Blade Dance of the Elementalers begins with fan service – except we don’t know the characters yet so it’s more ‘service’ and less ‘fan’. That sets the tone for the series and suits the outro song about knee high socks. It’s easy to poke fun at Blade Dance of the Elementalers. So many of the […]
Surreal: Humanity Has Declined
I wasn’t long into Humanity Has Declined before I realised this might be the anime equivalent is coming back from the dentist after an antithetic and where the world is a strange place. In the first few episodes we have fairies, featherless and headless intelligent chickens and paradogs created in response to time paradoxes. The […]
Garm Wars coming to the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmqLB91siIo Garm Wars is the first English language film from Mamoru Oshii. Oshii is best known for his work on Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor and The Sky Crawlers. Garm Wars: The Last Druid merges live-action with CG to tell the story of a world in which three tribes of clone warriors are locked in […]
An introduction to Josei: Review of Bakumatsu Rock
I liked the premise of the series. Take a Japan where back in the 19th century, the dark rulers of the Tokugawa Shogunate ruled and banned all performers from singing any son that wasn’t a “Heaven’s Song”. These Heaven’s Songs work by brainwashing, calming and subjugating the masses. Skip forward and enter Sakamoto Ryouma and […]
Wizards vs Science: A review of a Certain Magical Index
I knew the light novel series A Certain Magical Index is very popular and so I was quite interested to see what the anime has to offer. It’s a wise choice from the still new but experienced Animatsu team who are responsible for buying the license and bringing the title to the UK. The series […]
Competition: Win Red Vs Blue
Geek Native has a copy of Red Vs Blue season 11 to give away on DVD. The award-winning, Halo universe inspired, fun and games continue as both the Red and Blue teams are shipwrecked in a mysterious canyon together. Can they work it out or will they fight again? Red Vs Blue is being brought […]
Competition: Nadia – The Secret of Blue Water
In Geek Native’s review of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water I suggested watching the series was like having nostalgia for something you didn’t watch the first time round. The animation style, from the 90s, reminds me very much of classic cartoons like The Mysterious Cities of Gold but this particular Jules Verne inspired series […]
Nostalgia you never knew you had: A Nadia – The Secret of Blue Water review
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water is being re-released by Animatsu in the UK later this month. I never saw any of the original run but watching the series for the first time summoned up plenty of nostalgia. The original run was back in 1990. The show ran for a year, notching up some 39 […]
Anime wizards: An interview with Animatsu
At the start of the year Geek Native reported on the rise of Animatsu and a launch with 11 titles. Former Manga UK managers Jerome Mazandarani and Andrew Hewson have taken their expertise and created a company that’s not just an anime distributor but touches on production and IP. Sound interesting? Geek Native reached out […]
Animatsu hit the ground running with 11 launch titles
Animatsu Entertainment Ltd is a new UK based company that will specialise in the distribution and production of anime. Mainly anime, that is, as the new company will also look at Japanese TV titles and live action productions. Animatsu was formed late last year after COO Jerome Mazandarani left Manga UK along with Andrew Hewson. […]
