Lupin III is one of the longest running anime franchises in Japan. Spanning over forty years with three TV series, yearly television specials and a series of feature films with Studio Ghibli’s…
According to a news report published by Eyeonanime.co.uk, UK distributor Manga Ent. have struck a deal with US anime publisher Funimation to release the following anime series in the UK on DVD:…
In a recent article published on the NYTimes.com website, US comic book publishers Marvel Entertainment (famous for their superhero comic series like Spiderman and X-men) and the anime studio…
Manga Ent. have uploaded 6 streaming clips of their violent vampire action anime Hellsing Ultimate. The footage has been sliced from the first two volumes, both of which are due out on the 13th …
As is fairly traditional in Japan in the wake of a movie released by Hayao Miyazaki, anime director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) was asked to share his opinions on Miyazaki‘s Ponyo on…
Manga Entertainment have signed up with SCI-FI-LONDON to join their new OKTOBERFEST event, which will be held on the 3rd of October with screenings of Strait Jacket and Hellsing Ultimate. A full…
Anime soundtrack composer Yoko Kanno, well-known for her work on the likes of Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne and Wolf’s Rain, will be lending her voice to a character in Dimension Bomb (directed…
The first chapter of Bakuman, the latest manga from Death Note creator’s Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, has been released online for free (translated into English) via the Japanese Shonen…
The last anime of the seminal anime and manga creator Osamu Tezuka was left unfinished at the time of his death on February 9, 1989, but nearly twenty years later, his son Macoto Tezka will return…
Artist Yoshitoshi ABe has published his latest dōjinshi manga (self-published comic, 53 pages in length) on iTunes in both Japanese and English. You will need an Apple iPhone or Apple iPod Touch…
Reviewing Ergo Proxy has actually been a pleasure, and, in the same sense, I imagine that most people making the informed decision of buying into the series are inevitably going to take something…
Yotsuba&! chronicles the life of Yotsuba Koiwai, a five year old girl that has just moved to a new neighbourhood with her father, who is simply called Mr Koiwai. We follow Yotsuba as she meets…
It’s a high school story of unrequited love as old as time: tough guy Harima has a crush on the charming yet utterly air-headed Tenma, but she has a crush on the distant Karasuma and he only seems to…
In the first feature length outing of the now forty year old master thief Lupin the Third we are introduced to the protagonist straight away but there’s only one problem, he’s been…
Guts carries out the mission Griffith set for him but events take an unexpected and bloody turn. Unfortunately nobody has much time to dwell on the ramifications because the Band of the Hawk are…
Out of a strong Del Rey summer list, I’ve selected a few of the titles that appealed to me, hoping that there’s something here to please most tastes!
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Black Lagoon rounds off the First Barrage with rip-roaring conclusion to the Unstoppable Housemaid arc before following the crew as they embark on a mission set by the Triads that pits them against…
Based on the Japanese cinema classic by director Akira Kurosawa of the same name, Samurai Seven is a retelling of the famous story of a group of samurai hired to protect a poor village from the bandits…
We present to you our thoughts and feelings on this one particular (and rather special) scene in Spirited Away, the train scene. For those not in the know, Spirited Away is a 2001 fantasy anime from…
