23 Feb, 2012

The past 24 hours have been very interesting for Bleach with two major stories breaking. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the current anime series of Bleach will be drawing to a conclusion on 27th March 2012. The series has been running continuously since 2004 and has had its fair share of ups and downs, the series has become notorious for...

22 Feb, 2012

The latest issue of the UK’s anime, manga and Asian pop culture magazine, NEO, is on sale this Thursday, 23rd February, 2012. Featured inside is a round up of the greatest anime movies of all time, featuring their very own top ten list, plus contributions from NEO readers themselves! NEO also contains previews of Fairy Tail and The New Prince of Tennis,...

22 Feb, 2012

But didn’t we just see a K-ON! figure review I hear you cry? Indeed we did, with a review of Alter’s Yui Hirasawa just a few months past.  This time though, we’ll be looking at her bandmate behind the drumkit, the feisty Ritsu Tainaka, in what might be the most elaborate figure we’ve yet seen.       Ritsu comes in a...

22 Feb, 2012

MVM have announced via their facebook page that the first of two new titles they will be releasing is Broken Blade. Broken Blade is a series of six OVA’s each one is 50 minutes in length, MVM have not announced how they intend to release the series but it will probably be as a single box set similar to the US release. Broken Blade will find itself as one...

20 Feb, 2012

Hyper Japan is the premier J-Culture event in the UK and is running it’s Spring show this weekend, from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th February 2012, at Earls Court in London. I attended the Sunday of the  last show, in July of last year, and it was an absolute blast, you can read the review here. Spread across the whole weekend and half of Friday, Hyper...