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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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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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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
Manga Keep On Twittering It's annoying, but someone has to keep an eye on Twitter to make sense of all the announcements, rumours and whispers that abound. Thankfully that someone isn't me, as by the time I hear these things, someone else has been...
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Anime Review Roundup
Twits and Pieces There wasn't a lot of major news around last week, or at least none that I read, but as usual Twitter announcements abound, and there may be something of interest here… to someone… somewhere… If you were getting warmed up for the...
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MCM Expo News and Anime Review Roundup
The Expo News The Expo has hit, leaving a trail of news carnage for me to sift through. Everyone was there, although that doesn't mean as much as it used to, as it really just boils down to Beez, Manga, and MVM. ADV were there for one final time,...
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Anime Review Roundup
Blu-Metal Alchemist Last week it was Manga Entertainment who hogged the news spotlight, starting their streams of Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, after Funimation had geo-locked us out of their playpen. Well, Manga aren't all that keen to...
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D. Gray-Man Competition and Manga News!
First The Competition It’s been a while since we’ve had a competition, but we can belatedly kick off 2010 in some style, as we have three copies of Manga Entertainment’s latest shonen acquisition to give away. D. Gray-Man is the story of an orphan...
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Anime Review Roundup
Manga and Beez have been Twittering again I still think it’s a horrible way to release news. If I did it that way, this report would already be ove… But both Manga and Beez have been delivering news and non-news this week, and you can read more...
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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
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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