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13 dead as K-On, Violet Evergarden and Silent Voice anime studio attacked by an arsonist

July 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: a silent voice, beyond the boundary, clannad, Full Metal Panic!, k-on, Kyoto Animation, violet evergarden

The anime to move you: A review of A Silent Voice

October 23, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: a silent voice, k-on, Naoko Yamada, reviews, scotland loves anime

The cutest rock and roll ever: K-On season 2 review

June 25, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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. […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: k-on, manga uk, reviews

Sony backs high school guitar band

March 4, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Japanese genius, k-on, sony

Anime icons in London: K-On! The Movie review

December 24, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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, […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: k-on, manga uk, reviews

Anime complete series sets in Zavvi’s Mega Monday sale again

October 1, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: ah! my goddess, Black Butler, bleach, casshern sins, d. gray-man, gantz, k-on, nabari no ou, rideback, sale, strike witches, the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya, zavvi

Win Manga loot at MCM Expo

May 21, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Anime, Comics Tagged With: comic con, competitions, k-on, Kevin Eastman, manga, Naruto Shippuden, neo, Rich Magallanes, star wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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