A Kickstarter campaign for Shenmue 3 has been launched to bring to life the dreams of millions of gamers.
The goal for the game is $2 million and it reached $1 million in just a few hours, the fastest…
Earlier today the website Japan Underground launched a competition giving people the chance to see the J-pop boy band Generations from Exile Tribe in London this Saturday. Here are the details:…
Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival
The organisers behind the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival have announced some of their programme for this year’s festival and the selections…
Last week, AUKN’s Ian Wolf reported that American anime distributor AnimEigo had launched a Kickstarter campaign for a release of Otaku no Video and today, AnimeEigo has seen its Kickstarter…
Kiminori Wakasugi’s manga Minna! Esper Dayo! (All Esper Dayo!) has a movie in the works which is due for release on September 04th. To whet the collective appetite of the manga’s fans, a teaser …
A trailer for the upcoming Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie has been released on the GiTS channel and shows some of the action that audiences will see when the film is released in June.
Synopsis
The…
The Edinburgh International Film Festival takes place from June 17th to the 28th and yesterday it launched its programme revealing the films that will be playing over the course of the event. …
A trailer for the live-action movie adaptation of Corpse Party has been released by 5pb.
The Corpse Party movie is based on the famous horror game franchise which has spawned manga and anime adaptations.…
Long time anime fans will have heard of Touhou and probably know just how much of a sprawling franchise it is with legions of fans making music, art, and games dedicated to the mystical witches, …
Third Window Films released the Japanese film Be My Baby today, May 25th, on DVD. For those who may not know, this film is a potent black comedy based on a stage play. It is all about a disastrous house…
The live-action Tokyo Tribe film will be screened at the following cinemas from today:
22 & 23 May 2015, LONDON, RITZY BRIXTON
22-May-15 – 29th-May-15, DERBY, QUAD
29-May-15, SHEFFIELD,…
A teaser trailer has been released on the official site for the live-action adaptation of the manga Bakuman. Viewers can see the actors Takeru Satoh and Ryunosuke Kamiki play Moritaka Mashiro…
A new Cyborg 009 anime is in production to celebrate 50 years since Shotaro Ishinomori first created the manga.
The original manga was launched in 1964 and became massively popular but remained…
The Dreamcast RPG Grandia II is getting a HD port onto the PC via Steam. Publisher GungHo Online Entertainment stated that it will be bringing an HD version of Grandia II to PC following a survey …
The Kickstarter campaign for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (reported yesterday afternoon) has beaten its goal of $500,000 in under a day.
At the time of writing, 15,575 backers have pledged…
Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi has launched a Kickstarter campaign calling on people to help finance a 2.5-D action-adventure game called Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Koji Igarashi…
More and more Japanese games are getting released on PC in the west. In recent years we have had some Nihon Falcom games like the Ys series released on Good Old Games and Steam has seen a surge in visual…
Details have been released about the movie adaptation of Reiko Shimizu’s sci-fi manga Himitsu – The Top Secret.
The manga is set in the late 21st century. A brain scanner is introduced at…
The staff behind Digimon Adventure tri., one of the big Spring 2015 TV anime series, has finally revealed more details about the show and it turns out that it won’t be a spring 2015 title at all. In…
A sequel to the fantasy anime Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis has been announced today by the staff of the series who were attending an orchestra event.
The first series proved to be a rip-roaring …
