Items Matching Tag 'Retrospective'

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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Anime Review Roundup
Another Week, Another Convention In this case more than one convention, as it was a big week for fan gatherings in the United States at Sakuracon and Anime Boston, and it was also a big week for announcements from the various companies in the US....
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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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Crunchyroll Now Caters Directly For the UK
If you are an anime fan with an Internet connection, then the chances are that you know about Crunchyroll. Over the past few years, they have become the net’s largest legal online streaming business catering for fans of anime and Asian television...
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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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Anime ------ Roundup
My Latest Crunchyroll Discoveries No reviews for you this week, so instead I’ll share with you a couple of shows that I have started watching on Crunchyroll. Links are to the right as always. Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky Kio and...
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Anime Review Roundup
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
A Couple Of Crunchyroll Charms With a lull in anime review discs over the holidays, I’ve been catching up a little with my online streaming. Of course being this far behind means that I have the benefit of marathoning series, rather than waiting...
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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 Update
Anime on Demand... On Subscription I mentioned yesterday that Anime on Demand had been down for the weekend while it shifted to new servers and updated its front end interface. Last night it came back online, and with it a development that was...
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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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Anime Review Roundup
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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