London fire is a major set back for the UK anime industry

Following up last week’s news of the huge fire at a London DVD manufacturer that destroyed a lot of MVM’s newest releases, EyeOnAnime are now reporting to have been told that the massive blaze has temporarily “killed 90% of the UK anime scene”, causing wide spread DVD delays from all all the major UK anime companies (including Manga Ent.’s Stand Alone Complex #4 faulty disc replacements).

ADV, MVM and Manga Ent. were all effected by this fire and in a particularly unfortunate spate of bad luck, a lot of UK DVD masters were lost too- meaning that in the worst case scenario, several UK anime titles (currently unnamed) may even cease to be re-produced.