A brand new (3+ minutes) trailer for Appleseed Ex Machina has been published online and can be streamed over at YouTube. This CG-animated movie is a follow-up to the popular 2004 Appleseed film…
Anime UK News recently spoke to Paul Gravett, curator of The British Museum’s first anime season aimed at families to find out why they have decided to embrace Japanese culture and screen…
Random House have dropped us a note about an exciting new graphical novel competition being organised by The Observer and Comica. After sending in your short graphic novel (obviously, a manga-influenced…
Courtesy of Optimum Releasing, Studio Ghibli’s latest movie – Tales from Earthsea will be hitting UK cinemas starting this Friday, 3rd August. If you head on over to the movie’s…
MVM will begin releasing the highly anticipated sci-fi opus Ergo Proxy on UK DVD on the 6th of August and to build a little bit of pre-release antcipation, they have published 3 short clips taken…
Over the last few days, San Diego Comic Con (arguably North America’s largest comic convention) has been taking place and as is ever the case with these large events, several new anime and…
Lunar Entertainment, a video game store based in Fleetwood (near Blackpool), are kick starting a brand new manga and anime cafe. Although they have not announced an official opening date, they…
In the wake of Michael Bay’s popular Transformers movie, UK DVD publishers Metrodrome are jumping on the bandwagon by releasing “Transformers Takara – The Complete Collection”;…
The busy chaps over at Cosplay Island recently got in touch with Anime UK News to let us know about their newly launched website; a dedicated and interactive domain for budding UK cosplayers; once…
Although this weekend’s “Japan Expo” carried some big news for the UK industry, it was also an exciting time for US fans too, as one of their biggest conventions – Otakon…
For those of you following the growing number of clips and trailers for the much anticipated “Rebuild of Evangelion”, a short (15 second) TV commercial, which contains newly animated…
Manga Ent. UK have today announced that they are going to release the popular Shonen Jump supernatural action adventure Bleach on UK DVD – the first 12 episodes of which shall be hitting …
A few months ago, digital TV (sky number 368) channel “Rockworld.TV” started airing Cromartie High School and Gilgamesh. Somewhat surprisingly (no official press releases circulated),…
More exciting news from Northern Ireland’s only anime convention, Tomo-dachi, has reached us; taking place from the 24th until the 26th of August 2007 at the University of Ulster, the …
For the millions of Evangelion fans out there, Gainax have seen fit to release a good quality version of Rebuild of Evangelion; the first of four new Neon Genesis Evangelion movies that are due …
If you liked Afro Samurai, you’re going to love the pilot/trailer for “The Five Killers”. Animated with a high budget by the famous Gonzo animation studio (Last Exile, Afro…
In an interesting press release recently circulated by SEGA, it has been confirmed that they intend to release two Bleach video games in Europe – with both “Bleach: Shattered Blade”…
Though it’s scheduled to premiere in Japan during September, a trailer for the (first of four) new Rebuild of Evangelion movie has been leaked on YouTube. It’s a rather low quality…
The British Museum, which is based in London, is planning a couple of anime-flavored film seasons that will run from the end of July right the way through until the end of September.
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An ultra limited edition (individually numbered) of Afro Samurai has been quietly launched on UK DVD. It’s an exclusive to Amazon.co.uk and will see you take home all five episodes for …
