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June 5, 2020 · 1 comment
Magic Knight Rayearth comes to Blu-ray starting in July
If you’re someone who is more of the ‘old school’ anime crowd here in the UK, it’s quite likely you will be familiar with (or at least have heard of) the name Magic Knight Rayearth. Or perhaps just referred to as Rayearth. A lot of people were very excited when we revealed we’d be bringing […]
June 5, 2020 · 1 comment
Cloud Matsuri May 2020 – post-event analysis
This past weekend we were delighted to bring you Cloud Matsuri, our first completely online virtual convention where we teamed up with a number of partners and contributors to bring you a truly unique experience from the comfort of your own home. But with the weekend now a few days removed, we wanted to give […]
June 3, 2020 · 0 comments
Shinkai the Ad Man
By Andrew Osmond. Makoto Shinkai’s visual style is a commercial in its own right, maybe the most lucrative brand in anime today. So it’s fitting that Shinkai’s work has been bound up with advertising for more than a decade. Think of the lightning editing in Shinkai’s films, allowing for super-compressed story points, absolutely ideal for […]
May 31, 2020 · 0 comments
Seven Samurai
by Jeremy Clarke. Akira Kurosawa’s three-and-a-half-hour epic Seven Samurai (1954) remains to this day a landmark movie in Japanese and world cinema. It is currently streaming on BFI Player as part of the five month long Japan 2020 programme alongside 21 other Kurosawa films together with a much wider selection of Japanese movies including some […]
May 29, 2020 · 0 comments
MEGALOBOX Comes to Blu-ray!
After recent podcasts of ours talking about the series and even the impact of its source material in Japan, chances are you might have been wondering when you could expect to hear about our upcoming release of the futuristic boxing series, Megalobox? Well today is the day we can tell you! We’ve excited to tell you […]