For the first time in over five years, legendary anime soundtrack composer Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop, GITS: Stand Alone Complex) will be performing live in concert, the only snag for UK fans being…
In recent weeks nearly a dozen manga scanslators and anime fansubbers have been arrested in Japan and Poland; while these were unrelated incidents, both stories appear to indicate a progressively…
With Paprika fast approaching its limited theatrical run in the US, director Satoshi Kon has sat down with the New York Times to discuss the movie and its subversive pscyhological themes. The …
Much to his own delight, anime-harem master Ken (Love Hina) Akamatsu has recently announced that Negima! will be getting a live action adaptation (presumably TV series) in his native Japan! …
Now that Harry’s henchmen have been all but vanquished, Millenion’s stranglehold on the city has crumbled into nothing but dust. Looking to avenge his old friends and settle old scores, the scarred…
For many fans the original Bubblegum Crisis OAV was a genre-defining series: following Otomo’s seminal Akira into overseas popularity and combining futuristic cityscapes with good…
Burning the Past
The first two volumes of ‘Otogi Zoshi’ have followed Hikaru’s adventures as she travels from clan to clan to find and bring back to the capital the precious legendary stones called…
Welcome to the latest version of Anime UK News; but “what’s changed?” you may ask; the layout is the same, but behind the scenes Anime UK News has been transformed into a fully functional,…
Via a press release, Optimum Releasing (a.k.a Optimum Asia) have announced that they have acquired two new anime movies for UK DVD release on 3rd September; Jin-Roh and Bravestory. More information…
Requiem from the Darkness is the story of Momosuke Yamaoka, a young author collecting tales of the supernatural (the majority of which he experiences first hand), to compile in his book, ‘the…
The Amazon retail website in the United States has been selling a bootleg version of the Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars television series as the “Sailor Moon Sailor Stars: The …
The American voice actor Dave Wittenberg (who plays Kakashi in the Naruto TV series) will be making a surprise appearance at the London Virgin Megastore event this coming Monday (May 21st).
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Shinichi Watanabe (the director, writer and actor who brought us the world of Excel Saga, Nerima Daikon Brothers, Gravitation & more) annouced at a special event in Houston, Texas last night…
This is something anime fans in the UK have been requesting for years, and finally, ADV UK have come up with the goods in securing a 2hr “Anime Network” programming block on UK TV. Starting…
Industry panel reports from this years Anime Central convention held in the USA have been made available.
These events were a chance for fans to hear direct from some of the leading anime and manga…
Metrodome (the UK distributor of Transformers dvds) have announced that on June 4th 2007, an ‘Ultimate Edtition’ of the animated Transformers movie will be released on dvd.
This…
An MVM “trailer reel” has been published on the BBFC website and amongst the lengthy list of previews, it contains two new (previously unannounced) anime series. Both Black Cat …
According to a press release posted this evening by AnimeOnDVD.com, ADV Films (US) have acquired four new GONZO anime series; the high school and fashion-focussed horror “Red Garden”,…
AOL began offering Bubblegum Crisis, the first anime series on its In2TV online video service, on May 2. The entire dystopic science-fiction series is available for free streaming with a compatible…
The film review archive website Rotten Tomatoes has posted a special feature article that arranges, from worst to best-reviewed, the 94 movies in its database that were adapted from comics or…
