Maintaining their support of Studio Ghibli movies, Channel 4 and Film 4 will both be airing a number of Hayao Miyazaki films over the Christmas and New Year holidays. The known TV schedule is listed…
This weekend is like any other for the UK-based anime fans, but over in the US, otaku are currently enjoying their first ever “New York Anime Festival”, which offers the usual mix …
The Wachowski Bros. (directors of “The Matrix) have released the first official trailer (Quicktime) for their latest movie “Speed Racer”. Starring an A-list cast Hollywood…
Still celebrating the success of their recent event (attended by upwards of 400 people over three days), Irish anime convention Eirtakon have got in touch with us to say that they’ve already…
Our forum poster Akaten has dropped us a line revealing that the BFI (British Film Institute) will be publishing a book about Spirited Away in their “Film Classics” line.
The 100-page…
Courtesy of forum regular Akaten, a listing on the HMV.com website reveals that Revolver Entertainment are set to release the Katsuhiro (“AKIRA”) Otomo directed live action adaptation…
BOST TV are a legal video-on-demand (based on my experience with their service, it’s basically a higher quality version of YouTube) website streaming “unlicensed” subtitled…
Anime UK News has received a press release from Dimensional Manga; an apparently new “world manga” publisher based out of Wolverhampton looking to release a series of graphic novels…
Manga influenced artist Viviane has recently let us know about a set of manga-style tarot cards (“Magic Manga Tarot”) she’s released with European publishing house “Urania”.…
The presenters of Anime Network UK (Emma Vieceli and Stuart Claw) have, according to forum post by Vieceli, mutually parted ways with the channel for undisclosed reasons. As of today, ADV have…
With all the recent exciting news coming from Production I.G – it would seem as if Christmas has come a month too early. Several Masamune Shirow themed developments have surfaced over…
There was controversy in the online anime community earlier this week after it had been revealed that Singaporean anime distributor ODEX and US copyright enforcers BayTSP were sending out legal…
A teenagage student in the US was recently suspended from his Virginia school after he was discovered to be writing his own (clearly labelled) “death note”; alarms were immediately…
After many months (and for thousands of Dragonball fans, years) of speculation, it has finally been confirmed by Twentieth Century Fox that a big-budget live-action version of Dragonball is…
According to Animetion, Revelation Films have lined up the first season of Hell Girl (a.k.a Jigoku Shojo) for a UK DVD release starting in February 2008. The supernatural mystery is a 26 episode…
FirstShowing.net have published an interview with AstroBoy director Colin Brady which includes some conceptual art to be used for the upcoming film (animated by Imagi, whose most recently …
Production I.G. picked up an award in the “cel animation” category at the recent “London International Advertising Awards” for Kazuto Nakazawa’s animated…
Recent reports point towards the possibility that Bandai Entertainment have licensed the latest anime phenomenon “Lucky Star”, after the show had been advertised as an “Available…
During late October, UK anime fans made their bi-annual pilgrimage en-masse to the ever-growing London MCM Expo and it’s large array of exciting guests. Amongst the many dazzling sights…
