The suspect, a 41-year-old male, walked into Kyoto Animation’s main studio, splashed petrol around, shouted “Drop dead” and then lit the fires.
The anime to move you: A review of A Silent Voice
A Silent Voice is the anime to show those nagging friends who think anime only features bikini catgirls in space pirate battles. This is a hard-hitting slice of life drama about bullying. The anime was directed by Naoko Yamada who is probably best known for K-On – another school drama but a world apart from […]
The cutest rock and roll ever: K-On season 2 review
I’d heard all about how popular K-On was, been told the series was “surprisingly good” but my first chance to watch any was K-On: The Movie in which the High School Light Music Club go to London. I rather enjoyed it. I was surprised despite being told, several times, that the series was surprisingly good. […]
Sony backs high school guitar band
Does a Japanese all-girl high school band sound like the stuff of anime to you? K-On, perhaps? That’s 3 sets of drums and 5 guitars for the band. They’re called 五五七二三二〇, which I’m told is pronounced, “go go nana ni san ni rei”. I believe the band are actual high school girls. The song is […]
Anime icons in London: K-On! The Movie review
I hadn’t seen any of K-On! I had heard of it and it’s reputation as being a good, safe and solid anime but perhaps that’s why it was always on my “maybe one day” rather than my “must watch while I can” list. K-On! The Movie gave me a chance to fix that. In particular, […]
Anime complete series sets in Zavvi’s Mega Monday sale again
UK retailer Zavvi has a “Mega Monday” sale promotion that, as the name suggests, happens once a week. The sale drops the price of everything from games, through to technology, blu-rays and DVDs by up to 80%. Once and a while the sale features some anime and when it does it becomes the source of […]
Win Manga loot at MCM Expo
May 25 to 27th at the Excel in London is MCM Expo aka Comic Con London. This is the largest pop culture festival in the UK with cosplay, a games expo and a whole comic village. Noel Clark will be there, stars from Teen Wolf, Once Upon a Time and Grimm along with C-3PO star […]
