December 16, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. As its subtitle suggests, Wu Weihua’s book Chinese Animation: Creative Industries and Digital Culture delves into two specific elements of cartoons in China – the effects of disruptive transitions on a struggling business, and the massive transformations wrought by computers. Both these areas are under-represented in previous studies of the medium, and […]

December 13, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. If you saw the film title Sword of the Stranger without knowing anything else about it, you might guess it was a no-nonsense action flick, perhaps with a Man With No Name hero and a great many bladed weapons. And you’d be right. It’s also an anime by the Cowboy Bebop studio, […]

December 11, 2017 · 1 comment

Howdy folks! We hope you’ve all been enjoying our 12 Days of Christmas deals, and are suitably prepared for our twelfth and final deal tomorrow, the much-vaunted “Mystery Box”. Please don’t ask us what’s in it though because, y’know, it’s a mystery. Anyhow, there’s far more going on that just our Christmas offers this week, […]

December 10, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. If you follow Anime Limited’s releases, you’ll know short is beautiful in animation. Titles such as Garden of Words, HAL and Tokyo Marble Chocolate do more in 40 or 50 minutes than most anime series manage in hours. Shorts present genre stories without formula fat, leaving lean tales swinging unusual ways without […]

December 8, 2017 · 0 comments

We’ve been pretty quiet on what we have planned for this classic film, but today we’re delighted to bring an unboxing for our release of Sword of the Stranger which will be available as a Ltd Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD set from 18th December! Read on below for all the details. ABOUT SWORD OF THE STRANGER With […]

December 6, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. As a rite of passage in her own world, the teenage Chun spends a week on Earth in the form of a red dolphin. A human boy drowns while rescuing her from a net in a storm, leading the guilt-ridden Chun to swap half her lifespan with the Soul Keeper to bring […]