O Maidens In Your Savage Season Collection

O Maidens In Your Savage Season Collection (Cert 18) 2 Discs Blu-ray (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 303 minutes approx. “Girls think about sex too!” After years of slice-of-life anime series convincing us that all Japanese high school girls are chaste, virtuous and largely asexual, it seems the current trend is dispel this myth and instead …

Revue Starlight Collector’s Collection

Revue Starlight Collector’s Collection (Cert PG) 2 Discs Blu-ray (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 301 minutes approx.   No doubt you have seen TV talent shows like The X Factor, The Voice, et al, and thought the audition process seemed quite demanding and often unforgiving on the poor saps desperate for their fifteen minutes of fame. Well, …

Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid

Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid (Cert 12) 2 Discs DVD/Blu-ray (Distributor: Manga Entertainment) Running time: 310 minutes approx.  In the same week MVM releases Mysteria Friends in the UK about the friendship (and possibly more) between a young human girl and a dragon girl, Manga Entertainment also bring us a show with a similar premise - …

Mysteria Friends Collector’s Edition

Mysteria Friends Collector’s Edition (Cert 15) 1 Disc Blu-ray (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 152 minutes approx. I must apologise in advance for the excessive filibustering present in this review but the title under discussion doesn’t give me much to work with, and since I set myself a 1000 word limit for each review, I don’t …

Domestic Girlfriend Collection

Domestic Girlfriend Collection (Cert 18) 2 Discs Blu-ray (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 329 minutes approx. The harem set-up in anime is the ultimate male wish fulfilment fantasy for lonely losers like me to live vicariously through, except it is always played for comedy since it won’t ever occur in real life. But what if it …

Ground Control To Psycho Electric Girl

Ground Control To Psycho Electric Girl (Cert 12) 2 Discs Blu-ray (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 333 minutes approx. What would it take for you to believe in aliens? Seeing one in person, witnessing their otherworldly powers in action, or simply taking the word of someone who thinks they are an alien? Since this is anime, …

Fate/Stay Night Heaven’s Feel 2: Lost Butterfly

Fate/Stay Night Heaven’s Feel 2: Lost Butterfly (Cert 15) 1 Disc Blu-ray/DVD (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 117 minutes approx. The second instalment of this latest feature length retelling of the Fate/Stay Night saga offers no concession to casual viewers or anyone with a poor memory, continuing the story from where the first film Presage Flower …

Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Part One

Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Part One (Eps 1-13) (Cert 15) 2 Discs DVD/Blu-ray (Distributor: Manga Entertainment) Running time: 326 minutes approx. As the title helpfully explains, this second series of the rebooted adaptation of the classic space opera Space Battleship Yamato is set three years after the first adventure. In that time a …

One Piece: Stampede

One Piece: Stampede (Cert 12) 1 Disc Blu-ray/2 Discs DVD/Blu-ray Ltd Edition Steelbook (Distributor: Manga Entertainment) Running time: 102 minutes approx. Avast me hearties! We set sail once again for another rip roaring madcap theatrical adventure with the crew of the Thousand Sunny, the Straw Hats. But this is no ordinary big screen outing as …

Black Clover Season 2 Part 3

Black Clover Season 2 Part 3 (Episodes 73-83) (Cert 12) 2 Discs DVD/Blu-ray (Distributor: Manga Entertainment) Running time: 263 minutes approx. After the filler-esque distractions of the last volume, it is back to business with this latest instalment of the Black Clover story. We pick up the action where we left it, following the Clover …