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1 week ago | animeuknews.net | Ian Wolf

The new series from Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima continues to build on the groundwork established in its first volume, creating a fantasy manga that should become increasingly enjoyable. The students of Class F in Dead Rock, the elite school on level 666 of the demon world, are beginning to settle down. Well, as much as you can settle down when you have already wiped out another class and one of the students has an overwhelming desire to kill the principal, who claims to be God.

2 weeks ago | animeuknews.net | Ian Wolf

Given that we recently published an article about gender non-conforming characters for Pride Month, it seems fitting that one title that has just come out has two leads that fit this mould. On and Off follows the lives of two 27-year-old office workers, Sotaro Amata and Akira Hanku. At work, Sotaro is a popular guy and the subject of office talk about how cute he is, while Akira is stern with others around her, including Sotaro, and something of a loner.

3 weeks ago | animeuknews.net | Ian Wolf

If you are at all familiar with the name Kohta Hirano, it’s most likely as the creator of Hellsing, a manga that very much feels like a mixture of every single B-movie theme you can think of, featuring as it does vampires, buxom women and Nazis (including a Nazi catboy dressed as a Hitler Youth). Hirano’s follow-up series, Drifters, features many of the same elements, albeit in an isekai setting.

3 weeks ago | animeuknews.net | Ian Wolf

On Anime UK News, we’re celebrating the anime and manga characters that break gender norms, the ones who do not conform to the binary, the ones who celebrate who they are and make us love them, regardless of how they choose to identify. Gender? We Hardly Know Her!DarkstormOne of my first exposures to gender non-conforming characters was Haruka Tenoh, aka Sailor Uranus.

1 month ago | animeuknews.net | Ian Wolf

In this edition we see a return to the more comic side of The Fable, but also the return of old enemies. Having survived an attempt on his life by the Taihei Detective Agency and getting a promise from the wheelchair-bound Hina that she will learn to walk again in six months’ time, the hitman known as The Fable (aka Akira Sato) can get back to something at least resembling a normal life. He continues his work at the Octopus Design Company, where things are busy.