UK newspaper The Times spotlights Hataraki Man
UK newspaper The Times (via their online outlet Times Online) have recently published an article looking at how women in Japan are gradually establishing themselves in the country’s …
Misako Rocks introduces Tekkon Kinkreet at the ICA
Japanese American manga artist Misako Rocks will be introducing the compelling Tekkon Kinkreet film at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) tonight at 8.45pm. Misako draws Disney-esque…
Ergo Proxy Volume 2
This volume is largely set outside the city of Romdo, in the desolate outskirts that citizens of the oppressive regime believe are uninhabitable. Vincent Law – having fled the Romdo government’s…
Greek mythology related anime, Mnemosyne – revealed
AnimeNewsNetwork are reporting that the Japanese animation company, “Xebec”, who are a subsidary of “Production I.G.” and who specialise in TV anime working on …
Sony’s Animax launching in UK by the end of 2007?; RaptureTV
News posted at Brand Republic and on the Digital Spy community forums appears to suggest that Sony are seriously looking at launching their anime devoted TV channel “Animax” in …
Edinburgh, Inverness & Leicester; local anime-related events
This is perhaps a sure sign of anime growing in the UK, because the following post contains a lot of new information with regards to several anime and manga related events happening in the UK over…
Resident Evil CG anime; AKIRA movie from Irish director
According to various reports, CAPCOM and Sony Pictures Entertainment of Japan have joined forces to produce an original CG animated movie for the Resident Evil (a.k.a. Biohazard) franchise.…
Trick or treat? Funimation announce Fuyumi Ono’s Ghost Hunt
A midnight news report on the AnimeNewsNetwork announced that Funimation have licensed the anime adaptation of Shido Inada’s shoujo manga “Ghost Hunt”, which is in turn…
Anime UK News podcast interview with Johnny Yong Bosch
Though the majority of UK anime fandom passes through the London MCM Expo as one may treat his favourite sweet-shop, it was serious business for Anime UK News this year as we conducted our first …
The Enigma of Amigara Fault
Halloween is fast approaching and it’s time to indulge in some frightful Japanese horror. Sadly, it’s not a genre that translates well to anime and manga, but having recently discovered the abnormal…
Adult anime at the ICA
Princess, a dark anime-inspired film about murder and revenge in the porn industry is currently showing at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London as part of the Comica festival. …
Ergo Proxy Volume 1
Ergo Proxy appears, from first impressions, to be a uniquely thoughtful and reflective series, conceived within the framework of a Westernised vision of a conversely utopian and dystopian …
Tokyopop line-up live action version of Ikki Tousen
According to news emerging from Japan, global manga publisher’s Tokoyopop are pushing to produce a (presumably North American) live-action adaptation of the popular and fan-service…
New anime publisher appears in the US: New Galaxy Anime
With all the doom and gloom surrounding the US anime industry following the virtual collapse of publishing goliath Geneon, one would be fair to assume that this perhaps isn’t the best of…
More Afro Samurai on the way
It’s been widely reported that production on a brand new season of the Samuel L. Jackson voiced Afro Samurai is under way and already set to air on US TV during early 2008. Again penned by manga-ka…
Oban Star-Racers nominated for BAFTA award
Oban Star-Racers has been nominated for the Best Children’s Animation award at the 2007 BAFTAs (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) – the other three nominations are all…
Expo Oct ’07: new licenses, anime on UK TV, cosplay
This past weekend saw the London MCM Expo roll into town, unleashing hordes of cosplayers and anime fans on England’s capital city. Though (compared with previous events) there were slim…
Gun X Sword: Gun Sword
After the first two relatively formulaic and emotionally uninspiring volumes, Gun X Sword finally appears to be carving out its own niche, with a series of important revelations that both progress…
Le Chevalier D’Eon Volume 2
‘France will change. It must change!’
The opening words of Volume 2 are full of foreboding: it’s Holy Week and D’Eon and his friends are on the trail of the Russian fur merchant Vorontsov whom they…