Production I.G’s sci-fi drama The Sky Crawlers (the latest anime film to be directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Innocence)) has been licensed for a US release (amongst many other…
Though it has been out in Japanese cinemas for no more than a couple of weeks, reports on Anime News Network are talking about unnamed Hollywood movie studios showing an interest in remaking Detroit…
Nagi Noda, the director of the memorable first opening theme for Honey & Clover (see video link below), as passed away, aged 35, due to on-going complications following a traffic accident…
World renowned Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, famous for cultivating the satirical Superflat movement, has directed the animated music video for the song ‘Good Morning‘ …
The trailer for a new anime series called ‘First-Squad‘ was recently published online, via YouTube. What is interesting about this particular production is that, despite being…
For those wondering about the status of Revelation Films‘ Funimation titles, we contacted them directly and they responded with this rather grim sounding message.
“We have decided…
According to a news report published by Eyeonanime.co.uk, UK distributor Manga Ent. have struck a deal with US anime publisher Funimation to release the following anime series in the UK on DVD:…
In a recent article published on the NYTimes.com website, US comic book publishers Marvel Entertainment (famous for their superhero comic series like Spiderman and X-men) and the anime studio…
Manga Ent. have uploaded 6 streaming clips of their violent vampire action anime Hellsing Ultimate. The footage has been sliced from the first two volumes, both of which are due out on the 13th …
As is fairly traditional in Japan in the wake of a movie released by Hayao Miyazaki, anime director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) was asked to share his opinions on Miyazaki‘s Ponyo on…
Manga Entertainment have signed up with SCI-FI-LONDON to join their new OKTOBERFEST event, which will be held on the 3rd of October with screenings of Strait Jacket and Hellsing Ultimate. A full…
Anime soundtrack composer Yoko Kanno, well-known for her work on the likes of Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne and Wolf’s Rain, will be lending her voice to a character in Dimension Bomb (directed…
The first chapter of Bakuman, the latest manga from Death Note creator’s Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, has been released online for free (translated into English) via the Japanese Shonen…
The last anime of the seminal anime and manga creator Osamu Tezuka was left unfinished at the time of his death on February 9, 1989, but nearly twenty years later, his son Macoto Tezka will return…
Artist Yoshitoshi ABe has published his latest dōjinshi manga (self-published comic, 53 pages in length) on iTunes in both Japanese and English. You will need an Apple iPhone or Apple iPod Touch…
Over this past weekend, AmeCon 2008 was happening at the University of Leicester and brought with it several new anime licenses that UK anime fans may be interested to discover.
Beez have picked…
Following on from their online (free) streaming of ADV‘s English dubbed version of Welcome to the NHK, video streaming website Crunchyroll has continued to acquire the legal rights to…
Following news that Afro Samurai (5 episode violent action anime from 2007) generated upwards of $13 million for US anime distributors Funimation, a follow-up movie called Afro Samurai: Resurrection…
British writer and anime expert Helen McCarthy, co-author of The Anime Encyclopedia, has recently published her latest book. Descriptively titled “500 Essential Anime Movies“,…
