99 souls and a witch, in that order, or everything falls apart and you have to start again! Those are the rules for making a Death Scythe in the hot new anime Soul Eater from the acclaimed Studio Bones. And we´ve got details in this Mangazzette just for you...

No releases from Manga Entertainment this week, as we gear up for our big push on next week's Soul Eater. So in the meantime, here's a couple of things going p.n. around the country that might interest the Japanophile in us all...

We've gone ninja mad this week with two Naruto offerings - an unleashed season eight and, well, if you want to split hairs, you call it the beginning of season ten. Yes, we finally get to the Shippuden episodes!

We've got two couples of Ponyo to send to two competition lucky winnowers this week, as well as details of Manga Entertainment's latest ghost-hunting exploits in the latest Bleach. It's June already? How did that happen…?

Arguably our biggest release of the year: in shops at last after a whirlwind tour of cinemas all over the country, the acclaimed sci-fi movie The Sky Crawlers. And it’s in shops now in both Blu-Ray and DVD versions. Also, with summer on the horizon, we offer free (yes, free!) copies of the Studio Ghibli masterpiece Ponyo, all for you.

This week we’ve got news on several big events at the upcoming MCM Expo in London, as well as the announcement of a Samuel L. Jackson’s big anime break and things heat up for Dante’s Inferno.

This week, we’ve got heavenly customer support (well, of a fictional nature), dogfights in Derby and new worlds in Newcastle, plus our entirely arbitrary, self-referential tip for this year’s Eurovision.

We’ve got four discs of fulsome fun in the complete Ouran High School Club, plus details of screenings at opposite ends of England. Spend mid-May with Manga!

It’s a volcano of action; it’s a boiling glacier of goodness. It’s Magma Entertainment. But if you’re bored with watching a lava lamp, have we got cinema fun for you? You bet your ash!

At last the wait is over. UK fans finally get to buy the first of the Evangelion movie remakes, complete with remastered sound, CG inserts and all-new footage. And that’s before we get to the tweaks in character. It’s an all-new apocalypse, and at HMV stores it comes with a bonus disc!