With his latest film The World of Kanako premiering at this year's BFI London Film Festival, we sat down with Confessions director Tetsuya Nakashima for a conversation about his career to date.

He may not be an expert Rinshan Kaihou user, and he barely knows his tenpai from his senpai or his tsumo from his sumo, but Andy nonetheless foists himself upon the world of sexy anime girls playing mahjong. And who is this "Ron" fella, anyway?

Back in October during Scotland Loves Anime, we caught up with the director Mizuho Nishikubo - now, on the cusp of the home video release of his film Giovanni's Island, you can read our chat with him.

Another Ultimate Edition from Anime Limited is almost upon us, and we take this premium edition of Giovanni's Island fresh from our doorstep to take a look at its innards.

The only crisis our copy of this Kickstarter-funded Blu-ray release suffered was the Christmas post, but now we can take a look at what the basic edition of Animeigo's Blu-ray remaster of this classic OVA has to offer.

The year is over, so what were our highlights and lowlights of 2014? Read on to find out all the nominees and winners for this year, including the champion of your very own Reader's Choice Award!

A new year is almost upon us, and with it a stack of new anime to greet us as our introduction to 2015. What series should you be looking out for to wave you into the door of another year?

This UK release of Yasuhiro Yoshiura's latest theatrical film promises to turn your world upside down... can its Kickstarter-funded Ultimate Edition succeed in doing just that?

Yosuke Fujita's previous feature Fine, Totally Fine has become something of a cult hit and is one of the most popular Japanese comedies currently available in the UK. However, it's been more than six years since the film was first released so with his long awaited follow-up Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats premiering at Raindance Independent Film Festival we caught up with him to find out just what he's been up to in the meantime.

Viva the home video release of Space Dandy! We check out every aspect of this Collector's Edition of the first season of Shinichiro Watanabe's hot, visually stunning sci-fi comedy.

We report on a selection of Japanese films screened at a special event in the historic city of York, organised by the Aesthetica Short Film Festival.

With both her debut student film My Baby and her first short Lust of Angels included in the Third Window Films New Directors From Japan Box Set, we sat down with promising new filmmaker Nagisa Isogai to talk a little about her career so far prior to the premier of Lust of Angels at the 2014 Raindance Film Festival

It might sound like some kind of toilet cleaning product, but hopefully this second Persona 4 fighting game isn't going to be something you'll want to flush away - we give it the once-over.

This latest game in the Project DIVA series is the story of a dystopian future where Shadow Miku impales every Vocaloid she sees. At least, it is when Andy gets his hands on the game.

What's hot in the world of anime merchandise this week?

Tales of series producer Hideo Baba has become almost a permanent fixture at the MCM London Comic Con in recent years, and this October we caught up with him to talk about the latest titles in the series, Tales of Hearts R for the PlayStation Vita and Tales of Zestiria for the PlayStation 3.

This much-loved strategy RPG for the PlayStation 3 makes a surprise leap to the PC - is SEGA's PC port, available on Steam, a Beetle-tastic experience?

Do we have any spooky merchandise for you in this Halloween anime merchandise round-up?

Are you enjoying the Time of Eve? Well, you should be, and now everybody can with this edition of the film on Blu-ray available on general sale online.

HAL may not have the sentient AI from 2001: A Space Odyssey in it, but it does have a giraffe. We like giraffes.