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July 21, 2016 · 0 comments

By Tom Smith These days the boundaries of being an indie band can be difficult to define. Acts like England’s own Enter Shikari, despite being signed to their own label, manage to achieve mainstream chart positions without the need for a major record company’s backing. Yet, if you look at them, their site, their merchandise, […]

July 18, 2016 · 1 comment

By Hugh David. There has never been a better time to be a media fan. Commentaries and spin-offs, blogs and podcasts can open up entire worlds of fandom, even to the hopeless couch potato. Long gone are the days when fan publications relied on obsessive collections of memorabilia, and the need to remember details a […]

July 15, 2016 · 0 comments

By Tom Smith. Anime music doesn’t get much more “anime” than STYLE FIVE, a super group formed especially for the ending themes to a series all about breaststrokes, front crawls and doggy paddles; Free! Eternal Summer. The series kicks off with a blaster of an opening song from OLDCODEX. That’s the band fronted by Free! […]

July 13, 2016 · 0 comments

Today we bring you the latest edition of our Newswire. It’s lighter edition than normal when it comes to news, so it’s very much an update on a few things and than touching on a lot of questions we’ve received about Funimation titles. Read on below for latest. ANIME LIMITED / ALL THE ANIME UPDATES […]

July 12, 2016 · 0 comments

Jonathan Clements reviews a book on Japan’s landmark censorship cases. It began with newsboys in the Tokyo streets with stacks of a racy foreign book, wearing jackets that proclaimed “WARNING! CHATTERLEY.” For the first big test of Japan’s new free-speech constitution was the publication of the unexpurgated Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1951, when the country […]