It’s been announced that a TV anime adaptation of Blade of the Immortal, a popular supernatural samurai manga that’s been running for many years, is currently underway in Japan …
A new anime TV series based on the 1973 vintage super-sentai classic Casshern is underway in Japan and set to be broadcast during the autumn of 2008 with animation by Madhouse. This will be the third…
A run-in with an immortal demon-warrior named Zodd, an assault on a strategically significant fortress and underhand court politics present both problems and opportunities for Guts, Griffith…
In a surprise turn of events, one of the most prominent Japanese animation companies – Gonzo Digimation – have made the first step – with respect to Japanese companies …
According to an entry on the BBFC website, ILC Entertainment (‘ILC Prime’ are known for their low budget UK anime DVD releases) are planning to release the first live action Death…
Tokyopop founder Stuart “DJ Milky” Levy is pushing ahead with his plans to produce live action, English language movies based on a number of his company’s most popular manga…
Earlier in March, we reported on Guinness World Records’ attempt to organise the ‘Largest Gathering of Games Characters’ (people in cosplay, obviously) for the latest …
In news that essentially flys against everything that the US (and by extension, the UK) anime industry has been fighting against for several years now, the video-streaming site Crunchyroll…
The protracted saga of ADV’s status in the UK appears to be at end with the switch over to their distribution partner, Lace Digital Media Sales, having been officially rubber-stamped earlier…
Troubled pop icon Britney Spears has jumped on the so-called ‘anime’ bandwagon with her latest music video for the song “Break the Ice”, which depicts the blonde singer…
A striking aspect of watching Eureka Seven is that you come to expect the unexpected. As enjoyable as I find the aerial combat and edge-of-the-seat tension to be, it has a complexity of writing …
Several new UK anime release dates have come to light recently, many of which involve publishers MVM and Manga Ent. and extend as far as 2nd June. The one big surprise is the tsundere-fantasy Shana…
In addition to the mutitude of other new anime recently announced as in-production in Japan, another iteration of Masamune (“Ghost in the Shell”) Shirow’s Appleseed has…
Big-eye art is a new book (due out soon, release date below) looking at the world’s continued fascination with ‘Big-eye art’, which apparently emerged in the late 1950s in…
We’ve been contacted by the people at Guinness World Records to share news on their latest record attempt ‘Largest Gathering of Games Charecters’ (basically, they are looking…
AnimeOnDVD are reporting (though no official source is provided) that ADV Films UK (now via Lace, following the recent closure of ADV’s London office) have circulated the following new…
Over the last couple of weeks, a large number of high profile new anime series, sequels and movies have been confirmed as being in-production.
Leading the list is the long-rumored Trigun movie,…Two nostalgic mecha anime in Voltron and Star Fleet (X-Bomber) are set to be released in the UK later this year. 1984’s cult favourite Voltron (123 episodes long) will be published by Manga…
As the ever-potent presence of manga in the UK sees dozens of new graphic novels released on a monthly basis, Anime UK News is looking to add one new dedicated manga reviewer to our established writing…
A narrative prologue that plays before the opening theme in each episode does a pretty good job of summarising the essential story of Witchblade; an ancient weapon sought for all time, but capable…
