With MCM London Comic Con taking place this weekend, between 23rd and 25th May 2025, at the ExCeL Centre in London, it is now the perfect time to highlight some of the anime related activities and guests that will be taking place throughout the weekend. Of course, this won’t be an exhaustive list of things …
The week sees a single release from Crunchyroll in the form of Shangri-La Frontier – Season 1 Part 2, but there is more to explore this week with MCM London Comic Con taking place this weekend at the ExCeL Centre. Out This Week: 19th May 2025: Shangri-La Frontier – Season 1 Part 2 (Blu-Ray) Out …
It hasn’t escaped my notice that there’s an odd symmetry between the two Patron Pick winners, past and present, occupying Sunday nights on my schedule. Shoushimin Series (like Kusuriya no Hitorigogo, as I’ve noted more than once) is better when it’s about something. But Witch Watch is very much in the opposite camp. I find …
Welcome back for another episode of My Taste is Better Than Yours. This week Samu and I are back in JUMPing mode, as we take a first look at the two new Weekly Shounen Jump serializations Tomoshibi no Otr (Otr of the Flame) by Kawaguchi Yuki, and Nice Prison by Suganuma Tatsuya. Spoiler: it’s a …
It’s not been a great week for anime. Impressions: Better than the school arc at least, and certainly the current TBH episodes, but I’m getting pretty tired of the two minutes of the frog monsters every week as we wait for anybody to… you know… care about the swarm of giant amphibeans apparently roaming …
This was a Black Butler episode full of twists and turns. And they were an intriguing combination of the expected and unexpected. My working theory was that the whole curse premise was a chemical weapon scenario (I actually suggested a biological agent last week), and that the werewolf thing was a cover story. As such …
