During late October, UK anime fans made their bi-annual pilgrimage en-masse to the ever-growing London MCM Expo and it’s large array of exciting guests. Amongst the many dazzling sights…
Studio 4C’s movie Tekkonkinkreet is the only anime in the running for this year’s “Best Animated Feature” Oscar. These preliminary nominations will eventually …
ADVFilms.co.uk have recently released a new “media” section of their website; it contains images and videos (including cosplay) captured at the various events and conventions…
The UK’s own dedicated anime TV channel Anime Central are looking to showcase enthusiastic anime cosplayers based in the UK for a special feature set to air around the New Year holidays.…
Hot on the heels of ‘The Anime Encyclopedia’ comes this comprehensive guide to manga (in translation). Its author and compiler, Jason Thompson, is singularly well-qualified for the task, having…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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.…
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…
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 …
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…
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 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 …
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…
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…
