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Books: Puppets, Gods and Brands
By Jonathan Clements. The latest book in the Asia Pop! Series, Teri Silvio’s Puppets, Gods and Brands, is a surprising, vivacious and convincing anthropology of animation, which places animation ideals and fannish philosophies at the very centre of modern times. For Silvio, the idea of imparting life into inanimate objects – of animating them – […]
Code Geass Films 2 & 3 come to Blu-ray!
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion is a perennial favourite of many people – ourselves included! – and we know a lot of you have been waiting patiently for news of our releases of the second and third films in the trilogy celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the classic series! Well today we’re (finally) excited to […]
The Museum of Poo
By Andrew Osmond. Tokyo already has a Poo Building, unofficially at least. It’s the long-standing nickname for the Asahi Beer Hall at Asakasa, where the big yellow lump on top is meant to represent a frothy head of beer, but people just won’t see it that way. But now there’s a rival to the title, […]
Crunchyroll brings UK premieres of unaired series to MCM London Comic Con
If you’re anything like us, you’ll grab any opportunity to catch some new anime for the first time, and love nothing more than a new season rolling around so that you can immerse yourself in a fountain of new titles. So, what if we were to tell you that attendees to MCM London Comic Con next […]
Gundam 00
By Andrew Osmond. The first thing to stress about Gundam 00 is that newbies can most definitely start here. While it’s technically part of the venerable Gundam franchise, it’s also a “new” series, with a new world and characters. Indeed, 00 was perhaps made deliberately to draw in viewers, Japanese and foreign, who hadn’t seen […]