another anime movie review

It’s an exciting time to be a fan of the isekai powerhouse series Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, with Season 3 about to start in October. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves… what you need in your life right now is Season 2 of the series on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, right? We announced […] http://dlvr.it/TDRqqJ

By Zoe Crombie. Nasa: a space loving teenager who has turned an embarrassing name into a life goal, and who has just walked in front of a moving truck. The reason for his foolish actions and his ultimate saviour: a mysterious girl who proposes marriage when Nasa suddenly declares his feelings. The result: an adorable, […] http://dlvr.it/TBhnT0

GET READY FOR A SUPERNATURAL ANIME PHENOMENON WITH A BIG SCREEN CELEBRATION OF  DAN DA DAN: First Encounter GET A SNEAK PEEK OF SCIENCE SARU’S HOTLY ANTICIPATED NEW SERIES IN CINEMAS THIS SEPTEMBER London, UK, 7th August 2024 – Do you believe in ghosts, or aliens? You had better believe that one of this year’s […] http://dlvr.it/TBcLvy

Earlier this month, we lifted the lid on our full release plans for bringing Naruto to Blu-ray, and it’s been fantastic seeing so much excitement and enthusiasm for our Collector’s Edition release of this classic show from all of you – be sure to get your pre-order in if you haven’t already! Of course, that […] http://dlvr.it/TBLwQV

GKIDS Partners with Anime Ltd. & Plaion Pictures, Plain Archive, Shout! Factory, and Sugoi Co for International Home Entertainment Release of ARCANE Sign-up for e-mail updates on ARCANE * indicates required Email Address * First Season of the Emmy® Award-Winning Series from Riot Games to be Released for Home Entertainment Platforms Worldwide in 2024 NEW […] http://dlvr.it/T9MwWX

Ever since we announced our acquisition of NARUTO – and our plans to bring it to the UK on Blu-ray for the very first time – we’ve had many of you asking for more details of what to expect and when. Well, today is the day where we get to unleash all of our plans […] http://dlvr.it/T91Cff

Anime Limited presents the home video release of the classic Macross title in an unmissable Blu-ray Ultimate Edition – pre-orders open June 6th! GLASGOW, MAY 25TH 2024 –  Anime Limited, under license from BIGWEST, are thrilled to reveal their plans for the release of the Macross Plus Ultimate Edition, bringing this classic show to Blu […] http://dlvr.it/T7SVcY

Although only the most recent three weeks of posts are visible on this blog’s front page, you can navigate through the previous nine years of articles using the tags. Click on these links to find our world-class obituaries and book reviews, or coverage of Japan and China. You can read the Hugo award-winning Jeannette Ng […] http://dlvr.it/T6CRHW

By Andrew Osmond. Rental Magica begins like a gentler, less assertive, but actually more professional Ghostbusters. The setting is modern Japan, where many different groups of magic users exist to deal with paranormal imbalances, or as the characters put it, spell wave contamination. In one episode, it’s mentioned such contaminations have caused everything from the […] http://dlvr.it/T66Tcz

By Zoe Crombie. Kimari is a high school student teetering on the edge of experience, wanting to live while she’s young but needing the right push to do so. That extra encouragement comes in the form of Shirase, a fellow student whose belief that her mother, a missing Antarctic explorer, is still waiting her in […] http://dlvr.it/T5zW35

By Andrew Osmond. Many readers of this blog will know what a dating sim is. It’s a computer game where your character develops a romantic relationship with someone else, often one of multiple “possible” characters. Actually, the definition’s more contentious than that. That above description could apply to many Visual Novels where relationships are important […] http://dlvr.it/T5rS46

By Andrew Osmond. The God of High School is an unusual, perhaps even unique anime, set in Korea, with Korean heroes, a Korean director, and based on a Korean comic. At the same time, it’s unquestionably anime, produced by Tokyo’s famed MAPPA studio. It did much to establish MAPPA’s reputation for frenzied action anime, and […] http://dlvr.it/T5jF1F

By Andrew Osmond. Rent-a-Girlfriend is a risqué romcom about a young man going online and… It’s as the title says. College student Kazuya is smarting after he’s dumped. That’s when he finds a website offering rental girlfriends. (“For just 5,000 yen per hour,” says the site, which was about £35 when the series was broadcast […] http://dlvr.it/T5YVvc

By Andrew Osmond. The feature film Venus Wars has a special nostalgic cachet in Britain and America, at least among fans who are old enough to remember when Akira was a “new” thing. Following the release of Otomo’s film, Venus Wars was among the first batch of SF-action anime to be marketed as anime in […] http://dlvr.it/T5RM56

By Andrew Osmond. One way you could pitch the anime series We Rent Tsukumogami would be to describe it as Miss Hokusai meets Bagpuss. Bagpuss, if you’re too young to remember it, was a vintage British animation about a shop that collects lost objects, dolls, carvings and the like, which come alive and talk among […] http://dlvr.it/T5Jy1W

By Andrew Osmond. A spy, an assassin and a telepathic tot walk into a story. That’s the set-up for Spy x Family, but it’s pretty much the show’s punchline, too, repeated over and again. And we still love it. In particular, the anime’s opening and closing titles are YouTube-friendly masterworks, visions of domestic family bliss […] http://dlvr.it/T59ZfR

By Andrew Osmond. My Next Life as a Villainess is one of those handy anime titles that effectively tells you the story. It opens with a hugely spoiled aristocratic little girl called Catarina being introduced to a potential future husband, a prince no less. They’re strolling around the gardens outside the family mansion when Catarina […] http://dlvr.it/T52v2k

By Zoe Crombie. Anime has taken inspiration from Western cultures throughout much of its history, from Astro Boy’s Disney-inspired aesthetics to the gorgeous European locales of films like Howl’s Moving Castle, and one of the most important productions in this vein is the World Masterpiece Theater series of adaptations of Western children’s books. Bringing new […] http://dlvr.it/T4trz7

By Tom Wilmot. Unlikely as it might be, the late Yasuharu Hasebe is one of Japan’s best-represented filmmakers overseas, with several of the director’s works making their way west over the past twenty or so years. Radiance Films continues the trend of bringing Hasebe’s trademark action movies to Blu-ray with the release of his electrifying […] http://dlvr.it/T4mxFy

By Jonathan Clements. Lina is rushed to the infirmary at the edge of life, her body terribly battered and sliced by an encounter with a lethal dragon, surrounded by wizards chanting healing spells and administering stasis commands. It is only as she slowly recovers, her memories of the battle mercifully lost, that her carers start […] http://dlvr.it/T4cycl