The Wachowski Bros. (directors of “The Matrix) have released the first official trailer (Quicktime) for their latest movie “Speed Racer”. Starring an A-list cast Hollywood…
Still celebrating the success of their recent event (attended by upwards of 400 people over three days), Irish anime convention Eirtakon have got in touch with us to say that they’ve already…
Our forum poster Akaten has dropped us a line revealing that the BFI (British Film Institute) will be publishing a book about Spirited Away in their “Film Classics” line.
The 100-page…
Courtesy of forum regular Akaten, a listing on the HMV.com website reveals that Revolver Entertainment are set to release the Katsuhiro (“AKIRA”) Otomo directed live action adaptation…
BOST TV are a legal video-on-demand (based on my experience with their service, it’s basically a higher quality version of YouTube) website streaming “unlicensed” subtitled…
Anime UK News has received a press release from Dimensional Manga; an apparently new “world manga” publisher based out of Wolverhampton looking to release a series of graphic novels…
Manga influenced artist Viviane has recently let us know about a set of manga-style tarot cards (“Magic Manga Tarot”) she’s released with European publishing house “Urania”.…
I’m glad that I watched these five episodes before jumping to conclusions on Utawarerumono because there’s a lot surrounding the show’s premise and origins that doesn’t…
The presenters of Anime Network UK (Emma Vieceli and Stuart Claw) have, according to forum post by Vieceli, mutually parted ways with the channel for undisclosed reasons. As of today, ADV have…
The World R:2 is a newer and improved version of the MMORPG featured in the TV anime series ‘.hack//sign’ which was notable for its wonderful score by Yuki Kajiura. New series ‘.hack//roots’ plunges…
Continuing on his adventure to protect and learn more about Ren (a Shichiko-Hoju, a powerful Edel Raid capable of becoming a weapon when she fuses with another person’s soul), Cou and the…
With all the recent exciting news coming from Production I.G – it would seem as if Christmas has come a month too early. Several Masamune Shirow themed developments have surfaced over…
Volume four of Gun X Sword moves immediately into the midst of things, picking up where the previous volume had left off, with the confrontations between Rei and his long-time nemesis the Claw,…
There was controversy in the online anime community earlier this week after it had been revealed that Singaporean anime distributor ODEX and US copyright enforcers BayTSP were sending out legal…
A teenagage student in the US was recently suspended from his Virginia school after he was discovered to be writing his own (clearly labelled) “death note”; alarms were immediately…
The first feature-length effort from Gonzo was always going to be, in my mind at least, a big event. The premise of a post-apocalyptic future world, a struggle against nature and everything wrapped…
After fighting their way through their teacher’s personal tests, the paper exam and the Forest of Death, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke – the members of Squad Seven – find themselves…
This was a title that acquired considerable notoriety among fans for allegedly passing itself off as a cash-in based on the success of the Ninja Scroll feature film. It actually has little or no…
After many months (and for thousands of Dragonball fans, years) of speculation, it has finally been confirmed by Twentieth Century Fox that a big-budget live-action version of Dragonball is…
According to Animetion, Revelation Films have lined up the first season of Hell Girl (a.k.a Jigoku Shojo) for a UK DVD release starting in February 2008. The supernatural mystery is a 26 episode…
