The Edinburgh University Anime & Animation Society are planning a rare Scottish anime convention (called Mini-con). The press release has been quoted below.
“Edinburgh University…Having been ignored of late, it’s about time we updated our visitor opinion poll and as ever, we’ve tried to pick an interesting subject for you to vote on. In light of all the recent…
According to an article posted by UK newspaper The Guardian, a recent study has shown that Britain is the country that downloads the most TV shows from the Internet; accounting for a whopping 18.5%…
Last week, we brought you news that the popular US anime publisher ADV had “laid off up to 40 employees” (mostly from their fledgling manga division), and while an ADV spokesperson…
I’ve taken a look at the promising first volume of MVM’s duel-language re-release of Yu Yu Hakusho; containing the first four of what will end up being a 100+ episodes show- by anyone’s…
We rarely run competitions here at Anime UK News, but after speaking with Paul Nicholson of Terratag, it didn’t take much to convince us that this would be worthwhile. Having been a fan of…
In yet another big day for UK anime DVD releases; today has seen no less than 11 anime-related DVDs flood onto UK shop shelves.21st March releasesChobits #1Chrono Crusade #1Digimon #2Final Fantasy…
Beginning what is a spate of Steamboy related news; the LA Times have recently posted an article about the film and have included an interview with its acclaimed director, Katsuhiro Otomo. This…
Anime News Service have revealed some information concerning the English dub for (Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film) Howl’s Moving Castle, confirming that both Christian Bale (Batman…
Ending our short lull of anime reviews, I’ve posted up my thoughts on Trigun #2, out today from MVM.
“Trigun #2 sees this show settling into the familiar, ever so predictable formula…After the recent confirmation of Columbia Tristar’s plans to release Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s Steamboy in the UK (on DVD) on the 6th of June, it has emerged (thanks to Eye on Anime) that…
Having a few days ago posted news outlining the problems being faced by many US-based anime publishers and their rumoured over-saturation of the US anime industry, it has been revealed that ADV…
The DVD cover-art for MVM’s April DVDs has been published and we’ve posted the images for both GunGrave #1 and Haibane Renmei #1.…
After the knee-jerk debate caused by the news that UK libraries were being offered recommended (and screened) Japanese manga graphic novels to encourage reading amongst adolescents and teenagers,…
One day later than planned, this is our weekly UK anime chart based off of Play.com’s best selling UK anime DVDs.
1. Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Vol.2 (Manga Ent.) 2. Trigun…With the Easter Holidays fast approaching, Play.com have organised a respectable anime DVD sale. Featuring mostly ADV and Manga Ent. titles from around £10 upwards, we suggest you take…
Courtesy of Anime-On-Line, we have posted a small image of the Yu Yu Hakusho art-box. This limited edition release also includes a Yu Yu Hakusho t-shirt and of course, the first DVD volume of this…
Today I’ve taken a look at MVM’s penultimate (seventh) volume of Kiddy Grade, which was released the UK the Monday before last.
“Despite there being an intangibly inspirational…With MinamiCon now winding down, news that was revealed at the convention is starting to filter through and it’s MVM again (“more acquisitions than months in the year”) who…
In a recent interview posted on Mecha Anime HQ, Bandai’s Jerry Chu announced his companies (US) acquisition of Gundam SEED: Destiny.
The interview also touches on the precarious state…
