It was recently revealed on Anime News Network that Engish author Lucy Cousins’s childrens picture book “Hooray for Fish!” has been animated in Japan (by the relatively …
After a recent spate of violent juvenile crime in Japan (including the infamous case where a school girl axe-murdered her sleeping father), two of the country’s most controversial anime…
“The Agriculture Ministry [of Japan] is not in charge of Gundam,” said ministry official Tsutomu Shimomura, after it turned out that six of his civil servant co-workers had been…
Nakama Britannica (not to be confused with the Nakama Britannica Portal) is collaboration on the part of Anime UK News to produce an anime blog worthy of spotlighting the underrated quality of…
As Eureka Seven enters its second half the plot developments are still moving forward apace and the characters are continuing to develop too. It is perhaps a series that demands a larger than average…
In a news report posted on Anime Nation earlier this evening, the worst has been confirmed with regards to the future of Geneon USA; the company will cease all DVD production, sales and distribution…
Back in August, we reported news that ADV Films had signed a US distribution deal with Geneon; meaning that while Geneon would still license and produce anime is the US, all of their future sales,…
In a forum post over at AnimeOnDVD, John Sirabella (president) of Media Blasters casually announced that the company has picked up Tweeny Witches (a.k.a Mahou Shoujotai) for a US DVD release.…
The company Tezuka Productions, founded by the late Osamu Tezuka, will begin a project to digitise and colour all 150,000 pages of Tezuka’s manga, at a speed of 1000 pages a month. Tezuka’s…
ICv2 have posted a three–part–interview with Viz Media’s Senior Vice President – Liza Coppola. The interview focuses on the growth of the manga industry in the US,…
Following on from the earlier news that Geneon Entertainment USA’s (a large US distributor; MVM distribute a lot of their titles in the UK) sales and marketing will be completely taken …
The popular franchise of many different names, most commonly known around Western countires as “Fooly Cooly”, has already had six episodes of anime, two volumes of manga, and three…
Originally released in June (original movie) and November (sequel) last year, the two “Death Note” live-action films finally get an English DVD and theatrical release in America…
In addition to Johnny Yong Bosch, Revelation Films will be bringing over two further guests to the London MCM Expo (20-21 Oct) in anime dub voice actors Laura Bailey and Colleen Clinkenbeard. …
Sweatdrop Studios have hooked up with Infinite Ideas to produce four manga-style “life-enhancing” books; the “Manga Life” series includes “Beauty secrets…
The final episode of School Days, which was scheduled to air on Japanese TV this past Tuesday evening, was pulled from broadcast and replaced by calming images of “Nice Boat“s after…
Sony Pictures have given us a heads up on two of their upcoming anime DVD releases, both due out on 24th September;
Paprika is the latest animated movie from the one-and-only Satoshi Kon. Quite…Manga and MVM have announced that English voice actor and former Power Ranger Johnny Yong Bosch will be at the next London MCM Expo (20-21 Oct). Bosch’s dub career includes many notable …
The UK-based comic artists at Sweatdrop Studios have dropped us a line to announce the latest episode of their fledgling audio podcast. Hosted by published artists like Sonia Leong, it’s…
