Anime Review Roundup
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood streaming at Manga.co.uk Because of circumstances completely within my control, I didn't bring you the anime round up last week. So lucky you, you get a bumper edition this week, with twice the goodies. Beginning...
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Anime Review Roundup
D.Gray-Man Competition Results Last week the D.Gray-Man competition closed, and the Reviewer hat-picker-outer went into overtime searching for deserving winners. Two doves, one startled rabbit, and a mouldy toupee later, I can proudly announce...
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Anime Review Roundup
Just two reviews for you this week, and one of them is a live-action film at that. Since it was adapted from an anime and manga, it ought to count anyway. Besides, with all the CGI and green screen work, it’s half animation in itself. I’m talking of...
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Anime Review Roundup
Since you got a dose of news on Saturday, I think I’ll dive straight into the anime reviews this week, and fortunately there’s more than just a single review to point you to. First up was Fate/Stay Night: Volume 2, in which the fantasy battle genre...
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D. Gray-Man Competition and Manga News!
First The Competition It’s been a while since we’ve had a competition, but we can belatedly kick off 2010 in some style, as we have three copies of Manga Entertainment’s latest shonen acquisition to give away. D. Gray-Man is the story of an orphan...
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Anime Review Roundup
Let’s round up last week’s reviews. Naruto. That’s it, you can go home now. It’s not my fault, honest! Late Naruto filler is enough to put anyone off anime for life. I’m just glad that it dimmed my enthusiasm for only a week. Actually, Naruto...
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Anime Review Roundup
Gundam Free For All The big Gundam event has begun in preparation for the simultaneous worldwide release of Gundam Unicorn on Blu-ray. From now until the end of April, several classic Gundam series will be available for streaming from various...
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Anime Review Roundup and BAM Update
Slayers Revolution Has Been Dubbed For those of you who have been watching the Slayers releases from MVM, you will no doubt be aware that MVM also have the rights to the latest series, Slayers Revolution, and Slayers Evolution-R. You will also be...
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Anime Review Roundup
Begun, the Summer Wars Have There weren’t any anime reviews to round up last week, hence no review roundup, but this week it’s back to normal service, with three reviews of anime new and old for you to peruse. But I guess I missed out on...
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Anime Review Roundup
I’m still digesting turkey, which means I can barely summon the energy to type, let alone come up with anything substantial for the first anime review roundup of the year. So just the reviews then, beginning with Solty Rei: Volume 6. It’s the...
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Anime Review Roundup
The final Anime Review Roundup of the year, and I’m too afflicted with turkey bloat to put any effort into this. Don’t blame me, blame Bernard Matthews. This week I’ll just do a quick recap of the reviews, although news wise I can tell you this....
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Bexley Anime and Manga Festival and Anime Review Roundup
Ghibli Adapt Another Story From The Mystical West It seems to happen a lot nowadays, with studio Ghibli opting to adapt stories from around here, to be made into anime from over there. I guess it helps with the globalisation of anime, and doesn’t...
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Anime Review Roundup
Manga and Beez have been Twittering again I still think it’s a horrible way to release news. If I did it that way, this report would already be ove… But both Manga and Beez have been delivering news and non-news this week, and you can read more...
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Anime Review Roundup
It’s getting close to that time of year when the Jingleduke atop his mouse-drawn carriage, dispenses poultry to all and sundry around the world. Or something. Now it’s either distributors concentrating on retailing their wares, or it’s me...
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Anime Review Roundup
Witchblade Competition Results Let’s keep it short and sweet this week shall we… First, the winners of the recent Witchblade competition. As more than 99% of entrants knew (and I really thought I had a headscratcher of a question this time),...
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Anime Review Roundup
More Beez Anime Legends It’s only been a week since the first announcement of Beez’ long awaited budget line, and already there’s more good news to celebrate. Andrew Partridge of Beez has confirmed on several forums that Beez aims to release two...
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Anime Review Roundup (Updated with Competition)
BAM BAM BAM! Both of today’s news items come from Anime UK News, and the first isn’t the Flintstones revival if that’s what you were thinking. BAM stands for Bexley Anime and Manga, and if you are in the vicinity of South East London come February...
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Anime Review Roundup
Susan Boyle Sings Anime No, pinch yourself, you are awake. Check the calendar, it’s not April. Susan Boyle, she of the angelic voice, and the less than 21st Century telegenic demeanour, who wowed the Britain’s Got Talent judges, and then wowed the...
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Anime Review Roundup
I got an early start on Christmas last week, as I began by taking a look at the long delayed Always My Santa. This should have been here last Christmas, but through circumstances beyond Manga’s control, it had to come out this year instead. It’s just...
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MCM Expo News and Anime Review Roundup
MCM News First It’s that time of year again, when people in the East End of London are confronted by men with spiky blonde hair, big red coats, and unfeasibly large guns (do people still cosplay as Vash the Stampede?), when they are accosted by...
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Anime Review Roundup
These are X clips, these clips are deceased, they have kicked the bucket… Today, X The TV Series makes its UK DVD debut, and to mark the occasion, we have two more clips, courtesy of MVM for you to partake of, and tantalise those taste buds with....
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Anime Review Roundup
Gantz: The Movie(s) The summer drought of anime news seems to be over, and juicy titbits of gossip are beginning to ooze out of the industry again. We must be getting close to convention season. We begin with the announcement that Gantz is going...
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Anime Review Roundup
Last week, the server burped, which means that this week’s Review Roundup is a rollover, with an estimated review jackpot of seven titles. But first, the olds (like the news, but not as current). The Winners of the Death Note boxsets are…...
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Anime Review Roundup
Forthcoming Anime Events in the UK It’s getting to festival season again, and there are plenty of things to do if you want to get away from those television screens and PC monitors and experience the real world. Every year there is the Sci-fi...
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Anime Review Roundup
Death Note Competition For me, 2008 was the year of the Death Note. The manga came to the UK, the live action feature films, and most pertinently, the animated television series. I had great pleasure in reviewing the anime for this site, and you...
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Anime Review Roundup
ADV No More! In case you have missed the news, last week ADV ceased to exist as a commercial entity, as detailed in a complex emission of legalese from their website, beginning with, “A.D.VISION, INC. CONCLUDES SERIES OF ASSET TRANSACTIONS”. Not...
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Anime Review Roundup
It was another bumper week for anime reviews last week, and I kicked things off early with Slayers Try: Volume 1. Yup, another series of Slayers comes to the UK, hot on the heels of Slayers Next, and this time, the pint-sized sorceress and her...
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Anime Review Roundup
It’s a genuine review roundup this week, although it’s not because news doesn’t exist out there. I just haven’t had the time to read any. But I will make up for it with a bumper selection of reviews, beginning with the big one of the week, Darker...
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Anime Review Roundup
Manga Twits Ahoy! Yup, another announcement via Twitter. In this age of global communication and information diaspora, it seems that we are following a trend towards a lack of communication skills and soundbite hell. No matter. Someone at UK...
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Anime Review Roundup
The Good News or The Bad News The Bad News – Revelation Hiatus The good news isn’t all that amazing, while the bad news isn’t all that shocking, but it’s all the news I have, so take heed. Revelation Films, who for the last few years have been...
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Anime Review Roundup
Mnemosyne has been licensed… By a twit So what is it with these DVD companies anyway? They have set budgets for marketing and advertising, they have PR companies to facilitate this, to get their message out in the ether, they even have their own...
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Anime Review Roundup
Release Date Changes It’s summertime, the weather’s fine, the days are long, and the lager is cheap. It’s no surprise then that anime isn’t a priority… Your release schedule is barrelling forward like a juggernaut, relentlessly crushing all in its...
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Anime Review Roundup (Updated)
(Update) The Next Big Thing From Beez Is Beez Entertainment certainly bring the choicest of anime to these shores, last year it was Haruhi Suzumiya, this year it has been Gundam 00 and Gurren Lagann. But wandering past the BBFC this afternoon I...
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Anime Review Roundup
Anime on Film4 (And it isn’t Ghibli!) Film4 have shown perhaps the greatest interest in anime of all the terrestrial channels, but till now it has been solely directed at the Ghibli catalogue. For a change however, they are bringing us something...
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Anime Review Roundup
The 60 Billion Double Dollar Question Has An Answer It was Anime Expo in the US this weekend just past, and there has been so much news that I have ignored… Well, it’s hard to get enthused about shows that won’t be released for six to twelve...
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Anime Review Roundup
Site Change: Online Anime! It took me long enough, but I’ve finally got round to putting semi-permanent links up to the legal online anime that is currently ringing my bell. That’s the list there on the right. No, your right. And I admit that the...
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Bad News About The Funimation Video Portal (Updated)
This Party Is Over I’ve been swearing a blue-streak all morning, and this will be more rant than news report, but the Funimation Video Portal is now back up and running, and it’s blocked to all non-North American citizens. That’s us in the UK....
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Anime Review Roundup
It’s Not A Transformer, OK! The world may be riding a wave of Transformers hype at the moment courtesy of the latest 2 and half hour waste of celluloid, but Transformers hype is nothing compared to Gundam hype in Japan. Michael Bay will only get...
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Anime Review Roundup
The Funimation Video Portal Is Back, With a Padlock Following the previous week’s security breaches, the Funimation Video Portal, which streams a whole host of their shows, and the shows of their partners to the world, was down for essential...
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Anime Review Roundup
Funimation Online Anime Update After last week’s brouhaha, you’d expect Funimation to have sorted something out, and they did. While their deal with Toei regarding One Piece is still up in the air, they still have ongoing simulcasts of Fullmetal...
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Anime Review Roundup
There’s always one idiot… If you remember last week, I reported that Funimation had new episodes of One Piece due for online simulcast. Well forget it. It’s not going to happen, at least not until they beef up their security. The thing about...
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MCM Expo News and Anime Review Roundup
The Expo Announcements Another year and another Expo has passed by, and once again I trawl through the Interweb to glean what news snippets there are. All the big players were there, ADV, Manga, Beez, MVM and Revelation, but not everyone had...
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Midweek Anime Update (Updated)
Manga News I told you that Expo time would unleash news stories upon the world faster than I could keep up. Well, Expo hasn’t even started and the news is already trickling out. Eagle eyes on Anime UK News have spotted among the forthcoming...
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Anime Review Roundup
Bubblegum Crisis Live Action I’m sure you’re all riding the surf of success following the Dragonball Z movie, and are looking forward eagerly to the next live action anime adaptation to be announced. Well wait no more, as it turns out that the...
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Anime Review Roundup (Updated)
Festival Season Is Here “THE UK'S PREMIER ANNUAL ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL The UK's premier annual Asian film festival, the Terracotta Far East Film Festival, will be held over four days this year at London's Prince Charles Cinema from Thursday 21st...
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Anime Review Roundup
This week’s free anime is… It’s all Crunchyroll again, and this week the fourth episode of Time of Eve was finally released. It’s a very Asimovian take on robots interacting with humans, supplemented by achingly gorgeous animation. They are short...
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Anime Review Roundup
Brand New Free and Legal Anime times 3 It's become a regular instalment of news, the latest series to be announced for streaming, there's probably more anime available to view online now, than on all non-Japanese television broadcasts put together....
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Anime Review Roundup
Crunchyroll's Next New Series Is… It was a news-lite week last week, which certainly saves me wearing the fingerprints off the end of my fingers. But you can't derail the Crunchyroll express, which continues regardless. This week's new series is...
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Anime Review Roundup
Crunchyroll's Spring Line-up-dated I did mention last week that Crunchyroll would be adding to its spring roster with even more new shows. Midweek saw the debut of Ristorante Paradiso, something a little more adult and mature, although in a vaguely...
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Anime Review Roundup
This has been a big, big week in the world of online anime, and if you partake of your anime in this way, you will be rubbing your hands with glee. There has been big news from both Crunchyroll and Funimation, so strap yourselves in… New Shows On...
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Anime Review Roundup
We have three categories of news this week… Big Screen Anime We begin first with the various showings of anime on the big screen coming up in the next few months. The Adolescence of Utena movie, the weirdly exhilarating mindwarp experience...
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Anime Review Roundup
How Long Is This Online Anime Revolution Going To Take Anyway? The past few months have certainly proved that people are more than prepared to watch anime online, and the idea of watching shows not long after their first airing in Japan has a...
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Anime Review Roundup
Anime on the Big Screen To coincide with The Royal Academy of Arts’ latest exhibition devoted to Kuniyoshi, the 19th century Japanese artist who inspired modern manga, the Curzon Soho cinema in London will be presenting a selection of some of the...
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Anime Review Roundup
Summer Anime News Part 1: Live Action Anime Coming Soon It’s a rare enough occurrence for me to grab a press release to copy and paste… One of the most eagerly anticipated live-action adaptations of any anime ever produced, BLOOD: THE LAST...
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Midweek Anime Bulletin
Trinity Blood Boxset Compo Winners! I’d like to thank everyone who entered our Trinity Blood Boxset Competition. The competition has now closed, and our hardworking random number generator has after much thought and calculation selected two...
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Anime Review Roundup
It was MVM titles exclusively last week, with a couple of penultimates, one ultimate, and one collection. I began with the penultimate volume of The Slayers, volume 3, which continues in its merry way with the comic RPG antics of sarcastic, sassy...
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Midweek Anime News!
February 28th is Global Shinkai Day 2009 Just in case you haven't seen the news on every anime website on the net, I'm posting it here. February 28th, this Saturday is when fans of anime auteur director Makoto Shinkai gather together in cyberspace...
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Anime Review Roundup (Updated)
Full Metal Alchemist Again… What is that old adage about, if it ain’t broke? No one listens to old adages anymore, which is a shame. I’ve already reviewed the brilliant Full Metal Alchemist series on this site, as well as the feature film, and my...
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Anime Review Roundup (Updated)
The Recession Keeps On… Recessing It’s annoying when UK companies fall flat, it makes it inconvenient sourcing that anime that you need so badly. It’s worrying when US companies fall flat, as you wonder who will be there to sub and dub those...
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Anime Review Roundup
It’s been a slow news week when it comes to anime in the UK, at least I’ve found little to be inspired, or concerned by. I had a moment at the weekend when I learned that Bandai Entertainment had put some episodes up on its Youtube channel, offering...
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