The UK’s first and only dedicated anime TV channel, Anime Central, appears to be on the verge of closing down. Having aired nothing but Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex…

Another live action adaptation of Death Note is in the works, but this time, it’s a Hollywood-based project. The rights have been snapped up by movie producers Vertigo Entertainment, …

MVM have posted four free preview clips of Gravitation online for your viewing pleasure. The synopsis is as follows:

“Japanese anime goes gay with a fantastic new series which follows …

Yesterday, wide-reaching manga publisher Tokyopop announced their plans to restructure their company, essentially splitting into two seperate entities, one to handle “new media”…

With the dust settling after this weekend’s London Expo, news of the UK anime industry’s exploits has gradually appeared online. In terms of new licenses, there was, unfortunately,…

According to GhibliWiki, Film4 will be airing Hayao “Spirited Away” Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke on June 10th at 11pm as a part of their 100 Films to See Before You Die brand…

ADV Films have hooked up with video-streaming website crunchyroll to offer fans an absolutely free viewing of their (English dubbed) satirical dark comedy Welcome to the NHK, an anime series…

Running over this weekend is the London MCM Expo, featuring most (if not all) of the major UK anime and manga distributors, a number of anime dub voice actors (Mike McFarland (Master Roshi from …

A scene from the sixth episode (“The Mist of Vengeance”) of the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime has provoked angry responses from Arab and Islamic communities, so much so …

In addition to our previous news reports on Funimation’s recent anime licenses, over the last weekend they also announced four further new acquisitions:

Booking is now open for the forthcoming anime season at the BFI Southbank in London. Running from the 20th of June until the 22nd, a diverse selection of the latest anime movies will be screened …

Currently enjoying at least three (soon to be four) new anime acquisitions, US anime distributor FUNimation are working their way through this week by announcing one new license every evening.…

On Friday last week, the latest Wachowski “Matrix trilogy” brothers action movie Speed Racer (based on the 1960s anime series Speed Racer (aka Mach GoGoGo)) opened in theaters …

Rhoda “Voxie” Villegas is giving away (free) copies of her (now in-active) fanzine ‘MAMEzine‘. Along side magazine regulars like (old) news, features and reviews,…

Manga Ent. UK have confirmed two new UK anime licenses.

Three Japanese salary-men were arrested late last week for allegedly uploading  new episodes of anime to the Japanese file-sharing program “Share”. According to Canned Dogs…