In this article L. Meridian takes a look at the first episode of the anime Future Diary. The manga is written by Sakae Esuno and published, in English, by Tokyopop. The anime comes via the studio Asread with Funimation enjoying the license in the US and Kaze in the UK. At first glance, Future Diary […]
Poster: See You Space Cowboy
This wonderful Cowboy Bebop poster is a variant grey edition by Alexander Iaccarino. There are limited numbers so if you want one you’ll have to be quick.
Three minutes of Captain Harlock
Harlock has been many incarnations but this computer animated Space Pirate Captain Harlock looks like it’ll be one of the best. Jinx. You certainly can get a food feel for the movie with this chunky trailer, more than 3 minutes in length and full of beautiful space scenes of deadly battle and explosions. The Japanese […]
Dragon Ball Fries… are super!
Who knew the infamous Super Saiyan look from the Dragon Ball series would work so well as food. No ordinary food, of course, but super fries!
The Memories of Phantasm: Fan made game sees second anime
The Memories of Phantasm is the second anime to come out of the dojin game Touhou Project. Touhou Project is a shooter developed by ZUN. That’s all we know about her or him. A dojin game is a fan made project and ZUN is responsible for all the graphics, programming and music, well, pretty much. […]
My Neighbor Kurama
This is an anime mashup. Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro is blended with Naruto. The result? My Neighbor Kurama. Created by Jin Joson, the clever image refers to the spirit of the Nine Tail Fox that is trapped inside Naruto. The mashup works not just as a smashup but as an inspired way to show […]
OVA: The Anime Role-Playing game shatters Kickstarter targets
[Back this Campaign] What anime RPG comes to mind? Big Eyes, Small Mouth from Guardians of Order? A superhero RPG? HeartQuest? I think there’s room for more. There is OVA and in fairness it hadn’t hit my radar until their successful Kickstarter. Perhaps I’m not the only one in the same boat because as of […]
First Squad review
First Squad is an anime set on the Eastern Front as Russia fought the Nazis. We watched it with English sub-titles and most of the dialogue was in Russian. The plot is straight forward with the twist at the start rather than the end. We follow a young woman, with a red blindfold and a […]
London Anime Con gears up for another year
This year the London Anime Con will run from 20th to the 21st of July. The convention will be held at the Rocket Complex London Metropolitan University and the early signs are the con is nicely balanced. The convention lists some pretty impressive sponsors; Game.co.uk, Sfx, Yelp, Bandai Namco and plenty of others. At the […]
Space Pirate Captain Harlock poster
Captain Harlock, created by the manage arist Leiji Matsumoto, has appeared in a few shows. They include Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Arcadia of my Youth, Harlock Saga, Gun Frontier (in which he was the sidekick!) and Endless Oydssey. The new movie has been in production for a few years anad the trailer first aired at […]
