UK Anime & Manga Releases - 30/04/2012 to 06/05/2012

Wow, I apologise for not posting this on the weekend, I was having far too much of a lazy weekend....

Anyway, It's that time of the week again where we have a look at the new releases coming to you this week.

Thankfully I was reminded that I needed to post this today as there is one big anime release this week that I shall be buying as soon as I get paid again, as I must admit I am quite a K-ON! fanboy! Along with this there is a mountain of manga for you to sink your teeth in to this week, so enjoy it!

Without further ado, here are the new releases:

ANIME
Monday 30th April
K-ON! Complete First Series (4-Disc)

MANGA
Tuesday 1st May
20th Century Boys - Vol.19
Gantz - Vol.22
Natsume's Book of Friends - Vol.11
Sailor Moon - Vol.5
Wednesday 2nd May
Ai Ore! - Vol.5
Case Closed - Vol.41
Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll - Vol.3
Kimi no Todoke: From Me to You - Vol.12
Oresama Teacher - Vol.6
MM9 (Novel)
Thursday 3rd May
No Longer Human - Vol.3       

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Complete Series Release

UK anime distribution company Manga Entertainment recently tweeted that a 10-disc, full collection of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is due to be released at the end of August this year. The series has already been released as 5 seperate DVD's, containing all 64 episodes, but for those who didn't pick them up (myself included) this looks like a much better purchase.

Another point to mention, also from Manga Entertainment's twitter profile, is that they have not yet obtained the rights to the OVA's of the series, but as soon as they do get the offer then we will FINALLY get to see them on UK shores.

J-Metal Spotlight: Crossfaith

It's weird just how quickly you can become obsessed with a band, and this happened to me in the space of about 10hours yesterday with the band Crossfaith. I was reading the most recent copy of NEO Magazine on my lunch break at work and stumbled upon their interview with the Japanese Hardcore Metal band Crossfaith. I personally hadn't ever heard of them, and a quick look online says they formed in November 2006 and their first album was released in October 2009, so they are relatively new to the scene which may explain this. Whilst reading the article something just cliked in me that said 'you have to listen to this band right now and find out how they sound'. It may of had something to do with the article mentioning that they are influenced by Western Metal bands Killswitch Engage and Atreyu. I had a quick youtube search and found their track Snake Code (Caribbean Death Roulette), a song mentioned in the interview, and was instantly hooked. So much so that I even bought their album The Dream, The Space yesterday evening after only knowing the band for around 8hours.

UK Anime & Manga Releases - 23/04/2012 to 29/04/2012

It's that time of the week again where we have a look at the new releases coming to you this week.

Unfortunately it appears there are no new anime releases this week, but the manga releases should make up for that as there are quite a lot of them. Hopefully there will be a few there to keep you going until next week!

Without further ado here are this weeks new releases:

MANGA
Tuesday 24th April
Bakuman - vol.10
Black Butler - vol.9
Black God - vol.16
Durarara!! - vol.2
Highschool of the Dead - vol.6
Higurashi - When They Cry: Atonement Arc - vol.4
Negima! - vol.34
Rosario + Vampire: Season 2 - vol.8
The Betrayal Knows My Name - vol.3
Tokyo Mew Mew Omnibus - vol.3

Thursday 26th April
Bleach - vol.39
Blue Exorcist - vol.7
Toriko - vol.9

ThatBritOtaku Networking Details Updated

After toying with the idea for a couple of weeks I finally decided to take the plunge today and create a dedicated email address for That Brit Otaku so that I can more easily see the messages i receive from everyone on here, twitter and Google+ as they were starting to take up a LOT of space on my personal email account.

The site maintenance this evening was to transfer the blog from my personal email account to the new email account, and I have also created a Google+ 'fanpage' that is not linked to my personal email address either. This way I can keep things seperate and make it easier for me to connect with people. Also, if the opportunity ever arose, it would make it easier for me to let people guest write on this blog or for me to guest write on other people's blogs.

The new contact details for me (which will have a dedicated page soon) are:

Email: thatbritotaku@gmail.com
Twitter: @ThatBritOtaku
Google+: Profile (the link for this is RIDICULOUSLY long, hence only the word 'profile' lol)

Thank you for your support and continued returns to my blog, I love seeing all the varied people who read my blog from all over the world and hope my new contact details make it easier for you all to speak to me :)