August 20, 2021 · 0 comments

Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba, who died yesterday from COVID-derived pneumonia, was one of Japan’s foremost action stars, with an influence extending way beyond his native country. Aug 20, 2021Jonathan Clements

August 18, 2021 · 0 comments

Masami Suda, who died of cancer on 1st August, had a career that spanned everything from the sci-fi of Space Knight Tekkaman to the basketball action of Slam Dunk. “I didn’t go into animation because I loved it, but because I really wanted to draw, I aspired to become a graphic designer,” he once admitted […]

August 16, 2021 · 5 comments

It’s been a busy August for us thus far, with many of you enjoying the fruits of our Summer Sale, and another little announcement dropping yesterday at the time of writing this. However, we know that you folks also want to take a look at other titles coming up, and so here we are (albeit […]

August 15, 2021 · 2 comments

Fred Ladd, who died on 3rd August at the age of 94, met anime in 1963, when he was phoned by a New York company asking if there was potential in a foreign TV cartoon. The company was NBC Enterprises, a small outfit that rather hoped people would confuse it with the better known NBC […]

August 13, 2021 · 0 comments

By Chris Perkins. Anime Limited’s year-long rolling “film festival” Screen Anime might have come to an end as we (hopefully) come out of the pandemic doldrums, but there are still plenty of other online services offering legal anime fixes. We usually give a rundown at the beginning of each year, but change comes so fast […]

August 10, 2021 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Ten years ago, the world of Big Order was struck by a massive paranormal catastrophe. But for schoolboy Eiji Hoshimiya, that was only the start of the nightmare. Now, he lives with a terrible secret knowledge – that he was the child who wished for an apocalypse, and somehow had that wish […]