We’re delighted to announce that Scotland Loves Anime audience choice winner Blue Giant is coming to selected cinemas across the UK and Ireland from January 31st, 2024!
‘One Piece’ is getting an anime remake (wait, wut?)
Yes, Netflix are really doing an anime remake of a live-action show, based on an anime, based on a manga.
Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ reaches a record-breaking $12.8m opening at the US box office
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron from Stubio Ghibli has broken a record in the United States, as the first original anime title in history to reach the top of the country’s charts with an impressive $12.8 million.
Jazz to the MAX: A review of Blue Giant
Aside from reading the synopsis, I knew absolutely nothing about Blue Giant before going in – and I know very little about jazz (can’t even read sheet music, in fact). But that didn’t stop this from being a very enjoyable film. ~B
Warm and a bit spicy: A review of Komada – A Whisky Family
I buy my whisky from Masters of Malt (which has an excellent whisky Santa, btw) and they’re an English company. I’m Scottish. And yet, I’m not sure I recall Scotland getting mentioned once in Komada – A Whisky Family. Despite several characters being, you know, whisky fans. It looks like I can forgive Masayuki Yoshihara […]
The low-down on Crunchyroll’s industry panel announcements from Monday
We built this story on CRUNCHYROLL… well, Crunchyroll‘s latest industry panel announcements from Anime Expo 2023, that is. A lot was announced, including the new never-before-seen trailer for anime Solo Leveling (which got its own story)… and everything you’re about to see below. There’s a lot to get through, so we’re going to summarise each […]
Trailer: ‘One Piece’ will see the Straw Hat Pirates Set Sail in August!
It’s been a hot minute since it was first announced in 2020, but from the looks of it, One Piece will be worth the wait! Netflix will see the Straw Hat Pirates set sail in a live-action adaptation of the popular manga One Piece in August – and we have the teaser trailer for you right […]
The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy is another pro-demon anime
Anime does like to come at you in waves of popular topics, and while isekai is undoubtedly one, it tends to focus on a you-or-I style character going somewhere fantasy and becoming mighty.
Awkward! My Stepmom’s Daughter Is My Ex trailer
There’s “slice of life”, and then there’s “awkward slice of life” anime. I suspect My Stepmom’s Daughter Is My Ex won’t be the former.
Tokyo Revengers: Time traveller relives brutal gang wars
In Tokyo Revengers, Takemichi Hanagaki travels back in time, to his life, just with his memories intact and a chance to change the future. There’s no shiny fresh start for him, only a return to the world he thought he had escaped.
