The video streaming market is an interesting place for anime fans right now. The competition is intense, with the long established Crunchyroll now facing strong competition in the form of Amazon…
Bloomberg have published an article speculating that North American anime distributor Funimation could be (or has been) the subject of competing take-over bids from Universal and Sony:
Both…
Crunchyroll have announced that the following 3 anime series have been added to their streaming catalogue and are available to the United Kingdom:
High School DxD (2012/TNK) Mikagura School…Full UK cinema listings for In This Corner of the World (Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni) have been posted on the film’s website. Screenings will begin on Wednesday, 28th June.…
The live action Blade of the Immortal film opened in Japan last weekend. Hiroaki Samura’s violent samurai manga of the same name began serialization in 1993 and has already inspired an …
Wave Motion Cannon recently published an article titled “Anime Production Issues: A Working Environment that isn’t Improving“, which is a translation of an interview with an …
Having spent January considering my responsibilities at Anime UK News, I have finally made the decision to step-down, effective immediately.
I founded the site in February 2004 and the following…
The MTV Movies Blog has word that (Hollywood actor) Keanu Reeves is currently working on a live action adaptation of the (1997) sci-fi anime TV series Cowboy Bebop, with the intention of playing…
Schoolgirl Milky Crisis isn’t hentai. It’s actually the title of Jonathan Clements‘ forthcoming book, which collects his opinions and anecdotes on the anime and manga …
Earlier in December, UK DVD distributor Pinnacle Vision fell into administration. They were the DVD distributor for, amongst many others, anime publishers Beez and Revelation Films (as well…
In what is fast becoming an annual tradition during the festive month of December, three of anime films from Studio Ghibli will be appearing on UK TV over the coming weeks. Although not nearly as…
The London Expo was held over this past weekend. It is one of the biggest trade events for the UK anime industry and, as a result, is where many of the most exciting news stories are first broken to …
Earlier this year, Revelation Films postponed their entire 2008 release schedule to “concentrate” on their existing releases. This mean’t that, amongst many others, …
Following on from August’s news, Manga Entertainment UK and North America’s Funimation have officially announced an exclusive distribution partnership. This is an agreement…
The anime-orientated video streaming website Crunchyroll has signed new agreements with Japanese officials for the free video streaming/pay-to-download rights of two new anime series. …
MVM Films have circulated four streaming video clips of their soon to be released (13th October) movie The Adolescence of Utena (a.k.a Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie), a romantic drama …
The live action Death Note 2: The Last Name will be released on UK DVD on the 13th of October (from 4 Digital Asia) and to help promote the film, a trailer been published online for your previewing …
After many months of uncertainty, ADV Films have finally confirmed a new anime license, which, in turn, suggests their recent struggles might finally be behind them.
The formally huge anime …
Earlier in September, UK newspaper The Guardian published an article profiling the experimental, adult-side of the reowned anime/manga creator Osamu Tezuka. Imaginatively titled “…
The National Media Museum of Bradford (West Yorkshire) will be hosting a sequence of four screenings of Howl’s Moving Castle, director Hayao Miyazaki’s (family friendly) fantasy anime from…
