20 Mar, 2012

Set in a Blade Runner looking future, Mardock Scramble – The First Compression takes a straightforward witness/victim taking the bad guy to court whilst the bad guy continues to try to murder them theme, and splashes it liberally with sci-fi. Rune Ballot is a young prostitute, taken in by the smooth talking Shell, a man who has his memories regularly removed,...

19 Mar, 2012

As we speculated at the end of January it has been confirmed via NEO Magazine that Manga Entertainment will indeed be releasing Blue Exorcist in the UK. Manga has announced that the supernatural anime series will be released over two double disc box sets and will be a subtitle only release. The fact that they are going to be releasing a sub only release could...

13 Mar, 2012

Hyper Japan is the UK’s foremost J-Culture event, and took place from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th February 2012, at Earls Court in London. I attended on the Saturday and whilst no review can truly do an event justice, I shall endeavor to provide the highlights of what we saw! The location of the Brompton Hall at Earl’s Court was ideal, being...

12 Mar, 2012

The previous Bleach release left a lot to be desired so you wouldn’t be blamed for thinking things could only get better, and if you like Bleach battles then you will certainly find them in this first volume of series 8, however you are fairly unlikely to find anything else of value. If you are familiar with Bleach then you will be well aware that it...