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Tonikawa: Over the Moon for You

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 […]

DAN DA DAN: First Encounter in UK cinemas

GET READY FOR A SUPERNATURAL ANIME PHENOMENON WITH A BIG SCREEN CELEBRATION OF  DAN DA DAN: First Encounter ©Yukinobu Tatsu/SHUEISHA, DANDADAN Production Committee 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 […]

BLEACH UK release plans revealed!

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 […]

NARUTO UK Blu-ray release plans unleashed!

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. ©2002 MASASHI KISHIMOTO Well, today is the day where […]

Navigating this Blog

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 […]

Rental Magica

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 […]

A Place Further Than the Universe

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, […]

Trapped in a Dating Sim

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 […]