Masaaki Yuasa’s Night is Short, Walk on Girl is the latest anime film coming to UK screens thanks to All the Anime. It’s difficult to describe the plot of this film, partly because encapsulating it in a few sentences can’t possibly do it justice. Senpai has a major crush on his younger kohai, Otome. Rather … Continue reading
I’m usually somewhat sceptical about series that are based on video games, mainly because I expect them to be not-so-subtle marketing tools. In spite of my reservations, I was keen to check out God Eater because it looked pretty damn cool. God Eater is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which terrifying monsters known as … Continue reading
When was the last time you ate food that was so damn good it made your clothes fly off? If two of your favourite things in life are food and anime, you can’t go wrong with Food Wars! (Shokugeki no Soma). This series is the perfect mix of mouth-watering, hilarious, dramatic and over-the-top, and I didn’t even realise … Continue reading
The UK’s been very fairly lucky this year and had its fair share of anime screenings in cinemas, something which a few years ago I could only dream of. A lot of these UK film screenings have come courtesy of Anime Limited and the most recent one to grace UK cinema screens for the first … Continue reading
School Live! (Gakkou Gurashi!) crept up on me, almost like a zombie epidemic creeping up on an unsuspecting populace. Oddly enough, this series sits in two categories I normally don’t watch – high school/slice of life and zombies. But I’d heard it had been well received when it originally released in Japan so, hoping to … Continue reading
With a social media name like SengokuSophie, it should be pretty obvious that I have a slightly obsession with Japan’s Sengoku period (Warring States period). As a history nut, samurai are awesome and, as a long-time anime-watcher, samurai in anime tend to be cool and good-looking too. While there are loads of anime series with … Continue reading
One Punch Man was released in Japan in 2015 and was hyped up by the anime-watching community worldwide. I missed the hype train when it pulled into the station but now that MangaUK is releasing it for UK audiences (17 July), I finally had a chance to watch it myself. For me, the big question … Continue reading
I was very excited to see MangaUK had licensed In This Corner of the World for cinema screenings in the UK and was very quick to book my tickets. I’d heard very good things about this anime film that, surprisingly, came into being because of crowdfunding. In This Corner of the World follows the life … Continue reading
I should start this anime review by pointing out that I wasn’t a huge Digimon fan when I was younger. I was a die-hard Pokemon fan and in my mind you could only be one or the other, although I would secretly glimpse episodes of Digimon then deny it. Digimon was a staple series for … Continue reading
If My Love Story!! (Ore Monogatari) was a person I’d hug it to death. I never realised how badly I needed this series in my life. I watched this entire series with a silly grin plastered across my face – it’s simply joyous and cute and hilarious! My Love Story!! is a high school romance … Continue reading
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