A streaming trailer for Studio 4C’s theatrical anime anthology ‘Genius Party Beyond’ has been posted online. It consists of 5 short movies created by some of the most acclaimed…
Mysterious black-clad, white-haired children who have been sighted again and again over five hundred years; a lonely orphan girl who constantly draws the same picture of an unearthly landscape;…
Active Anime have recently published a joint press release from VIZ Media and Manga Entertainment announcing an “exclusive DVD distribution deal in the UK and Ireland”. Of course,…
Concluding the first series of one of the biggest anime in years, Bleach 1:2 runs right on from the precedent set in the first volume, seeing the resolution to Ichigo’s conflict with classmate…
According to information being solicited to the press, UK anime publisher MVM have licensed the 13 episode shonen-ai (boys love) comedy Gravitation (originally aired in Japan during the autumn…
Gonzo, following up their earlier claims that they intend to push ahead with the rapid distribution of anime across the web, has announced their intentions to initiate an open-pricing model…
The SCI-FI LONDON Film Festival has officially announced the schedule for its annual Anime All Nighter. Taking place at the West End Apollo Cinemas on midnight of Saturday, 3rd May, the line-up…
Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan will be hosting (on August 4 and August 5) a special concert with Studio Ghibli soundtrack composer Joe Hisaishi (including a 200-piece orchestra and 400 chorus…
Bleach is the latest in animes most prolific genre – the shonen – which typically means action and a touch of comedy to keep things light, but which, in the tradition of the Dragonball…
The relationship between Renton and Eureka runs into more problems while Norb, the Voderac priest, offers important insights into the Coralians and how their existence is tied to humans and …
Earlier today, we updated our UK DVD release schedule to cover the first half of summer 2008. These newly added releases are listed below, but keep in mind, some of them (especially those still …
When it comes to reviewing anime, one of the most frustrating tasks can be screen-capping. Sometimes you’ll remember the cool scenes, jump straight in and snap away. Job done. But with FLCL, it’s…
‘Xcomp’s Yuuenchi’ blog has posted a fascinating (English translated) excerpt from Makoto Shinkai‘s online journal in which it’s revealed that the famous…
It’s well known that the Japanese animation industry farms out a lot of its standard animation tasks to cheap labor in Korea and this often leads to the assumption that all Korean animation…
Seirei no Moribito, a fantasy adventure TV series animated by the acclaimed Production “Ghost in the Shell” IG, has been licensed by Media Blasters for US DVD distribution. The …
An anime TV spin-off from actress Milla Jovovich‘s recent sci-fi/action movie Ultraviolet is set to air in Japan during July of 2008. Animated by Madhouse, the series will be known as “UltraViolet:…
Viz Media has formally announced that it has picked up the first Bleach movie, “Memories of Nobody“, for distribution in the US. It’s now quite likely that this movie, much…
ADV have picked up the shonen action/fantasy with a card-game tie-in, Kiba, for release in North America. The series is 51 episodes long and aired in Japan during 2006. In other news, it seems the…
