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“,…
While the worldwide popularity of the Death Note franchise (with its live action, anime and manga incarnations) continues unabated, the artist/writer team that created its original story,…
To celebrate their “how manga took over the world” exhibition, Manchester’s Urbis (M60 2LA) will be hosting a string of evening screenings of anime on most weekends through…
A trailer for Casshern Sins was posted online last week. This new anime TV series from Madhouse Studios (Ninja Scroll, Death Note) is another spin-off from 1973’s original sci-fi action…
Accoridng to an early listing on the HMV.com website, UK anime publisher’s MVM have snapped up J.C.Staff’s Daphne In The Brilliant Blue and will be releasing the first DVD volume…
The following Studio (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) Ghibli movies be airing on Film4 during August.
Sat., 09/08/08 at 3:20pm: The Cat Returns Tues., 12/08/08 at 3:05pm: The Cat Returns…To promote their 25th August release of Buso Renkin, Manga Ent. have published online four clips for free streaming. Having been serialised in Shonen Jump, the same magazine as Naruto and Bleach,…
A manga & anime art exhibition intended to “support and promote talented manga and anime artists” will be happening at the The Vestry House (Surrey, TW9 1SA) on 15th/16th of …
The latest issue (#34) of ImagineFX (on sale since Tuesday 29 July) features a manga-inspired cover (girl with mech) drawn by Udon Entertainment’s Saejin Oh. The issue itself contains…
ADV Films and LDMS have sent out a press release detailing their UK DVD release schedule for the final quarter of 2008, which has been hit by the recently announced cancellations. This new schedule…
Though it seemed inevitable that the issues surrounding ADV in the US would eventually impact on their UK activity too, a report via AnimeOnDVD has formally confirmed that the following ADV UK…
