Hello World Anime Review

Hello World Japan (2019) Dir. Tomohiko Ito We would all like to go back in time and change something in our pasts but we can’t, and even if we could, there are infinite possibilities to the scope of irreparable damage this could cause for us personally and the world around us. Yet, we never learn. …

The Demon Girl Next Door Anime Review

The Demon Girl Next Door (Cert 12) 2 Discs Blu-ray (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 302 minutes approx. Release Date: February 8th Puberty! We’ve all been there - going to bed one night as a smooth skinned, worry free callow teenager, then wake up the next morning with horns growing out of our heads and long …

ID: Invaded Anime Review

ID: Invaded (Cert 18) 2 Discs DVD/Blu-ray (Distributor: Manga Entertainment) Running time: 323 minutes approx. Per Wikipedia: “The Id is the instinctual component of personality that is present at birth, and is the source of bodily needs and wants, emotional impulses and desires, especially aggression” In the future, the Mizuhanome System has been developed which …

Demon City Shinjuku (Makai Toshi: Shinjuku) Anime Review

Demon City Shinjuku (Makai Toshi: Shinjuku) Japan (1988) Dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri Oh, the things a man will do for a pretty face. There may not be the kind of reward he is hoping for at the end of it, but male bravado is just as toxic as the male libido when it comes to overriding …

3D Kanojo – Real Girl Collection Anime Review

3D Kanojo - Real Girl Collection (Cert 12) 3 Discs Blu-ray (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 563 minutes approx. Release Date: January 18th    Despite anime being immensely popular in Japan and across the globe, being an otaku is apparently enough to make you a social pariah on the same level as admitting to liking Mrs. …

Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? Season 2 Anime Review

Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? Season 2 (Cert 15) 2 Discs Blu-ray/Ltd Edition 4 discs DVD/Blu-ray (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 325 minutes approx. Release Date: January 11th    Before we get into this review, I must warn you that I haven’t seen the first series of this fantasy harem show …

MIB’s Top Ten Anime of 2020 (UK)

If you think about, 2020 should have been a boon year for UK anime fans being cooped up indoors due to the COVID pandemic meant more time to watch anime! In theory at least. Plenty of new titles were released during the new with some real corkers as well as glut of new films and …

MIB’s Top Ten Anime of 2020 (Japan)

  You don’t need me to tell you that 2020 has been one of the craziest years in recent memory due to the COVID pandemic. Whilst it has taken many lives and inconvenienced millions of others, one area hit hard was the arts, with production of many films and TV shows either brought to a …

Wicked City (Youjuu Toshi) Anime Review

Wicked City (Youjuu Toshi) Japan (1987) Dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri Some people get shirty if others mix with those outside of their own race or religion. I wonder how they feel about mixing with someone who is not even of the same species? Probably wouldn’t go down so well, but would they be less begrudging if …

Ride Your Wave (Kimi to, nami ni noretara) Anime Review

Ride Your Wave (Kimi to, nami ni noretara) Japan (2019) Dir. Masaaki Yuasa Having a passion is great; finding someone to share it with isn’t always easy. If you do then you are very lucky, others struggle to persuade their partners even to care about their passions, let alone sharing it with them. But maybe …