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…Booking is now open for the forthcoming anime season at the BFI Southbank in London. Running from the 20th of June until the 22nd, a diverse selection of the latest anime movies will be screened …
Currently enjoying at least three (soon to be four) new anime acquisitions, US anime distributor FUNimation are working their way through this week by announcing one new license every evening.…
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…
