Features

Interview with Shouji Gatou

During the MCM Comic-con Event back on the 25th - 27th of May, Anime Limited brought over their Anime Guest of Honour, Shouji Gatou to talk about and promote Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory - the latest series in the franchise after 13 years. Shouji Gatou is known for writing the original novels for Full Metal Panic!, Amagi Brilliant Park, and for working on the screenplay for Hyouka, amongst others. We get the chance to sit down and have a chat with Gatou-san around his works.

Arbalest • 18th June 2018

Features

Our Favourite Classic Anime

Join the writers at Anime UK News as they look back to the classic titles that first inspired them to investigate anime and ask, ‘What makes an anime a classic? Does it have to have stood the test of time?’

AUKN Staff • 17th May 2018

Features

The Beginner’s Guide to the Fate Franchise

The Fate franchise has produced over 12 years of anime material, but with over 10 different series and movies, where does a newcomer even begin? Anime UK News provides a beginner's guide to the mega-franchise, to help you start on your Fate journey.

darkstorm • 8th May 2018

Features

Spring Season 2018 – the Anime UK News Team Take a First Look

So many big titles are back with tempting new material. If we thought the Winter Season was stuffed with delicious must-sees, then look at the mouth-watering line-up: My Hero Academia Season …

AUKN Staff • 23rd April 2018

Features

Winter Season Streaming 2018

Winter Streaming Season 2018 is over. Join our writers at Anime UK News as they choose their top favourite series from a packed season. Agree? Disagree? Which were your favourites?

AUKN Staff • 9th April 2018

Features

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin – Interview

From the Anime UK News vault, we present an interview with Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin producer Osamu Taniguchi and mechanical designer Mika Akitaka from MCM Comic Con in May 2016!

Josh A. Stevens • 19th March 2018

Features

Crunchyroll’s Manga Service is Still Failing

Crunchyroll have been in the news lately for both removing a lot of content and adding in some new series, but despite this the service is still struggling. We take a look at the problems plaguing the manga arm of the anime industry's biggest streaming platform.

Demelza • 2nd March 2018

Features

Glasgow Film Festival 2018 Starts on Wednesday

The Glasgow Film Festival (February 21st – March 04th) has a selection of Japanese films and titles with Japan as a location. The event kicks off with Wes Anderson’s highly-anticipated …

genkinahito • 19th February 2018

Roundup

Winter Streaming Preview 2018

Winter Season 2018 is already upon us! And already it seems as if we – the UK viewers – might need to subscribe to Netflix and Amazon Prime, as well as Crunchyroll, Funimation (for simuldubs) and …

AUKN Staff • 30th January 2018

Features

Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2018 – (Un)true Colours – Secrets and Lies in Japanese Cinema

The 2018 Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme (February 02nd to March 28th) will launch in London in just over a week’s time and it will tour the UK bringing a selection of some of the latest…

genkinahito • 24th January 2018

Features

Anime UK News Review of 2017 Part 2 (Manga and Light Novels)

Manga

Demelza:

Looking back on 2017 I realise that I haven’t been buying many new manga series, but despite that, the few I have picked up have proven well worthwhile. This year saw the release…

AUKN Staff • 22nd December 2017

Features

Anime UK News Review of 2017 Part 1

2017 has been the year that anime made a triumphant return to many local cinemas throughout the UK, continuing the trend set by Your Name in 2016. And as Amazon Prime and Netflix have gained exclusive…

AUKN Staff • 21st December 2017

Features

AUKN Anime and Manga Christmas Gift Guide 2017

We’ve had a lot of amazing releases this year, and they all would make wonderful surprises under the tree for that special someone. But to help with the Christmas shopping blues, here's Anime UK News Gift Guide 2017!

darkstorm • 3rd December 2017

Features

The Anime Nasties Era: Titles that were Cut/Censored by the BBFC

Since Halloween has arrived and Perfect Blue is celebrating its 20th anniversary in the cinema, I decided to make a post about an era that changed anime distribution here in the UK.…

NormanicGrav • 31st October 2017

Features

Autumn Streaming Preview 2017

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since we were speculating at Anime UK News as to how a new and refreshingly different autumn series set in the world of competitive ice skating would…

AUKN Staff • 23rd October 2017

Opinion

J-Novel Club: A Year Later

This time last year J-Novel Club quietly launched. The service brought a new way for us to legally consume light novels in the West and now with the service celebrating its first birthday what better time to take a look at how far they've come!

Demelza • 17th October 2017

Interview

An Interview with Masaaki Yuasa (Night is Short, Lu over the Wall)

On 4 October 2017, anime fans across the United Kingdom will be basking in the absurd joy of Night is Short, Walk on Girl – a seductively surreal and delightfully eccentric feature from …

Josh A. Stevens • 3rd October 2017

Opinion

The Anime UK News Team Reviews Netflix’s Death Note

If your favourite part of the original story is the L vs. Light mind battles and the creative ways they try to ‘one up’ each other, then you’ll most likely hate this version. If, however, you enjoyed more of the world building, seeing how the Death Note could be used in creative ways and don’t mind encountering fresh (if controversial) takes on the characters, this film could satisfy your next popcorn movie Netflix night binge.

AUKN Staff • 1st September 2017

Roundup

Summer Preview 2017

The 2017 Summer Simulcast Season is underway! But how many of the series that we’ve been looking forward to are actually available for us to watch legally in the UK? Welcome to the Ballroom was the…

AUKN Staff • 26th July 2017

Opinion

Top Tips to Surviving Conventions

Whatever part of the geek culture you’re in – anime, video games, cosplay, comics, etc. – you’ll most likely have been to, or plan to attend, a convention. They’re events arranged throughout the…

darkstorm • 22nd May 2017