a pleasant surprise. The funny thing is that both disappointment and surprise stemmed from the staple anime ingredient of fan service. First up was Shikabane Hime Corpse...
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Why did it have to be Bleach? It did start off promisingly enough; with a very appealing first season, but since then the series has become...
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Review for Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts Complete Series Collection (Review) (DVD)
Practically the first Japanese word that anime fans learn is ‘Baka’. It’s human nature that we all use dictionaries to look at the...
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Review for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (Review) (Blu-ray)
Five years after its UK DVD release, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society is back for its Blu-ray debut....
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Review for Fairy Tail: Part 2 (Review) (DVD)
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Review for Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (Review) (Blu-ray)
I always approach 18-rated anime with a distinct wariness. It stems from my initial exposure to the medium in my teens. It’s when...
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Sherlock Hound is great for the Miyazaki episodes, otherwise it's typical kids eighties anime fare. Noein is genius,...
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oh no. this could get expensive!! I already ordered Sherlock Hound / Noein/ Guyver from zavvi. Did I do good Jits? I should...
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Now Manga are tweeting that the HMV sale will begin next Monday, 28th June.
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"You're not thinking fourth dimensionally, Marty!"
Thanks for the spot!
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The next Evangelion movie will be released on DVD and Blu-ray some time before June 2010? Did I miss something or do you mean...
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Fortunately it isn't something I have to do too often these days, but this Manga release was one that had me reaching for the...
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