Bandai Visual USA have licensed two new anime series; the supernatural drama “Shigofumi” (12 episodes) and harem romance “True Tears” (13 episodes).
Given these…
Following up our report on ADV halting their UK DVD sales and distribution while they transition to a “third party distributor”, the company has continued its back-stage revamps…
Twitch have posted a number of revealing, action-packed images snapped from the set of the upcoming Blood: The Last Vampire film, a live action adaptation of the popular horror anime from 2000.…
Sweatdrop Studios recently celebrated their 6th birthday. Having been in operation since 2001 and at the very forefront of the “UK manga” movement, this independent UK comics …
We’ve received word that Manchester’s exhibition center (on Level 1 of the venue) will be hosting the “How Manga Took over the World” event. It’s set to run for…
It’s the final volume of the Tokyo arc and the title ‘Full Circle’ is apt in more ways than one, for not only does it refer to the direction that the main characters’ lives are taking …
According to a press release received by our forum user darksaviour, ADV Films have halted sales and distribution of several of their newer UK DVD releases while they transition their “UK…
As a part of their switch over to a third-party distributor, ADV Films are selling all the DVDs remaining in their warehouse at bargain basement prices, with each volume of the likes of Azumanga…
An inferno of burning cherry blossoms in a public park, a white wolf, and murderous bandits from a past age; these are just some of the dangers that Hikaru must face in her quest to find her older brother…
The Young Adult Library Services Association (a part of the American Library Association) have been handing out their prestigious annual awards for 2008, and rather than focus exclusively …
The latest issue (number 27) of ImagineFX magazine is a manga-themed special edition. Adapty subtitled “Manga mayhem!”, it boasts manga-style cover-art by artist Kyoung Hwan…
Anime UK News has received news from Beez Entertainment annoucing that they’ve picked up 2004’s long awaited 6-episode OVA series Gunbuster 2 (aka Diebuster) and intend to release…
BBC Four will be airing Studio Ghibli’s Oscar-winning fantasy Spirited Away on January 26th at 8:00PM. It’s most likely that the Japanese version (with English subtitles) will…
“It is not the sword that will change the world. It is words.”
In the opening titles, we see first Saint Germain, then Robespierre writing words of power on thin air. And the words ‘revolution’ and…
Otaku News have linked up a streaming video presentation of Jonathan Clements’s “Five Girls Name Moe: The Anime Erotic” seminar for the “Swansea Animation Days”…
Coming soon after yesterday’s news that ADV intend to cease publication of Newtype USA (as of February 2008), the company have already announced that they will be quickly replacing it …
According to wide spread reports, North America’s “Newtype USA” anime magazine is to cease publication as of February 2008. Owned by ADV Films, no reason has been provided…
We’re barely into 2008, yet the rather dramatic and convoluted issue of anime on UK TV has continued to twist and turn its way into the new year.
• Of course, the most saddening development…
News from Japan suggests that Masaaki Yuasa’s next anime project will be another TV series animated by Madhouse Studios (following on from 2006’s crazy-horror-adventure Kemonozume…
Publishers Weekly have posted an enlightening discussion with manga-ka Kio Shimoku, author of the “geek-culture” manga “Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern…
