Entries from December 2007

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Doesn’t Time Fly?

Well it’s that time of year again. 2007 is drawing to a close… and what a year it has been. Following on from Martins post last week, I figured I would toss my opinion into the ring. In the last 5 years I have personally never seen anything quite like this year. We’ve had the [...]

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

2007: the token retrospective

As anime and manga slowly but surely become more and more of an integral part of the UK’s popular culture, it’s fair to say that we as fans have never had it so good. Whether you share this view or not, there have been some important events in the past twelve months that have, for [...]

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Yen Press Launches in UK

A new manga imprint is always cause for rejoicing and the promise of ‘Unfiltered manga for the unfettered mind’ was enough to make this self-confessed mangahead sit up and take notice. Yen Press have launched their list in the UK this autumn with an exciting and varied list of titles, including the first volumes of [...]

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

The Anime and Videogame Communities

Recent events in the anime and videogame industries have got me thinking about the differences between the two, the overlap, and the underlying cultures behind them.
As both an anime and a videogame fan, I enjoy the mechanics and culture of the industries, as well as comparisons between the two. Every industry is unique, from music, [...]

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Beginners guide to shojo manga

No one believes me when I say I used to be a tomboy, I read far too much fluffy shojo manga for anyone to believe that! Shojo for those who don’t know is girls manga with storylines about romance, friendship and er… a bit of scandal. As I get a lot of requests from AUKN forum [...]