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mangamarketRedline! Review – too cool for a pun
Title: Redline Rating: 15 Extras: Trailer, Perfect Guide to Redline, Quick Guide to Redline, English dub and Japanese with English Subtitles Due to a house move, I had managed to miss almost all the promotional material for Redline, as I was literally living out of a box (or rather, lots of boxes). I had managed … Continue reading
Dance in the Vampire Bund – It’s no Nabokov, that’s for sure…
Title: Dance in the Vampire Bund Rating: 15 When I first started watching ‘Dance in the Vampire Bund’, I was at first utterly delighted. The first episode was such a totally different approach to the introduction of vampires in a series that it thrilled me to my little heart. It opens with a B-movie style … Continue reading
Manga UK Announce New License: Angel Beats.
Last week, MangaUK announced that they have licensed critically acclaimed series Angel Beats for a UK release. The anime, which aired in Japan in the spring of 2010, will be released on both DVD and Blu-ray – despite MangaUK’s previous misfortune with blu-ray releases. The announcement falls in line with the company’s new blu-ray strategy…(Read More.)
One Hell of a Butler – Black Butler Part 1 Review
Black Butler comes to the UK with a large weight of expectation on its shoulders. The manga has proved itself a cult success to the UK market, and the anime’s creators A-1 Pictures have seen success in other titles: Birdy the Mighty (aka Tetsuwan Birdy), Sound of the Skies (aka Sora No Woto), and the hugely popular Fairy Tale, Blue Exorcist and Fractale. With a pedigree like that, it would perhaps be expected for Black Butler to further that success, however sadly it appears the series falls into some of the same traps as Birdy the Mighty: Decode…Read More.
Ouran High School Host Club to get Live Action Film
It was announced today that the cast of the Ouran High School Host Club live action TV series will be reprising their roles in a film of the series. The TV show began airing on TBS in Japan at the end of July 2011, and stars Yusuke Yamamoto as Tamaki Suou and Haruna Kawaguchi as … Continue reading
Beez Stock Burns in Sony Warehouse.
This morning Beez Entertainment, the european branch of Namco Bandai confirmed via Twitter that it has lost its UK stock that was housed in Sony’s London Warehouse that was burnt to the ground during rioting in Enfield, North London. The warehouse was a distribution centre for a number of other UK businesses, and an independent record label.
Beez tweeted:
“We’d like to apologize to fans just now – there will be a slowdown in stock dispatch due to our warehouse burning down in the riots. The important thing is that at least from reports no workers were hurt. We’re working as quickly as possible to find solutions but it will take a little bit of time to fix, thanks for your patience on this.” …(Read More…)
Sekirei Series 1 Review: or “you could put an eye out with that!”
When Sekirei turned up in the pile of review disks, I took one look at the press release for it and called dibs.
Not the Ghibli We Know – Arriety Review.
A year on from its Japanese release, and we are finally being gifted a chance to view Arriety (or Kari-gurashi no Arietti, if you like) on the big screen. 12 months is a long time, and my initial excitement ebbed and wayned torturously until the fateful day in which I could see the much anticipated “new Ghibli film”, that was guaranteed to draw anime fans of all varieties and see them herald it as a fantastic movie, like all their formers. I took my seat in the half-filled independent cinemas screen and braced myself, with now middling expectations, to be overawed or disappointed… (Read More…)
Gong Anime Network Announce Free UK Anime Streaming
Anime network Gong have announced that they will be making their channel available on Blinkbox, a UK based digital film service, owned by british supermarket, Tesco. The service allows users to download and stream shows from the website on their PC, MAC, internet connected TVs and PS3s. Gong, who already have an online service available to users in the US and mainland Europe are allowing a selection of their shows to be streamed on Blinkbox, including: “Babel II – Beyond Infinity”, “Demon Lord Dante”, and “Izumo: Dazzling Battles of Raging Swords!”…(Read More)
A Little Birdy Told You… – Birdy the Mighty: Decode, Season 1 review.
I’ve been waiting a long time for another decent sci-fi anime to come around, and so far all I had to show for it was a copy of the first half of Planetes – an anime about rubbish collection in space, which soon found itself in a bin to experience the marvel of rubbish collection itself. As such, Birdy the Mighty: Decode had become one of the releases that I was eagerly anticipating.…(Read More.)
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