On Friday last week, the latest Wachowski “Matrix trilogy” brothers action movie Speed Racer (based on the 1960s anime series Speed Racer (aka Mach GoGoGo)) opened in theaters …
Rhoda “Voxie” Villegas is giving away (free) copies of her (now in-active) fanzine ‘MAMEzine‘. Along side magazine regulars like (old) news, features and reviews,…
It has been several months since the President of Geneon USA, Eiji Orii, left his [PDF format] parting words back in November 2007, and while there is still no official word on the situation, …
Manga Ent. UK have confirmed two new UK anime licenses.
Hellsing Ultimate is a high-quality OVA re-animation of Kouta Hirano’s popular vampire/horror action manga. So far, the series…Three Japanese salary-men were arrested late last week for allegedly uploading new episodes of anime to the Japanese file-sharing program “Share”. According to Canned Dogs…
Anime influenced (UK based) t-shirt designer Terratag has released two new designs based on the popular action anime Afro Samurai. These t-shirts, created alongside Afro Samurai mangaka Takashi…
We’ve received news that on the 20th of May (from 6PM till 8PM) at the Walthamstow Library (E17 7JN), Tokyopop will be running one of their “recon” manga events; basically,…
Earlier in the week, Nozomi Entertainment (US anime publishing arm of Rightstuf International) announced that they’ve acquired the fan-favourite slice of life anime franchise Aria,…
To celebrate the recent release of Death Note (anime) Volume 1 in the UK (it came out last Monday, 28th April), Manga Ent. have posted up 5 short streaming video clips cut from the first couple of …
Kicking off next weekend (10th to 11th May), the Bristol Comics Expo has expanded its focus on the (global) manga scene to unprecedented levels. We’re told the line-up includes guest appearances…
In London on Friday 16th May (from 1pm till 6pm), King’s College London (Room K2.31, Strand Building, Strand Campus) will be hosting a seminar on anime and manga; it’s titled “Japan’s…
Several impressive new trailers have been released recently and here’s a quick run-down of what to look out for:
A new (and much longer) trailer for Mamoru “Ghost in the Shell”…As anticipation for the live action Dragonball movie reaches boiling point, Japanese manga magazine Shonen Jump have announced that they intend to produce a brand new (albeit one-shot) Dragonball…
UK-based Death Note fans are being invited to attend a Northern gathering next week (Monday, 28th April) to celebrate the in-bound releases of the first live action movie (in UK cinemas) and the…
As the American convention season starts to hot up, several major announcements have sprung up from the most recent “New York Comic Convention”: [Note: Companies refered …
North American movie studio Dreamworks have, ahead of strong competition from Universal and Sony, acquired the rights to produce a 3D live action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, with relative…
Following on from our recent news story that anime director Makoto Shinkai is currently living in London, Otaku News has word that on the 20th of June at the BFI Southbank (in London), Shinkai will…
A new trailer for the highly anticipated anime anthology Batman: Gotham Knight has been published online by Yahoo!. Featuring six short films animated by the likes of Studio “Tekkonkinkreet”…
Earlier this week, the last 6 minutes of the third episode of ‘Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2′ (currently airing in Japan) were leaked online and quickly became available…
A Gabriela Robin Site have posted a fully translated interview with OST composer Yoko Kanno (famous for her musical work on the likes of Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne and Wolf’s Rain) concerning…
