There will be a double-bill screening of retro adventure favourites Lupin 3rd: Secret of Mamo (1978) and Space Adventure Cobra (1982) in the zavvi store at the Manchester Arndale Shopping Centre…
IMAGI’s computer graphics Astro Boy film continues to progress at a steady pace with the news that the movie’s voice cast now includes some big-name Hollywood talent, not least …
Rapidly following on from their currently running anime season, the BFI Southbank are planning to screen 24 live action classic “Japanese gems” through-out July. The following…
Following up last week’s report on Tokyopop‘s internal restructuring, theBookseller.com have published a short interview with Tokyopop‘s new UK sales and marketing …
Popularly translated as Club-to-death (or Beating) Angel Dokuro-chan, the fan-favourite ‘slapstick’ comedy “Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan” has been licensed…
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a newer “version” of the original 1995 sci-fi classic by Mamoru Oshii. It has been completely remastered (in terms of visuals and sound; including a new 6.1…
On Sunday (June 8th) afternoon, a 25-year-old man (allegedly) by the name of Tomohiro Kato drove his truck into the heart of Tokyo’s Akihabara and injured several people. Upon exiting …
The Daily Mail have posted a positive preview/feature on the wine-tasting manga “Kami No Shizuku” (a.k.a The Drops Of God), which seems to be set for a UK release (no release date …
According to Anime News Network, the first soundtrack for Macross Frontier debuted in the Japanese album charts at No. 3, having sold a massive 72,000 copies since its release last week, and therefore…
The UK’s first and only dedicated anime TV channel, Anime Central, appears to be on the verge of closing down. Having aired nothing but Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex…
Another live action adaptation of Death Note is in the works, but this time, it’s a Hollywood-based project. The rights have been snapped up by movie producers Vertigo Entertainment, …
MVM have posted four free preview clips of Gravitation online for your viewing pleasure. The synopsis is as follows:
“Japanese anime goes gay with a fantastic new series which follows …
Yesterday, wide-reaching manga publisher Tokyopop announced their plans to restructure their company, essentially splitting into two seperate entities, one to handle “new media”…
With the dust settling after this weekend’s London Expo, news of the UK anime industry’s exploits has gradually appeared online. In terms of new licenses, there was, unfortunately,…
According to GhibliWiki, Film4 will be airing Hayao “Spirited Away” Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke on June 10th at 11pm as a part of their 100 Films to See Before You Die brand…
ADV Films have hooked up with video-streaming website crunchyroll to offer fans an absolutely free viewing of their (English dubbed) satirical dark comedy Welcome to the NHK, an anime series…
On April 16th 2008, Bandai Entertainment started what would turn into a frenzy of regular updates and an ongoing space opera epic, using all but two websites, secret source code messages, and…
Running over this weekend is the London MCM Expo, featuring most (if not all) of the major UK anime and manga distributors, a number of anime dub voice actors (Mike McFarland (Master Roshi from …
A scene from the sixth episode (“The Mist of Vengeance”) of the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime has provoked angry responses from Arab and Islamic communities, so much so …
In addition to our previous news reports on Funimation’s recent anime licenses, over the last weekend they also announced four further new acquisitions:
D.Gray-man (first 51 episodes…
