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  • Policy: This page contains large amounts of info on general and shoujo anime & manga. It aims to be more than just a personal page, or a list of links.

    As you have accessed this page I can asume that you are interested in anime and know something about it. Unlike many UK-based fans, I have seen a lot of anime and manga that is not presently commercially available in the UK. My interests do not coincide with the commercial companies release lists. Some of what has been released is crap and many titles that are brilliant have not been released. And quite a few UK releases that I liked a lot have been virtually ignored by the public.

    As you browse through my page and its indexes you should get an idea of what sort of anime and manga interest me. I hope they interest you too.

    I include some reviews on the page. Some anime is brilliant and some is naff, and there is different anime for different tastes. This is the purpose of having review columns. I have attempted a good coverage of shoujo material. I am not trying for an exhaustive listing of general anime; if you are interested in that you can dig out my "Complete UK Anime" review compilations on this website.

    You might wonder what I read or watch when I'm not watching anime: besides mags. and computer manuals, I've been reading Kim Stanley Robinson's BLUE MARS, and I tend to watch the kind of movie shown at the Open University Film Club. (and a few eps. of Babylon 5). I was also one of the "disconcertingly few" people to visit the highbrow Midsummer Arts Exhibition in Milton Keynes.
    Don't forget to check out the A-Z index - it contains links to all the titles for which material is available at this site. There is also (under Info menu) a larger index of off-site material, including nearly all the anime/manga titles I ever heard of.

    [G.Cowie, 10.5.97]