The SCI-FI LONDON Film Festival has officially announced the schedule for its annual Anime All Nighter. Taking place at the West End Apollo Cinemas on midnight of Saturday, 3rd May, the line-up…
Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan will be hosting (on August 4 and August 5) a special concert with Studio Ghibli soundtrack composer Joe Hisaishi (including a 200-piece orchestra and 400 chorus…
Earlier today, we updated our UK DVD release schedule to cover the first half of summer 2008. These newly added releases are listed below, but keep in mind, some of them (especially those still …
When it comes to reviewing anime, one of the most frustrating tasks can be screen-capping. Sometimes you’ll remember the cool scenes, jump straight in and snap away. Job done. But with FLCL, it’s…
‘Xcomp’s Yuuenchi’ blog has posted a fascinating (English translated) excerpt from Makoto Shinkai‘s online journal in which it’s revealed that the famous…
It’s well known that the Japanese animation industry farms out a lot of its standard animation tasks to cheap labor in Korea and this often leads to the assumption that all Korean animation…
Seirei no Moribito, a fantasy adventure TV series animated by the acclaimed Production “Ghost in the Shell” IG, has been licensed by Media Blasters for US DVD distribution. The …
An anime TV spin-off from actress Milla Jovovich‘s recent sci-fi/action movie Ultraviolet is set to air in Japan during July of 2008. Animated by Madhouse, the series will be known as “UltraViolet:…
Viz Media has formally announced that it has picked up the first Bleach movie, “Memories of Nobody“, for distribution in the US. It’s now quite likely that this movie, much…
ADV have picked up the shonen action/fantasy with a card-game tie-in, Kiba, for release in North America. The series is 51 episodes long and aired in Japan during 2006. In other news, it seems the…
Rocket Girls has been acquired by Bandai Entertainment for release in North America. The 12 episode TV series from 2007 is, as its name suggests, about a group of high-school girls transformed…
The director’s cut of Highlander: Search for Vengeance will be released in Japan during the summer of 2008. Amongst other things, the movie will feature, for the first time, a Japanese …
It’s been announced that a TV anime adaptation of Blade of the Immortal, a popular supernatural samurai manga that’s been running for many years, is currently underway in Japan …
A new anime TV series based on the 1973 vintage super-sentai classic Casshern is underway in Japan and set to be broadcast during the autumn of 2008 with animation by Madhouse. This will be the third…
According to an entry on the BBFC website, ILC Entertainment (‘ILC Prime’ are known for their low budget UK anime DVD releases) are planning to release the first live action Death…
Tokyopop founder Stuart “DJ Milky” Levy is pushing ahead with his plans to produce live action, English language movies based on a number of his company’s most popular manga…
Earlier in March, we reported on Guinness World Records’ attempt to organise the ‘Largest Gathering of Games Characters’ (people in cosplay, obviously) for the latest …
In news that essentially flys against everything that the US (and by extension, the UK) anime industry has been fighting against for several years now, the video-streaming site Crunchyroll…
The protracted saga of ADV’s status in the UK appears to be at end with the switch over to their distribution partner, Lace Digital Media Sales, having been officially rubber-stamped earlier…
