New US anime licenses: The Sky Crawlers, Kaze no Stigma

“My education was interrupted only by my schooling.” – Winston Churchill. One of the big problems with anime in Britain is when a popular series is not streamed over here, but is in the USA. Perhaps the most frustrating recently was Danganronpa, a murder mystery/death game series streamed by Funimation which became a big hit with … Continued

A brand new 5 minute preview of The Sky Crawlers has been posted online for your streaming pleasure. Directed by Mamoru Oshii and animated by Production I.G, this highly anticipated science-fiction movie from the creators of Ghost in the Shell will hit Japanese theaters during August.

Earlier this week, Sony launched their video download service with several anime series, many of them from US distributor Funimation (Afro Samurai, Samurai 7, […]), but one particular that hasn’t even been aired in Japan yet. That is Xam’d: Lost Memories, the latest mecha anime from Studio Bones, makers of Eureka Seven and RahXephon. The … Continued

Running from 27 August to 6 September was the prestigious Venice Film Festival, the oldest film festival in the world. Hayao Miyazaki with his film ‘Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea‘ and Mamoru Oshii with his film ‘The Sky Crawlers‘ were both in the running for the festival’s principal award, the Golden Lion. Although, … Continued

Several impressive new trailers have been released recently and here’s a quick run-down of what to look out for: A new (and much longer) trailer for Mamoru “Ghost in the Shell” Oshii’s Sky Crawlers has been placed on YouTube. The theatrical movie, previously described as a “a philosophical story built around the visceral trials and … Continued