Better than a fairytale: our favourite anime princes
This time of year turns our thoughts to romance, and soothing away the hardships and misery of the dark winter days. What better way could there be to warm our hearts to [...]
Dragon Ball Z
Album review: Lipstick – Lipstick II
The golden age of glam challenged social and sexual norms with provocative rockers and a catchy tune or two. It took pioneers like Marc Bolan and David Bowie to give the [...]
Review: Fairy Tail Collection 12
Lucy has had her last memento of her father torn from her hands. The fabled Key of the Starry Sky was stolen by the Legion Corps, holy warriors working under the doctrine of [...]
Anime appropriation: hip hop, house and virtual bands
Anime and hip hop are unlikely bedfellows; both borrow from sundry sources, putting existing pieces together to form something fresh. Hip hop, as well as sampling music from [...]
More human than human: anime’s best cybernetic beings
Soft robotics are all the rage after the unveiling of the super-kawaii silicone octobot, and each new android incarnation out of Japan seems smarter and closer to the real [...]
Update: Digimon Adventure tri. English dub previews Joshua Seth’s return as Tai
US film distributors Eleven Arts spent five weeks from July announcing the voice actors for theirs and Toei Animation’s English dub of Digimon Adventure tri. Chapter [...]
On falling out of love with anime
In its very definition, otaku, and by extension fan culture in its entirety, carries with it a whiff of the obsessional. It’s doubtful any fan would deny that. After all, [...]
FunimationNow adds Arslan for the UK, announces dub casts for Servamp and First Love Monster
Since July 15th, FUNimation have been revealing the voice casts for their broadcast dubs of this summer season. The most recently announced was SERVAMP, and before its [...]
Toru Furuya celebrates 50 years of anime voice acting
Voice actor Toru Furuya has been in the business for fifty years now, racking up credits as Mobile Suit Gundam‘s Amuro Ray, Dragon Ball Z‘s Yamcha and Sailor [...]
They came from outer space: our favourite anime aliens
From Parasyte’s fascination with John Carpenter’s The Thing to Cowboy Bebop’s fridge-spawned spoof of Alien, the simultaneous revulsion and attraction to the [...]
