Neo 040

Picked up the January edition of Neo magazine in town today, Neo is England's anime magazine for those who don't know (who am I talking to?).

It came with a free promo ADV DVD which has episodes 1 of Pumpkin Scissors and Karau Phantom Memory as well as Le Chevalier D'Eon episode 2.

This months features:
Neo Awards
Anime Expose - Clannad
Manga Snapshot - Rose Mystery
Expo Report - Octobers London MCM Expo
Super-Hiro - Guide to Hiro from Heroes
Interview - GO!GO!7188
An Anime Christmas
Otaku Gift Guide
Poison Candy - New serialisation from Tokyopop by David Hine and Hans Steinbach

Looking at the UK release schedule..
The only new anime being coming out here is School Rumble, School Rumble Starter and the first DVD will be out on the 21st of January. The Naruto movie will also be out on Boxing Day.
With new Manga we have Megaman, Imadoki, GATCHA GACHA, Phantom, Samurai Girl:Real Bout High School, Suki and Zatch Bell! Apart from that there is also more Death Note, Full Moon, Naruto and Bleach. It's pretty funny to look at all this manga because Waterstones have had most of these for a while and I bought volumes 4, 5 and 6 of Full Moon back in August from the Forbidden Planet.

Bleach 1:1 is still at number 1 in the anime charts and the manga is the same as always Fruits Basket, Naruto and Death Note.

When I opened it in the queue at Gamestation I was surprised to see a picture of Ryou from Clannad in it, given the fact Neo deals more with licensed titles but of course if anything from this season would be picked for Anime Expose (What's hot in the land of the rising sun) it would be Clannad. The text is just a basic explanation of what Clannad is and a quick summary of what is going on within it.

Not to sure of what to think of this new manga in it (there's only 6 pages so far) but I think it will be very interesting if they keep on publishing it in Neo. I'm definitely interested. So far it reminded me a bit of Elfen Lied (which I must finish reading).

Reviews:
Ah! My Goddess
Moon Phase
Mushi-shi
Basilisk
Utawarerumono
Speed Grapher
Ergo Proxy
Shadow Skill
Guyver
Tekkaman Blade
Human Crossing
Bright Future
Dream Cruise
The Forgotten
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
The Wayward Cloud
War Angels
In Dream World
Bride of the Water God
Kekkaishi
DEATH NOTE (Editor's Choice)
Mario & Sonic at the Olympics
Mass Effect (NEO Gold Award)
Virtua Fighter 5
Ace Combat 6
Avatar the Burning Earth

If you live in the UK and are an anime fan then it's pretty obvious what you need to do - go out and buy it.