It’s that time of year again; it’s cold, we’re suffering from the various bugs going round, public transport is manic, and yet we somehow have to fit in shopping for that magical…
Koji Yamamura is one of Japan’s finest animators, who has even been nominated for an Oscar for best short animation with Mt. Head. He creates his animations mostly on his own, without a huge…
Rejoice fellow anime fans! Although we haven’t seen much from them in recent anime seasons, Anime On Demand is back with six simulcasts for the fall anime season and due to the lack of recent…
The Autumn season has hit us and with over 30 titles being broadcasted in Japan, there is quite a lot to take in. Fortunately AUKN is here to provide an overview of some of the titles on offer and some…
When Chaos reported on a Kickstarter project for an anime named Kick-Heart, a 10 minute anime short which is being helmed by director Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, The Tatami Galaxy) and backed by …
TL; DR version: – Mr Itoh wants to bring the Hatsune Miku concert to the UK, but there are no plans for it as of now due to cost constraints. – An English version of Hatsune Miku is in development…
During a sunny Saturday at Alcon, I was enjoying the entertainment that was offered there, including the varied panels that went on throughout the day. One panel that I went to in the afternoon …
There are plenty of new manga releases to look forward to in the next few months, as well as re-releases of some classics. Here is a guide to what is coming out in the next three months.
September…
Still getting used to the London tube and arriving forty minutes early for an interview with the Japanese director (Kazuya Murata) and producer (Masahiko Minami) of Full Metal Alchemist: The…
Welcome, dear reader, to the Anime UK News 2012 Summer Anime Season Preview Guide. In this article, the staff of AUKN will analyse the titles in the Summer Season Previews that have already been…
This summer there is plenty of manga to get stuck into. New series are coming out, old series are ending, and there are some interesting returns to keep an eye out for.
June
Those who follow the regular…
Welcome to the third and final part of the Summer Anime Preview for 2012 where Anime UK News brings you the last set of shows that will be aired over the summer. In this part we have more mecha than usual…
Welcome to the second part of the Anime UK News Summer Anime Preview for 2012.
While the first part of our Summer Preview contained an interesting mix of ecchi, medieval fantasy, and Japanese classical…
The BFI Southbank is no stranger to anime; despite having run Japanese animation films for several years now, it’s always a delight to view them on the big screen, especially titles that…
There have been some awesome looking anime movie releases in the past few years like Summer Wars and Redline. Welcome To The Space Show certainly is another one of those films that really push the…
So far a number of the spring season titles have been rather excellent, what with bizarre relationship comedies like Mysterious Girlfriend X and excellent character drama in The Kids on the Slope…
In recent years, we have seen an expansion of MCM Expo’s in the UK. Last year we had the newly opened Manchester Comic Con and this year, we have the first Birmingham Comic Con. This benefited me …
When Kodansha Comics announced in 2010 that they would be taking over several of the titles already licensed to Del Rey in the US – and introducing many new series in 2011 – the news elicited…
On March 20th 2012 the world of anime lost another one of its leading lights. The industry has lost several big names in recent years: Osamu Dezaki last year and Satoshi Kon the year before that. …
If you go to DeviantArt you might just come across an Original English Language manga called Demon Candy: Parallel, created by a seemingly mysterious individual known only as “Lord …
