Over this past weekend, AmeCon 2008 was happening at the University of Leicester and brought with it several new anime licenses that UK anime fans may be interested to discover.
Beez have picked…
Following on from their online (free) streaming of ADV‘s English dubbed version of Welcome to the NHK, video streaming website Crunchyroll has continued to acquire the legal rights to…
Following news that Afro Samurai (5 episode violent action anime from 2007) generated upwards of $13 million for US anime distributors Funimation, a follow-up movie called Afro Samurai: Resurrection…
British writer and anime expert Helen McCarthy, co-author of The Anime Encyclopedia, has recently published her latest book. Descriptively titled “500 Essential Anime Movies“,…
While the worldwide popularity of the Death Note franchise (with its live action, anime and manga incarnations) continues unabated, the artist/writer team that created its original story,…
To celebrate their “how manga took over the world” exhibition, Manchester’s Urbis (M60 2LA) will be hosting a string of evening screenings of anime on most weekends through…
A trailer for Casshern Sins was posted online last week. This new anime TV series from Madhouse Studios (Ninja Scroll, Death Note) is another spin-off from 1973’s original sci-fi action…
Sasuke has finally arrived at the finals of the Chunin exam, albeit in an untimely fashion (being mere seconds from disqualification), this doesn’t really bother anyone in a significant…
With the preliminary rounds of the Chuunin exam over, Naruto and the other qualifiers are given time to prepare for the finals, with a chance to train and learn new techniques before their respective…
Following her defeat to a fellow flame haze, Shana is in no mood for other people, Especially Yuji. Meanwhile Margery Daw has recruited two of Yuji’s classmates in order to hunt down the Corpse …
Accoridng to an early listing on the HMV.com website, UK anime publisher’s MVM have snapped up J.C.Staff’s Daphne In The Brilliant Blue and will be releasing the first DVD volume…
The following Studio (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) Ghibli movies be airing on Film4 during August.
Sat., 09/08/08 at 3:20pm: The Cat Returns Tues., 12/08/08 at 3:05pm: The Cat Returns…To promote their 25th August release of Buso Renkin, Manga Ent. have published online four clips for free streaming. Having been serialised in Shonen Jump, the same magazine as Naruto and Bleach,…
A manga & anime art exhibition intended to “support and promote talented manga and anime artists” will be happening at the The Vestry House (Surrey, TW9 1SA) on 15th/16th of …
The latest issue (#34) of ImagineFX (on sale since Tuesday 29 July) features a manga-inspired cover (girl with mech) drawn by Udon Entertainment’s Saejin Oh. The issue itself contains…
“Humans are so much fun!” gleefully observes Ryuk, the shinigami, or God of Death, who has oh-so-carelessly dropped his Death Note, the notebook in which he inscribes the names of those…
When Watanuki opens Volume #7 with the line “It’s looking like good things will happen today!”, well, you just know he’s going to get into a spot of bother.
Our protagonist Watanuki still works …
‘Death Note’ (デスンート) is the story of Light Yagami and his quest to create a better and more just society for humanity than is being offered by Japanese society and those other societies…
ADV Films and LDMS have sent out a press release detailing their UK DVD release schedule for the final quarter of 2008, which has been hit by the recently announced cancellations. This new schedule…
Though it seemed inevitable that the issues surrounding ADV in the US would eventually impact on their UK activity too, a report via AnimeOnDVD has formally confirmed that the following ADV UK…
