All Posts: Page 116
March 18, 2020 · 0 comments
Anonymous Noise
By Andrew Osmond. Anonymous Noise is a love-triangle teen melodrama, and a music drama, and it’s very much in the tradition of girls’ (shojo) manga. That’s hardly surprising; the source strip, created by Ryoko Fukuyama, was serialised in the venerable girls’ manga magazine Hana to Yume, which was also home to the popular Fruits Basket. […]
March 15, 2020 · 2 comments
The Vision of Escaflowne
By Andrew Osmond. Thirteen years ago, when I was writing about Vision of Escaflowne for a non-specialist magazine, I claimed, “The best way to describe Escaflowne is as the closest thing to a ten-hour Hayao Miyazaki film.” As crude as that description is – and Escaflowne is no mere Miyazaki imitator – it still holds […]
March 13, 2020 · 0 comments
AJIN: Demi-Human Season 2 arrives in April!
It’s the end of the week, and we’ve got a new product to tell you about! We’re happy to announce that (finally) season 2 of the popular series AJIN: Demi Human will be coming to Collector’s Edition Blu-ray and standard DVD on 27th April! We’ve got lots of info to share with you about this, plus a […]
March 12, 2020 · 2 comments
KONOSUBA Season 1 Coming To Blu-ray!
We’ve got some explosive news to celebrate! We’re delighted to announce that we will be bringing the very popular series KONOSUBA – God’s blessing on this wonderful world! to Blu-ray starting later this year! Konosuba is part of a range of titles we release in the UK & Ireland in collaboration with our friends at Crunchyroll! Previous titles in this range of […]
March 12, 2020 · 0 comments
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
By Andrew Osmond. This is not the place to start for any newcomers to Gundam Wing. Endless Waltz is the last chapter of the Gundam Wing story, following on directly from the final TV episode (part 49). The TV series is already available from Anime Limited, and we wrote it up here. The TV Gundam […]
March 9, 2020 · 1 comment
Char’s Counter Attack
By Andrew Osmond. That the first “original” cinema film in the Gundam franchise contains the word “counterattack” suggests two things. First, that someone at the Sunrise studio was thinking of a certain other 1980s film with spaceships and epic duels; and second, that it’s warning the audience that the film is a sequel. Which Char’s […]