another anime movie review

By Shelley Pallis. Country boy Dai Miyamoto (voiced by Yuki Tamada) moves to the big city of Tokyo in the hope of making it big as a jazz saxophonist. The end. But this is jazz – it’s not where you’re going, it’s how you get there… Blue Giant, in its anime form, is merely a […] http://dlvr.it/SyD7Y9

By Shelley Pallis. Kokoro (Ami Touma) has a name that means “heart”, but feels that hers is constantly being stamped on. Mean girls at school make her life so difficult, that eventually she gives up altogether, and stays home with an alleged stomach-ache. Lying on her bed and feeling sorry for herself, she discovers that […] http://dlvr.it/Sy5C2Q

Anime Ltd. to announce details for these groundbreaking UK acquisitions early 2024 LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, 28 OCTOBER 2023 –  Anime Ltd. took to the stage at MCM Comic Con in London this weekend to share the news that Studio Pierrot’s classic NARUTO and NARUTO SHIPPUDEN will join Anime Ltd. beloved line-up of bespoke Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray […] http://dlvr.it/Sy4cCD

A FILM ICON BECOMES FEAR ITSELF IN GODZILLA MINUS ONE  ROARING INTO CINEMAS, IMAX AND 4DX SOON! Cinema’s most iconic monster returns to its post-war roots with Toho’s latest kaiju blockbuster – in cinemas, IMAX and 4DX nationwide from 15th December 2023 London, UK, 24 October 2023 – Almost seventy-years after the King of Monsters first […] http://dlvr.it/Sxzkn0

By Andrew Osmond. Vampire in the Garden is a girl-meets-girl story, set in a wintry wonderland. One girl is human, the other a vampire, but they share a longing to escape their world of war and death. It’s very plainly a girls’ love story, though some viewers may complain that it can’t fully speak its […] http://dlvr.it/SxyN1s

By Andrew Osmond. Mars: 2071. Spike Spiegel is a “cowboy” bounty hunter, loosely allied with cyborg ex-cop Jet, gambler Faye and female hacker Edward. Faye is tracking a criminal hacker called Lee when a tanker explodes on a highway, spreading an unknown virus that attacks the brain. With a record bounty on the perpetrators’ heads, […] http://dlvr.it/Sxs71Q

The end of October can mean only one thing – our marketing manager’s birthday MCM London Comic Con! Once again, we’ll be present at the show, and to make sure you’re ready to make the most of what we’re bringing to the event we wanted to give you this quick run-down of what to expect. […] http://dlvr.it/SxrLz9

By Andrew Osmond. Warner Brothers’ acquaintance with anime has twin foundations: a yellow rodent and a red pill. Warner Brothers’ handling of Pokémon and The Animatrix reflect the opposite ways that Western distributors sold anime abroad in the early twenty-first century: either conceal its Japanese origins, or else make them a selling point. Pokémon was […] http://dlvr.it/SxpSDs

By Zoe Crombie. Since its initial release in 2013, Jonathan Clements’ Anime: A History has served as a unique resource for anyone looking to contextualise their love of anime. The just-published new edition elucidates this complex history further with newly added sections on timely conversations around the medium. Refreshingly, Clements’ book doesn’t adhere to the […] http://dlvr.it/SxhLxT

By James L. Perkins. After working as an illustrator and character designer on light novels, manga and anime features such as the gut-punching and emotional I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, and the heartfelt romantic tale of Josee, The Tiger and The Fish; new director loundraw (no caps… just because) truly exploded onto the scene […] http://dlvr.it/Sxdmr9

Alongside our regular cinema releases to keep your local cinemas packed with anime over the course of the year, many of you will know that whenever the opportunity arises we love to bring you exciting special event screenings, giving you a chance to experience anime in a way you simply wouldn’t be able to anywhere […] http://dlvr.it/SxZPbs

By Shelley Pallis. After a millennium of warfare, the rival kingdoms of Alhamit and Balkari have finally fought each other to a standstill. In a frankly ill-conceived plan to create dynastic harmony, Alhamit agrees to send its most beautiful princess to marry a prince of Balkari. Balkari agrees in return to send its cleverest prince […] http://dlvr.it/SxXcXJ

By Andrew Osmond. War wracks you with terrible transformations, and turns you into a monster. To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts takes place in an alternate America, renamed Patria, and begins in the fire of its civil war. In this world, the Southerners are winning, their firepower reducing the enemy to bloody meat (it’s plain from […] http://dlvr.it/SxV3RZ

By Jonathan Clements. Thirty-something Rui Komada (voiced by Saori Hayami) is torn between pursuing her personal dreams and turning around her ailing family business, a whisky distillery that has been struggling to cope with declining drinking habits and supply-chain issues in the aftermath of a natural disaster. After her father’s death, she inherits a company […] http://dlvr.it/SxQJys

By Andrew Osmond. Released twenty-eight years ago, Macross Plus: The Movie still dazzles now, a film that somehow manages to combine plane dogfights and space duels (think Star Wars meets Top Gun); a melancholy drama about former friends tormented by their ruined past; and an AI pop-goddess who seems far less fantastical in the age […] http://dlvr.it/SxGhfH

By Jonathan Clements. Detective Shunsaku Ban and his nephew-assistant Kenichi arrive in Duke Red’s city of the future on the trail of an organ-trafficking doctor. But the city is coming apart, with Duke Red’s adopted son Rock leading a predatory police force, and the enslaved robot population scapegoated as the cause of all ills. Meanwhile, […] http://dlvr.it/Sx7zbM

By Andrew Osmond. Dolls, dogs, gods, children and their relationships with neurotically self-conscious humanity come under philosophical investigation in Mamoru Oshii’s sequel to his film, Ghost in the Shell. Rendered in a blend of drawn and computer animation, the sequel’s first half looks like a sleekly beautiful variant on the future-noir aesthetic of Blade Runner, […] http://dlvr.it/Sx13bF

The nights are drawing in, and we know what that means – it’s time to hunker down, prepare yourself for some dark nights huddled under a blanket catching up on your anime backlog. This is why we’re here to help, by adding to that backlog with an October full of exciting pre-orders! Before you get […] http://dlvr.it/Swv6Pb

By Jonathan Clements. On a distant, desiccated planet wistfully named Eden, colonists George (Yosuke Kubozuka) and Romi (Rie Miyazawa) play at being Adam and Eve. They have a long road ahead of them if they are to ever terraform the planet and make it truly habitable for human life. For now, they are obliged to […] http://dlvr.it/SwsRKy