Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time (UK) - REGION LOCKED

Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time (UK)

Region: B (Confirmed NOT Playable in the USA)

Price: £9.99 (Excludes Postage)

Episodes: 1 Feature Length Episode (60 Minutes)

Special Features: Original Japanese Version
Re-cap of Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime
Trailer
2D & Stereoscopic 3D

Plot: After falling through a time-slip, Yusei Fudo (who has just had his powerful card stolen by a mysterious stranger) meets with Judai Yuki and Yugi Muto, who agree to help Yusei defeat the evil Paradox, who is planning to destroy Pegasus before he can invent Duel Monsters.

Angel Beats - Complete Collection - REGION LOCKED

Angel Beats - Complete Collection

Region: A (Not playable in the UK)
-- Box states Region A Only

Price: $38.99 / £23.73 (Excludes Postage)

Episodes: 1 - 13 + OVA (2 Disc Set)

Plot: It sucks being dead. Sucks even more to be trapped in a surreal afterlife where you're caught between the living and the dead-where a mysterious, violent Angel is trying to pull you over to...somewhere.

What do you do? Well, if you're this group of rough-and-tumble teens, you grab every weapon you can get your hands on and give Heaven hell!

High-caliber action and locked-and-loaded comedy meet on a rock and roll battleground in Angel Beats!

Gungrave - Complete Series (Classic) - REGION LOCKED

Gungrave - The Complete Series

Region: A (Not playable in the UK)
-- Box Art states Region A Only

Price: $27.99 / £17.04 (Excludes Postage)

Episodes: 1 - 26 (3 Disc Set)

Plot: For Brandon Heat, death doesn't matter. Driven by his need for revenge, he returns from beyond the grave to cripple Milleneon, the huge mafia organization that uses undead monsters as its enforcers. His ultimate goal will be to destroy Harry MacDowel, the leader of Milleneon and, at one time, Brandon's best friend...

New Anime Blu-ray UK Release (25/7/11)

This week see's the world's first English Release of "Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time" in the UK and it is being brought to us in the UK by Manga Entertainment UK.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time is the film that celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading card game & brings all 3 Main Characters from past Yu-Gi-Oh! TV Series into 1 feature length film - which results in 1 final duel to save the world (and more).

The English release has been dubbed by 4Kids Entertainment, which have previously done all other Yu-Gi-Oh! Movies & TV Series - so all original voice actors should still be here.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time Blu-ray features 3 (if not 4) Different versions of the film, as this Blu-ray includes the FULL stereoscopic 3D Version (which requries a 3DTV, 3D Glasses & a 3D Compatible Blu-ray player) - but it also includes the standard 2D Version. Not only that it includes the original Japanese Version & the English Extended Version - which had an additional 10 minutes of animation added to the original film.

The Film may only be short (at 1 Hour) but it can be watched several times over just to see all the different versions. But it is certain that this film will mainly appeal to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Fans, such as myself.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Bondes Beyond Time -> £9.99 (AMAZON UK / HMV UK / PLAY UK)

Plot: After falling through a time-slip, Yusei Fudo (who has just had his powerful card stolen by a mysterious stranger) meets with Judai Yuki and Yugi Muto, who agree to help Yusei defeat the evil Paradox, who is planning to destroy Pegasus before he can invent Duel Monsters.

For the first time ever, all three Yu Gi Oh heroes are united for their first adventure together. Comes with an exclusive limited edition Super Rare "Malefic Red-Eyes B. Dragon" Yu Gi Oh collectable trading card.

K-ON! - Volume 2 - REGION LOCKED

K-ON! - Volume 2

Region: A (Confirmed NOT Playable in the UK)

Price: £15.23 (Excludes Postage)

Episodes: 5 - 8

Plot: As the Light Music Club rehearses for their performance at the school festival, they realize that they are not officially registered as a club.

They need to quickly find a faculty advisor but that's not something that a little blackmail can't fix.

As their new club advisor, Miss Yamanaka coaches Yui to become the frontman of the band but pushes her to the point of losing her voice. Mio is forced to be the lead vocalist but can she overcome her stage fright? Later, the Light Music Club celebrates Christmas with a party and gift exchange and soon another school year begins.

If they want the Light Music Club to live on even after they graduate, they're going to have to recruit new members and that means another performance at the freshman reception!

LoveFilm Competition - The Winners!

So the LoveFilm competition has come to an end and i thank everyone on Twitter (and some here on this blog) that entered, however out of the people who entered only 2 can win, so congratulations to:

@ScissorFist

@DKRjeremy

If you are already a member of LoveFilm (or can not join up) then please feel free to pass the code onto someone else.

Most Competitions will appear on here & Twitter, so be sure to follow me (@Emo185) on Twitter.

New Anime Blu-ray UK Release (18/7/11)

After a week break of releasing awesome Anime titles, Manga Entertainment UK is back in full force with another awesome Blu-ray release and this time its Aniplex's and Studio Bone's"Xam'D - Lost Memories".

As you may have noticed the packaging design is extremely similar to that of the USA version released a few months back - and Manga Entertainment UK will be releasing it in the same format, i.e. 2 Boxsets, both containing 2 Discs with 13 Episodes - making a total of 26 Episodes over 2 Blu-ray boxsets, known as Collection 1 and Collection 2.

Well This week its only Collection 1 that is getting released, Collection 2 should be released in a few months time and like all of Manga Entertainment's Release's you will also be able to buy it on DVD as well as Blu-ray.

XAM'D - Lost Memories: Collection 1 -> £25.99 (AMAZON UK / HMV UK / PLAY UK)

Plot: Enter Sentan, a lush, tranquil island encased in war between the military and those with Hiruko, known as X'amd. On one of these warlike days, Akiyuki Takehara heads off to school and gets caught in a raid by the creatures. Through a series of events he is transformed into a X'amd, and with the help of a Tessikan woman Nakiami along with his highschool friend Haru, Akiyuki is forced to learn to live with the Hiruko or faces the danger of losing his self-control and turn to stone.

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Casshern Sins Part 2 was also scheduled for release on Blu-ray today, however only the DVD Version of it has been made available, this has led me to believe that Manga Entertainment UK have decided not to release Part 2 on Blu-ray due to the high production costs of Blu-ray media, as well as poor sales of the previous volume - this is similar to what happened to the rest of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Blu-rays.

I Personally dislike this idea, as i prefer to have the complete collection on 1 format (or both if its a combi-pack) - plus watching it in HD first, then SD (Standard Definition) takes some of the experience away - but the moral is, if you want more Anime on Blu-ray from Manga Entertainment (or even continuing series on Blu-ray) then you must purchase the Blu-ray itself as soon as possible, espically if its a title you want.