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December 6, 2017 · 0 comments

Right at the beginning of the year we started releasing the Persona 3 Movies on DVD and as part of a Ltd Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD set. Throughout this year (2017, depending on if you’re reading this in the future or not) they have been very popular releases! So much so that the Ltd Collector’s Edition […]

December 4, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Recently, I wrote a mildly provocative piece suggesting that Ghibli’s acclaimed, proudly old-fashioned filmmaking might be commercially outmoded by slicker crowd-pleasers like Your Name. In the piece, I touched on Ghibli’s roots in 1970s anime, and mentioned an institution called World Masterpiece Theatre (WMT for short). A new home release, Ronja the […]

December 4, 2017 · 0 comments

I don’t mean to alarm you, but it’s December! With time counting down to Christmas, we have of course started our traditional series of 12 Days of Christmas Deals, which we’d urge you to look out for from 9AM every morning for some incredible deals and exclusive offers. Of course, there’s more to this week than just […]

December 2, 2017 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. Following the release of the acclaimed A Silent Voice this year, new anime fans may be looking at the backlist of the studio which made it, Kyoto Animation. They may be surprised to find it had a very different reputation before Voice. Its early TV serials often played with “slice of life” […]

November 29, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. The Paramount live-action remake of Ghost in the Shell (1995) arrived with much fanfare and more than a little controversy earlier this year. Andrew Osmond’s pocket-guide companion to the anime original was initially intended to arrive in time to capitalise on its success, although for various reasons, the publication was held up […]