UK Anime News, Reviews and Blu-ray Region Checks
20/09/2017 Leave a comment
Manga Entertainment UK have announced that the upcoming Blu-ray release of Beyond The Boundary: I’ll Be Here, which consists of two feature length movies within the Beyond the Boundary franchise, will be updated to a Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack; furthermore the Blu-ray Disc will feature both films. Read more of this post
01/09/2017 Leave a comment
Castle Town Dandelion – The Complete Series (Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack)
BD Region: A (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region A Only
DVD Region: 1 (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region 1 Only
Price: $45.69 / £35.37 (Excludes postage)
Episodes: 1 –12 (2 Blu-ray & 2 DVD)
Plot: The Sakuradas are a perfectly normal family living in a perfectly normal apartment. Except that their father happens to be a king, making them all royalty. And they’re watched by over 200 surveillance cameras and are kind of their own reality show!
There’s also the fact that each sibling has their own special power.
29/08/2017 Leave a comment
Ultimate Otaku Teacher – Season 1 Part 2 (Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack)
BD Region: A (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region A Only
DVD Region: 1 (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region 1 Only
Price: $38.82 / £29.07 (Excludes postage)
Episodes: 13 –24 (2 Blu-ray & 2 DVD)
Plot: The ultimate otaku teacher, Junichiro Kagami, is back with his unique group of students. But as the school year goes on, things start to get…spooky! When tasked to clean out the old dorms, Kagami and his students stumble upon the ghost of a former classmate.
All she wants to do is pass on to the next life but is having a little trouble. Are they up for this spiritual lesson Things heat up when conflict arises between a gang leader and pop idol. Are street smarts more important than school smarts Once things start to calm down, even Kagami’s most troubled students start settling into better lives.
Realizing that he’s neglected things he used to care about like his blog, figurines, and anime, Kagami begins to question if teaching is where he truly belongs. When the opportunity to work on his Anywhere Door arises, he’ll have to make a tough choice. What does Kagami really yearn to do: teach or research
25/08/2017 Leave a comment
Ultimate Otaku Teacher – Season 1 Part 1 (Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack)
BD Region: A (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region A Only
DVD Region: 1 (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region 1 Only
Price: $38.82 / £29.07 (Excludes postage)
Episodes: 1 –12 (2 Blu-ray & 2 DVD)
Plot: Junichiro Kagami is on his sisters last nerve. Despite his genius and scientific accomplishments, hes spent most of his adult life cooped up inside, surrounded by anime and manga, working on trivial things like a blog.
But now, its time for him to get a real job! His reason for being such a bum? He suffers from YD: a debilitating illness that means he can only do things he yearns to do. Tired of this lame excuse, his sister gets him a job doing something hed never expectteaching!
Teaching is the last thing Kagami yearns to do, at least until he comes across the various problems his students face outside of the classroom. Between their quirky dreams, serious attitude problems, and surprising secrets, Junichiro is definitely in for some far-out lessons. What he teaches these kids will be beyond the books!
08/08/2017 3 Comments
If you missed the news earlier today on Manga UK’s Instagram account (via Instagram Stores), or on our own Twitter and Instagram feeds, Manga Entertainment UK have revealed that their upcoming Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack Releases of A Certain Magical Index II and A Certain Scientific Railgun S, both of which will be available from the 21st August 2017, will be packaged inside DVD sized cases. Read more of this post
03/08/2017 Leave a comment
Sky Wizards Academy – The Complete Series (Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack)
BD Region: A (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region A Only
DVD Region: 1 (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region 1 Only
Price: $34.99 / £26.56 (Excludes postage)
Episodes: 1 –12 (2 Blu-ray & 2 DVD)
Plot: Once known as the Black Master Swordsman, Kanata Age has fallen in favor with the people of Misutogan after a harrowed battle against the Devil Beetles. Deemed a traitor, he has earned the scorn of his peers and classmates.
Kanata is happy enough to fade into the background, until one day he is asked to become the teacher of Fireteam E601 aka the F’ed up Fireteam.
01/08/2017 Leave a comment
Sengoku Basara – Season 1 & Season 2 (Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack) [S.A.V.E Edition]
BD Region: A (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
—Boxart states Region A only
– Season 1 is Region Locked (just like the original release)
– Season 2 is Region Free (just likethe original release)
DVD Region: 1 (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region 1 only
Price: $24.98 / £19.21 (Excludes Postage)
Episodes: 1 – 25 + OVA’s (4 Blu-ray & 4 DVD)
Plot: Based on the world created by the masters at Capcom. Sengoku Basara drops you directly into the burning battlefields of feudal Japan, where rival warlords hack and slash their way to total domination.
Each conqueror wields a special attack that boosts their powers of devastation, and each commands a horde of relentless warriors. But when a supreme evil – the Demon Lord – threatens the land, these fierce generals launch a co-op campaign of annihilation and build an army of armies to obliterate their common foe.
As the front line grows crowded with gun-toting, mechanized samurai and mystical ninja, some will say that war is hell – Sengoku Basara proves it can also be kick ass.
—–NOTE—–
Manga Entertainment UK has released Sengoku Basara (Season 1) on Blu-ray as well as The Last Party movie as a Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack. Alternatively Australia have released a ‘complete collection’ which contains Season 1, Season 2 and the Film in one set; all of which is Region B compatible.
26/07/2017 Leave a comment
Fairy Tail – Collection 8 (Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack)
BD Region: A (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region A Only
DVD Region: 1 (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region 1 Only
Price: $35.69 / £27.44 (Excluding postage)
Episodes: 165 – 187 (4 Blu-ray’s & 4 DVD’s)
Plot: The most epic magic tournament is history continues as the members of FairyTale attempt to snatch victory from the stronger guilds in the Grand Magic Games. When either guilds start playing dirty, Ezra challenges one hundred deadly opponents in a battle unlike anything the Fiore Kingdom has ever seen.
With the magical world completely focused on the completing guilds, a looming threat gains power and conspiracy is revealed! Lucy and Yukino are accused and imprisoned for their involvement, and it’s up to Natsu to free them. But just when things are going as planned, they’re tossed into an inescapable palace and face a group more twisted and challenging than any guild.
As everyone fights for the kingdom and their freedom, the threat of a doomsday prediction could destroy everything they know, and when secrets are exposed and parts connected a shocking reveal of a familiar face will rock the guild to its very freedom.
13/07/2017 Leave a comment
Sailor Moon R: The Movie (Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack)
BD Region: A (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region A Only
DVD Region: 1 (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region 1 Only
Price: $21.39 / £16.34 (Excludes postage)
Episodes: 1x Feature-Length-Film (Blu-ray & DVD)
Plot: Sailor Moon and the Sailor Guardian unite to save Earth from an alien ! When he was still a child Mamoru gave a single rose as thanks to an alien boy who helped him cope with the loss of his parents.
Since then, his long-forgotten friend Fiore has searched across the galaxy for a flower worthy of his gesture. Fiore’s final choice is the beautiful Xenian flower, which has a very dark side – it has the power to fatally drain energy from human life!
Now, Sailor Moon and the Sailor Guardians must go into space to stop that impending destruction and save Mamoru!
10/07/2017 Leave a comment
Chaos Dragon– The Complete Series (Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack)
BD Region: A (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region A Only
DVD Region: 1 (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)
– Boxart states Region 1 Only
Price: $31.23 / £24.03 (Excludes postage)
Episodes: 1 –13 (2 Blu-ray & 2 DVD)
Plot: The island of Nil Kamui is caught between the war of Kouran and Dnatia, two powerful warring countries. When Kouran makes moves to claim the island, there is nothing the people of Nil Kamui can do to stop them.
The guardian dragon of the country, Red Dragon, has gone insane and provides them no help, and even a treaty with Dnatia provides them with little aid. The small island loses all its independence and becomes divided. Amidst the war, royal descendant Ibuki loses his entire family to an attack by Kouran soldiers. Haunted by the tragedy, he denies the throne, thinking that Nil Kamui will be better off without a king.
However, when tensions rise and the rebel army of Nil Kamui attacks Kouran soldiers, Ibuki finds himself bound to the Red Dragon as a child of contract. With this contract, he will have the powers of Red Dragon when he calls upon him. But theres a catch. To use this immense power, he must offer an equivalent exchange the life of someone precious to him. Can Ibuki handle the weight of sacrificing a life in exchange for power? Or is the only way to obtain peace to destroy the Red Dragon?
