THE MUST-SEE ANIME SERIES OF 2009. Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects, who's bored out of his mind. One day he finds the Death Note: a notebook from the realm of the Death Gods, with the power to kill people in any way he desires. With the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create his perfect world, without crime or criminals. However, when criminals start dropping dead one by one, the authorites send the legendary detective L to track down the killer, and a battle of wits, find out more...

Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal-every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that she, the only ordinary Madrigal, might just b find out more...

 

 

Scrat’s pursuit of the nirvana acorn causes yet another continental cataclysm which plunges our three bestest buddies into yet another perilo find out more...

More Miyazaki magic (the creator of Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and The Castle In The Sky) at last available for us Brits to indulge in. Once again, the world he creates is infused with a realism that borders on the photographic in its detail that makes the fantastical elements of the story strangely believable. Kiki is a young witch who has moved from the country to a seaside town as part of her supernatural work experience. She starts the eponymous delivery service and thus begins her edu find out more...

A beautiful elaboration of a Senegalese folk tale; Kirikou summons himself from his mother's womb, only 10 cms tall, but walking, talking, questioning and quickly setting out on a quest to defeat the wicked sorceress who has cursed his people. Kirikou is a beautifully rendered tale with African art as its benchmark and using a flat two-dimensional look. A delight for the children and one that us older, saggier ones can enjoy as well. find out more...

DJ Walters has a particularly active imagination, he is convinced that his haggard and crabby neighbour Horace Nebbercracker, the terroriser of all the neighbourhood kids, is responsible for Mrs Nebbercracker's mysterious disappearance. Any toy that touches Nebbercracker's property promptly disappears, swallowed up by the cavernous house in which Horace lives, DJ has seen it with his own eyes! Monster House is a great CGI children's adventure, but be warned….it genuinely is pretty scary. find out more...

A dreamworks re-interpretation of the Sinbad legend sees our smart mouthed lethario, a drooling hound and a handy princess on an adventure to save his best friend from the Goddess of Chaos. A slick and pacey animated adventure, even if the original plethora of gods and godesses has been reinvented. find out more...

 

From celebrated French animator, Michel Ocelot (Kirikou, Azur and Asmar). Tales of the Night is set in a little cinema where three storytellers meet every night to act out various tales set in forests and c find out more...

Due to a series of unfortunate mishaps Victor finds himself wed to a corpse and whisked away to the land of the dead while his live and kicking bride-to-be mourns her unexpected loss. From the same geniuses that brought us ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas', the Corpse Bright is a delightfully imaginative slice of slightly dark, but ultimately sweet natured and funny stop-motion animation. find out more...