January 18, 2018 · 1 comment

By Andy Hanley. Assuming you’ve made it through to the end of Keiji Gotoh’s Assassination Classroom’s first series in one piece, you’d be forgiven for needing some time to regain your composure after the tumultuous events that closed it. Having seen the octopus-like alien Koro-sensei come close to defeat at the hands of his students, […]

January 15, 2018 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. “I think it’s time we blow this scene. Get everybody and the stuff together. Okay: 3-2-1, let’s jam.” Admit it, you’re already hearing those brass notes as the theme song kicks in. As Rose Bridges argues in her lively, smart and revealing book Yoko Kanno’s Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack, it’s the music that […]

January 12, 2018 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. Although it was hardly the first of its breed, the success of Sword Art Online in both its original light novel and later anime adaptation form has seen an explosion of stories based around a similar concept – being trapped in a video game world, usually based around the settings and mechanics […]

January 9, 2018 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Hikari Hori’s new book Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan 1926-1945, examines the first phase of the Showa Era, from the enthronement of Emperor Hirohito through to the end of World War Two. She offers an enthralling narrative of Japan’s first mass-media sovereign, but also the theories and critical […]

January 8, 2018 · 0 comments

Congratulations! We’ve all made it to 2018 and it’s already time to bring you our first new releases for this calendar year. Plus we want to make sure we bring you up to speed on our final release of last year as well! NEW RELEASES FOR WEEK COMMENCING: 8th January 2018 MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM ZZ: […]

January 6, 2018 · 0 comments

By Chris Perkins. The world of anime streaming is a fast-moving one. So much so that since the last time we published one of our UK anime streaming guides there have been some major shifts in the landscape. Daisuki (the site run by Japan’s anime consortium) shut down towards the end of 2017, and a […]