Anime UK News Review of 2016 – Part 1
2016 has been a turbulent year – and at Anime UK News we’ve had our fair share of ups and downs too. But overall, it’s been a good year for anime, light novels…
It’s currently [insert number found on this site] days to Christmas and you’re either in two camps; calm as a cucumber and ready for the big day whether you celebrate it or not, or stressing out because…
This year marks my second chance to attend the anime day at the Leeds International Film Festival. This year also marked a fairly major change for the anime day, as instead of being focused on Japanese…
Makoto Shinkai has had an interesting year, to put it lightly: Your Name (two years in the making) was released in Japan, first as a novel in June, then as a full anime feature film the following…
“Those of us who are geeks, OK, real geeks, who earned our geekhood at school through sweat and loneliness and wedgies will no long stand idly by and watch our geekly identity taken from us be people…
Autumn Season 2016 – the leaves are falling and just as we finish watching and discussing Mob Psycho 100 or Re:Zero or Sweetness and Lightning, the anime studios are already tempting us …
Retro Anime Interview
Anime has become a global phenomenon over the last decade thanks in part to the internet and the way it has made things increasingly available but many fans consuming the…
Kotoyo Noguchi is an independent manga artist, illustrator and designer based in Japan. To date she has published two volumes of her Life with Mii: Everyday Cat Stories (Shirokuro Neko Manga) …
Mariko Hihara is an experienced Japanese author who has written over fifty novels, primarily in the boys’ love/yaoi and fantasy genres, as well as scripts for several manga. She has been…
On Saturday 24th October 2015 the first MCM Loves Anime took place, held by anime distributor Anime Limited to coincide with the MCM Comic Con. The event involved a marathon of five anime films…
At the end of last month, one of Scotland’s historic cities (that we’ll leave a mystery) hosted a special event for all fans of anime, Sci-Fi and comics culture – the Glasgow…
The BFI London Film Festival runs from October 07th to October 18thand features a programme of Japanese films that contain anime and live-action, drama and adventure and a J-horror title thrown…
2015 marks the fifth year of the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival, the only film event in Wales to show anime on the big screen. The festival takes place over the course of a day in Cardiff and …
For five years I have been to various conventions around the UK and reporting on them for Anime UK News. Last year I decided to expand my convention travels to Ireland for the first MCM Dublin Comic…
Anime and manga have plenty of diversity in terms of genre and setting, whether it be futuristic mecha, fantasy-like magical girls, romantic harems and boys’ love tales, stories set in…
Of all the light novel series overdue a release, perhaps the biggest title was Durarara!! Yen Press have been releasing the manga adaptation for some time, and the anime adaptation has been hugely…
The Summer 2015 anime season is less than a week away and Anime UK News has collected a selection of highlights in TV anime to help you to get a better idea of what you may want to watch.
Spring 2015 turned…
The Summer 2015 anime season is less than a week away and Anime UK News has collected a selection of highlights in TV anime to help you to get a better idea of what you may want to watch.
Spring 2015 turned…
‘Anime’ is a Western coined word used to define Japanese style of motion-picture animation. It sounds simple to identity, especially when key visual cues such as the big eyes, colourful hair …
Alice in Wonderland in Japan
by Zoe Burgess
(an extract from ‘The Representation of Alice in Wonderland in Japan’ to celebrate 150 years of Alice)
There has been a long tradition of classic western…
