Animax on the way to a world-wide rollout?

For a while now, Sony have been running the anime streaming service Animax, which lets anime fans in the United Kingdom enjoy legal streaming of both new and catalogue anime titles, including Bleach, Mardock Scramble and Terror in Resonance. For a while now, the Animax service has been able to be viewed on PCs via their website, as well as an … Continued

Yesterday, the final episode of Tokyo Ghoul, the 12-episode anime adaptation from Pierrot and Academy Award-nominated director Shuhei Morita, aired in Japan. The series, which is based on a fantasy-horror manga by Sui Ishida, followed Ken Kaneki, who finds himself being attacked by a “ghoul”, a human-like creature with a hunger for human flesh. After an accident leaves … Continued

In recent years, the Japanese animation studio Kyoto Animation has made a name for itself with light-hearted series’ such as K-ON! and Tamako Market, which is why some people were surprised when they revealed plans to adapt Nagomu Torii’s supernatural action series Beyond the Boundary (Kyoukai no Kanata) into a 12 episode anime, which aired between October and December of … Continued

Since Animax launched their on-demand web and PS3 services in the United Kingdom, they have boasted a catalogue of simulcasts and older titles associated with Viz Media’s European arm, such as Bleach and Nisekoi. Today, the streaming service announced some new changes to their service which seems them moving away from being exclusively tied to Viz Media, which they … Continued

Last week, like any that bring a close to a season, was cruel on anime fans as we had to watch series’ that we had religiously followed for three months (and sometimes more) all conclude within the space of seven days. Fortunately though, for every dark day there is one of piercing light – the … Continued