In conjunction with Manga UK, Syfy Uk will screen some iconic anime movies all this month. In a post on their official website, Manga UK posted that the channel would air one of their ‘top science fiction and fantasy anime films every Saturday night’ starting this week.
The full lineup is as follows:
- 7th January – AKIRA
- 14th January – Ninja Scroll
- 21st January – The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- 28th January – Redline
- 4th February – Summer Wars
- 11th February – Wolf Children
The movies will air from 11.10pm every Saturday night. Syfy UK can be found on Sky channel 114 or VirginMedia channel 135.
Anime Nostalgia
That’s six Saturday nights with top notch anime! It’s also kind of sentimental for me. Before it was Syfy UK, I knew the channel as the Sci-Fi Channel. It was one of the first British TV channels to show anime and outside of Pokémon it was the place I learned and fell in love with anime. In fact Akira and Ninja Scroll were some of the first anime movies I ever got to watch. My parents just thought they were cartoons, oblivious to the adult themes and violence.
Make sure to catch even one or use them as an excuse to indoctrinate a friend into the Otaku world! I’d personally recommend Ninja Scroll! Action, violence, ninjas and magic! What more could you ask for?!
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