Continuing our obsession with running Ghost in the Shell related competitions, here we can offer you one of three copies of Mamoru Oshii’s much anticipated follow-up to his 1995 original…
“Am I alive or dead?” Kurono wonders as he and his new friends stumble through the streets of late night Tokyo, confused and upset by the previous hours of violent onslaught. Having…
Equal parts ideological science fiction and heartfelt drama, this tight third volume of Planetes continues to forge ahead with its touching ambition of human struggle in the not so familiar …
Three men were arrested in Japan on Tuesday under suspiscion of illegally scanning, uploading and sharing manga (“Slam Dunk,” by Takehiko Inoue is an example of what they were posting)…
It has recently emerged that Radiohead’s song “Paranoid Android” will be the “main theme” of Ergo Proxy (not the opening or ending song, but rather heavily …
Animetion are reporting that Maile Flanagan, the English dub voice actress of Naruto (from the anime series Naruto), will be attending May’s London Expo event (May 27th – 28th).…
ADV UK have sent us over a couple of press releases, one talking about February’s “J-Pop Go!” night (a popular London-based feast of Japanese music) which promises to feature…
On February the 28th, Sky TV will restructure it’s electronic program guide (EPG)- resulting in many channels changing numbers and categories being added, modified or removed. Of particular…
Production I.G. have posted English language details of their newly announced “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Individual Eleven” OVA.
“Unlike The Laughing Man,…
Despite being nominated for three awards at the 33rd annual Annie Awards, Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle walked away from the ceremony empty handed. The awards were largely…
The Production I.G website recently published a three part (English translated) discussion with the major creative forces behind 2004’s period drama Otogi Zoshi, taking a retrospective…
For those of you who are either fans of good art or are simply interested sampling our unique community, we have just posted the first few pages of Jim Tzu’s Anime UK News forum comic strip…
It’s taken us the good part of a month to complete, but our revamped web links section (aptly dubbed See-Saw) is now officially open. Amongst the expected set of web links and categories …
Anime-On-Line have posted ADV UK release dates reaching as far forward as September 2006 and several new series will be released during this time.New ADV UK release datesArea 88 – September…
Earlier this week, we reported that ITV1’s The South Bank Show had produced a documentary taking an introductionary look at the growing influence of anime and manga in Western culture,…
American Idol, the US version of the UK’s infamous talent show “Pop Idol”, recently had a contestent perform a particularly strange choice of song- none other than “Jigglypuff’s…
Manga UK have relaunched their official Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence website to bring it in line with the movie’s February 27th UK DVD release.…
Animetion have let us know that Cromartie High School and My House are amongst the latest manga to live action movie adaptations to be hitting the UK thanks to a swift cinema tour of the country organised…
All of February’s UK anime DVD releases are listed below. Of course, if you are excited about some of these releases, feel free to drop by our community forums and let us know what you think!…
Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle has succeeded in being nominated for an Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards. It will be up against The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Corpse…
