Sword Art On… Netflix
By Hugh David.
In a possible near future, humanity has achieved the ability to upload human consciousness into VR environments. Within those environments, however, all sorts of scenarios, good and bad, can play out, sometimes at risk to the body left in the real world.
On hearing this description, where a certain generation of anime fan’s mind might understandably leap to the cyberpunk world of Ghost in the Shell, a younger one would instead think of ongoing hit franchise Sword Art Online, arguably one of the most internationally prominent Japanese franchise currently alongside Attack on Titan and Tokyo Ghoul. However, the deadly VR MMORPG of that show is only the latest in a long line of such stories found in written and visual SF, and if you asked a more mainstream, casual viewer of today’s streaming television you might well be met with the name Altered Carbon. Continue Reading
Interview: Mateusz Urbanowicz
By Andrew Osmond.
If you’ve wondered about the artists who created the incredible backgrounds for Makoto Shinkai's Your Name, then meet Mateusz Urbanowicz. The Polish-born artist painted more than 120 backgrounds for Shinkai’s blockbuster (examples). He also contributed almost a hundred others to The Case of Hana and Alice (examples) and worked on an episode of Space Dandy to boot.
But that’s just a small part of Urbanowicz’s thriving artistic career. As a computer graphics student in Poland, he used a Japanese government scholarship to enrol at Kobe Design University, where his animation project was a film called Right Places. His initial trailer caught the attention of Shinkai when he visited the university, and the director gave Urabanowicz tips for completing the film – you can see the final work here.
Many of Urbanowicz’s personal works are illustrations, including his series “Bicycle Boy”, which was inspired by Ghibli. He’s also created other illustration series such as Tokyo Storefront and Cold in Yokohama. His English-language website is here while he also has a Youtube channel. Continue Reading
NEW RELEASES: 18th June 2018
It's the start of a new week and that means there's a new release to add to your anime collection! But as well as that, there have also been some other releases you should be aware of over the past few weeks. This post will catch you up on those as well!
Read on below for details
Here's quick Summary of new releases highlighted in this post:
- Love Live! Sunshine!! Season One
- Persona3: Movie #4 Winter of Rebirth
- Lupin the 3rd: Part IV
- Grimgar: Ashes & Illusions (standard ed. Blu-ray)
NEW RELEASES: 18TH JUNE 2018
LOVE LIVE! SUNSHINE!! SEASON 1
FORMAT: Ltd. Collector's Ed. Blu-ray (pictured left), Standard DVD
BBFC CERT.: PG
SRP: Ltd Ed. Blu-ray - £59.99 | Standard DVD - £29.99
Language: English, Japanese with English subtitles
Synopsis: "Uranohoshi Girls' High School, a private school in the seaside neighbourhood of Uchiura at Numazu city, Shizuoka prefecture. A small high school in a corner of Suruga Bay, it is home to nine teens, led by second-year student Chika Takami, driven by one seriously big dream: to become the net generation of bright, sparkling "school idols"! As long as we don't give up, any dream can come true... All we have to do now is keep pushing hard for glory!
Now their "School Idol Project" begins to make their dreams come true!"
Contains episodes 1 to 13 on Blu-Ray, with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles.
On-Disc extras (exclusive to Blu-ray version only): Promo Video, Commercials, Textless Opening Song "Aozora Jumping Heart".
You can watch a dubbed and subtitle trailer for the series below
WHERE CAN I ORDER THIS
You can pre-order your copy from the following retailers now:
Order at Amazon
Order at Zavvi
Order at Base
Order at HMV Online
Order at Anime-on-Line
Order at All The Anime
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-- See a full unboxing of this release HERE
-- Want to know more about the series? Have a read of the piece by Paul Browne at our blog HERE
PERSONA3: MOVIE #4 WINTER OF REBIRTH
FORMAT: Standard Ed. Blu-ray
(standard DVD and Ltd Collector's Ed. Blu-ray+DVD ver. released.)
BBFC CERT.: 15
SRP: Standard Ed. Blu-ray - £19.99
Language: Japanese with English subtitles only
Synopsis: “The hour of extinction is approaching. There is no way to stop it.”
They have learned of death, seen death and confronted death. Makoto and his team had grown through numerous encounters and separations.
Maybe they’ve been fighting for themselves, not for the world. Even so, they continued to battle, believing there will be a peaceful future.
However, the boy says that extinction is the fate of humanity. The boy Makoto believed was his friend thrusts this cruel reality before him.
The season is now winter. In order to welcome the spring, what decision must Makoto make…?"
Check out a trailer for the film below (originally published prior to our release of the Ltd Collector's Ed. Blu-ray+DVD ver.):
where can i order this?
Order at Amazon
Order at Zavvi
Order at Base.com
Order at HMV Online
Order at Anime-on-Line
Order at All The Anime
And now a roundup of releases of ours over the past few weeks:
LUPIN THE 3RD: PART IV
FORMAT: Ltd. Collector's Ed. Blu-ray
BBFC CERT.: 15
SRP: Ltd Ed. Blu-ray - £59.99
Language: Japanese with English subtitles only
Synopsis: "A beloved classic franchise, LUPIN III (2015) is the first full-fledged Lupin the 3rd series since 1984.
The new story takes place in Italy and San Marino, and features a blue-jacketed Lupin in his 20s. Lupin the 3rd follows the escapades and adventures of master thief Arsene Lupin III, a brilliant thief who has been able to carry off heists no one ever thought possible. Although he has been arrested on multiple occasions, he has always managed to escape."
Contains all 26 episodes of Lupin the 3rd: Part IV (The Italian Adventure) in Japanese audio with English subtitles.
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NOTE: This is a subtitle only release. There is no English dub included with this release. Please SEE THIS for more details.
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WHERE CAN I ORDER THIS?
You can pre-order this from retailers now including the following:
Order at Amazon
Order at Zavvi
Order at Base.com
Order at HMV Online
Order at Anime-On-Line
Order at All The Anime
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-- See a full unboxing of this release HERE
-- Want to know more about the series? Have a read of the piece at our blog by Andrew Osmond at our blog HERE
GRIMGAR: ashes & illusions
FORMAT: Standard Ed. Blu-ray
(standard DVD and Ltd Collector's Ed. Blu-ray ver. previously released.)
BBFC CERT.: 15
SRP: Standard Ed. Blu-ray - £34.99
Language: Japanese with English subtitles only
Synopsis: "All 12 episodes of the anime based on the light novel by Ao Jumonji. A band of strangers are united by their sudden transportation to a fantasy realm and the loss of all their prior memories, forcing them to adapt to their new home and carve our a life for themselves in a strange new world."
Contains episodes 1 to 12 with the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Presented in collectors packaging.
Check out a trailer for the series below (originally published prior to our release of Ltd Collector's Ed. Blu-ray ver.):
WHERE CAN I ORDER THIS?
Order at Amazon
Order at Zavvi
Order at Base
Order at HMV Online
Order at Anime-on-Line
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
-- Want to know more about the series? Have a read of this piece at our blog HERE
And that's what's available to add to your collection now! That being said, there's two other things we want to take a moment to tell you about -
1 WEEK TO GO UNTIL MAQUIA IS IN CINEMAS!
It's nearly here! We're just over a week away from Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms is in cinemas across the UK for one night only on 27th June! If you haven't already, make sure you book your tickets now
Special Offer on Night is Short, Walk on Girl
In case you missed it over the weekend, until this Thursday (21st June 2018) we're having a special offer at our online shop for an AllTheAnime.com Exclusive bundle for Night is Short, Walk on Girl, the film directed by Masaaki Yuasa (Lu Over the Wall, The Tatami Galaxy)
The bundle includes our Ltd Collector's Ed. Blu-ray+DVD set plus a bonus A3 poster! You can order this now from our AllTheAnime.com web shop in the link below!
And that concludes this post! As you can see, lots to be excited about as an anime fan!
Signing out~!
Jeremy
Animerama
[WARNING: Content potentially Not Safe For Work]
By Jasper Sharp.
The three titles in Mushi Pro’s short-lived “Animerama” series, A Thousand & One Nights (1969), Cleopatra (1970) and Belladonna of Sadness (1973), arrived at an interesting juncture in the history of Japanese animation and Osamu Tezuka’s Mushi Production. Continue Reading
Podcast #50 – 15th June 2018
All The Anime Podcast #48 - Season 3, episode #06:
"Exposition Issues"
[Recorded on 14th & 15th june 2018]
With various members of the team being out and about the place, Jeremy brings you literally a show of two halves very much themed around the happenings of E3. First he is joined by Lauren and Keith to talk a variety of topics including Lauren's passionate feelings surrounding Kingdom Hearts III and Keith's passionate feelings about the wealth lack of news relating to the Final Fantasy VII remake.
Then we moved forward 24 hours (from when that first segment was recorded) with Andrew and Kat then joining Jeremy to talk some of their feelings on happenings from E3. As you can probably guess, there's more talk on Kingdom Hearts III as Kat gives her feelings about all news surrounding the long awaited game. Then we touch on some other things that were of interest from Andrew's perspective including Death Stranding.
As if that wasn't enough, there's even time to briefly talk about Andrew attending the A Perfect Circle concert in London that leads to some strange music based tangents.
A fun show as always! We'll be back next week with another podcast, who knows in what format, but either way we'll be back! Enjoy the the show~!
NOTE: As always please note this podcast may contain strong language and any views expressed by individuals in this podcast do not reflect those of Anime Limited.
(To download the podcast as an mp3, click on the arrow pointing down in the top right corner of the player above.)
There is also a Soundcloud app available on both iTunes and Google Play, so you download and listen to our podcast through there as well.
Past Podcasts episodes:
Season 3
Podcast #43 | Podcast #44 | Podcast #45 | Podcast #46 | Podcast #47 | Podcast #48 | Podcast #49
Season 2
Podcast #23 | Podcast #24 | Podcast #25 | Podcast #26 | Podcast #27 | Podcast #28 | Podcast #29 | Podcast #30 | Podcast #31 | Podcast #32 | Podcast #33 | Podcast #34 | Podcast #35 | Podcast #36 | Podcast #37 | Podcast #38 | Podcast #39 | Podcast #40 | Podcast #41 | Podcast #42 (finale)
Season 1
Episode #1 | Episode #2 | Episode #3 | Episode #4 | Podcast #5 | Podcast #6 | Podcast #7 | Podcast #8 | Podcast #9 |Episode #10 | Episode #11 | Podcast #12 | Episode #13 | Podcast #14 | Podcast #15 | Podcast #16 | Podcast #17 | Podcast #18 | Podcast #19 | Podcast #20 | Podcast #21 | Podcast #22
Signing out~!
Jeremy