"Director: Hiroyuki Kitakubo"

• Roujin Z | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Created by some of the most famous names in anime, Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Perfect Blue), Hiroyuki Kitakubo (Blood The Last Vampire) and written by Kitsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA).An elderly invalid is volunteered for a bizarre science experiment. He is given a robotic bed linked directly to his brainwaves, allowing instant gratification. This seems like a wonderful deal, until this seemingly harmless bed goes out of control and transforms into an unstoppable robot.

• Blood - The Last Vampire | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £6.46   |  Saving you £10.53 (163.00%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Blood the Last Vampire brings a moody atmospheric quality all of its own to the Japanese animated film tradition. In a few short enigmatic scenes, we learn of the young girl Saya who is working for nameless government agencies and is sent, after one of her killings, to pose as a new pupil at an American school on an air force base. The Vietnam War is underway, but this does not concern her--she is involved with a far older war. All we ever find out is that she is not quite human, and that two of her schoolmates (and a whore in the mean streets adjacent to the base) are something yet again. Much of what ensues--gore and metamorphosis and nightmare chases--is all the more confusing for being seen through the eyes of a schoolteacher who never learns very much. This is a dreamlike film which does not have to make entirely literal sense, far more so than the creator's more famous Ghost in the Shell. It is also a memorable stage in the development of digitised animation. --Roz Kaveny

• Roujin Z | Blu Ray | (11/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Created by some of the most famous names in anime, Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Perfect Blue), Hiroyuki Kitakubo (Blood The Last Vampire) and written by Kitsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA).An elderly invalid is volunteered for a bizarre science experiment. He is given a robotic bed linked directly to his brainwaves, allowing instant gratification. This seems like a wonderful deal, until this seemingly harmless bed goes out of control and transforms into an unstoppable robot.

• Blood - The Last Vampire | Blu Ray | (02/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The first fully digitally animated anime feature to come out of Japan Blood: The Last Vampire is one of Manga's best-selling titles of all time. Featuring brilliant character designs top-notch animation and a stunning musical score Blood: The Last Vampire is a breakthrough in digital filmmaking taking anime to a whole new level. At the Yokota Air Force base in Japan a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam War. But a greater threat exists within the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatches a mysterious young woman to destroy them... she is the last remaining original.

• Plastic Little Magic / Black Magic M66 | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Plastic Little: When her father tries to sabotage the army's newest project Elysse becomes a target for the military police. Luckily for her she runs into or or is run over by Tita a street-wise teenager who decides to help out. Tita is a Pet Shop Hunter dedicated to collecting rare creatures for other planets. But Elysse is the rarest of all for she is the only one who knows the password to the ultimate weapon. The deadly game of cat and mouse begins but the cats are armed and the mice are made out of stainless steel... Black Magic M-66: From the creator of Appleseed and Dominion Masamune Shirow's feature Black Magic M-66 is based on the story 'Booby-Trap' from the original Manga Black Magic. Sybel a free-lance video journalist becomes involved in a dangerous military fiasco when two top-secret military androids are lost in an accident. The surviving M-66 android battles a special forces commando team led by Colonel Arthur. The Deadly M-66 unit escapes with a mission to eliminate ferris the grandfather of its creator. It's a race agianst time...

• Manga Essentials Vol.2 | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Three must have Manga classics at one essential price! Urotsukidoji - Legend of the Overfiend & Legend of the Demon Womb - The original anime ""video nasty"". A sickening tale of horrendous violence uncontrollable lusts and supernatural forces beyond the imagination. Perfect Blue is a sexually charged Hitchcockian murder mystery. An anime classic universally praised. Blood the Last Vampire - From the creators of Ghost In The Shell 1 and 2 and Kill Bill. Soon to be made into a live action feature film by Billy Kong (Hero Fearless Crouching Tiger House of Flying Daggers) and Pathe Films (In Theatres Q1 2008).