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[UNBOXING] Angelic Layer
With just hours left until our Early Bird deal on this title expires at the time of writing, hot off the presses our finished stock of the wonderful Angelic Layer on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray has arrived prior to its 24th September 2018 retail release! What better time to take a look at what our forthcoming release […]
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 […]
MCM Scotland Comic Con to host UK Premiere of Sword Art Online Season 3
A new season of anime is coming up fast once again, and this autumn promises some fantastic riches for fans to enjoy in simulcast form, not least the return of certain series some of you might be aware of called Sword Art Online. Yes, that’s right, October sees the return of Sword Art Online to our screens […]
Books: Debating Otaku
By Jonathan Clements. Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan: Historical Perspectives and New Horizons will prove to be a vital core text in understanding the history of anime and manga fandom. This is not merely for its incisive analysis of the transformations of the word otaku over the last thirty years, but also for its detailed […]
Junjo Romantica
By Andrew Osmond. According to the Anime Encyclopedia, Junjo Romantica has been distributed to China, Korea, Russia and the Arab world. Now, the debut of the TV version in Britain marks perhaps the first UK commercial release of an anime that’s openly and explicitly a sexual love story between men – what’s often called a […]