30 Jul, 2012

This week we have four high profile releases from Manga Entertainment and Kaze UK. Firstly we have the Blu-ray boxset releases of the 1st and 2nd season of Black Lagoon from Kaze. These boxsets had been planned to be released alongside the DVD release earlier in the month but after a few weeks delay they have finally made it to our shores. You can catch our...

27 Jul, 2012

Spice and Wolf tells of the adventures of Kraft Lawrence, a travelling merchant and Holo, the deity appearing as a young girl with wolf ears and a bushy tail. They met in the first season (as reviewed here) when Lawrence inadvertently provided her a way to leave the fields of Pasloe that she had been tied to. After some initial hesitance and somewhat in...

25 Jul, 2012

Behold the madness this 30th July in the form of Panty and Stocking With Garter Belt Complete Series Collection (Manga Entertainment). Foul-mouthed fallen angels Panty and Stocking must rid Daten City of malevolent ghosts if they’re to be allowed back into heaven. Without a doubt, one of the rudest, crudest, funniest and weirdest anime ever made- available...

23 Jul, 2012

Based on a visual novel, Clannad follows the life of Tomoya Okazaki, a high school student slacker, as he helps his friends with their varying problems and situations. This is the second half of Clannad (we reviewed the first half here), where we follow Tomoya’s trials and tribulations of helping out his fellow students. Continuing hot on the heels of the...

22 Jul, 2012

It’s a couple of weeks on anime sequels and volumes with only three new release in two weeks. Last week we had the release of Black Butler completed 2nd season offering up new characters and story with a somewhat familiar theme. If you enjoyed the original series then you might  be very interested in this one. You can catch our review of the 2nd series...

21 Jul, 2012

It’s been a while since we’ve looked at something from Max factory’s near-ubiquitous Figma range of action figures, but it hasn’t been long at all since we looked at something Shin Megami Tensei: Persona related. This time though we’ll be looking at a character from Persona 4, the 2008 Playstation 2 game that has proved the most...

18 Jul, 2012

The upcoming Blu-ray release of Ninja Scroll has been pushed back from its October release to the end of November. Manga Entertainment have not offered a reason for the delay but it only having been put back six weeks means we won’t have to wait too much longer for it to be released. The Ninja Scroll Blu-ray release is debuting exclusively in the UK and...

17 Jul, 2012

MVM have confirmed yesterday that their planned release for Mayo Chiki! has been delayed until next year. The reason for the delay is that it has been revealed that there is no english language dub planned for the series. One can only presume that is there is still no dub planned for next year then it might not be too surprising to see it disappear off the...

16 Jul, 2012

Hetalia: World Series, personifies countries as often hilarious clichés and cultural stereotypes. Its precursor series Axis Powers, had them interact to portray various political and historical events generally centred around WWII, whilst lampooning the stereotypes about those countries and their people, delivered in 5 minute episodes. World Series tends to...

10 Jul, 2012

Despite having a reputation in the west as ‘those violent cartoons’, anime in recent years has tended to scale back its more bloody excesses, partly due to Japan’s tightening of censorship laws and partly due to the decline of the direct-to-video OVA market. Black Lagoon, however, bucks this trend so gleefully, you’d think it was doing...