Today sees probably the most important event the UK anime community has seen for many, many years; Naruto is launching on Jetix at 8pm. The glorious success or shameful failure of Naruto on UK TV…
UKAnime.com are reporting that Manga UK are planning a Play.com UK exclusive Collector’s Tin for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG.
The tin, which will be sold with Volume …
Otaku News have noticed that on Tuesdays at 7pm, UK digital TV channel Discovery Science UK will be airing a new technology-info show worryingly dubbed “Japanese School Girls” …
It’s an ADV dominated week for the UK anime market, with Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu! drawing to a close, and continuing volumes for three other series due out today.17 July 2006Full Metal…
New websites and new developments for internet-based UK anime fans:
NEO magazine have asked us to mention a new section of their web-forums: NEO feedback is a message board where readers can correspond…The 16th of October sees three new titles hitting our stores, including the highly rated release of The Place Promised In Our Early Days. More details on these releases can be found below.
According to ANN, a new US anime licensor named Illumitoon Entertainment Ltd has announced its acquisition of fantasy adventure series Beet The Vandel Buster and Beet The Vandel Buster Excellion…
The official website for Makoto (Voices of a Distant Star, The Places Promised…) Shinkai’s newest anime movie has gone live with three new trailers in the mix.
Byousoku 5 Centimeter…
Anime Boredom have posted a fairly lengthy interview with TokyoPop UK’s Marketing and PR Manager Saimma Javaid. The interview covers their plans for the future, including the fact that…
July’s anime DVD releases finally get underway this week, with six more titles from Beez and MVM’s catalogues due out today. 10 July 2006Crest of the Stars #3 (Beez)Gantz #5 (MVM)Gungrave…
The “manga” word has recently entered Merriam-Websters English dictionary with an definition of “a Japanese comic book or graphic novel”.
The meaning of “manga”…
Geneon (Japan) have posted a new (Windows Media) trailer for the second OVA in the new Hellsing Ultimate series (another anime adaptation of the Hellsing manga series, previously animated as…
After all the family drama surrounding Studio Ghibli’s Gedo Senki (Tales from Earthsea); Hayao Miyazaki is said to have been pleased with his son’s (Goro Miyazaki) directorial…
The new game begins; Kurono and his new buddies are transported to a traditional buddist temple and forced to face off against a huge selection of Gantz’s most fearsome monsters yet. The…
It seems Section 9 have finally found a true adversery in Gatou; the vividly disfigured chief of the Japanese police force who’s twisted face is mounted on this very DVD cover. Hiding behind…
The summer school trip is here, and for Daisuke and his friends, that means they get to spend a pleasant few days on a tropical island. Whilst there, Daisuke comes to realise that Risa is no longer…
The fighting tournament reaches its conclusion and afterwards Goei takes an exhausted Haukfu and Koukin to an old hot spring in the mountains. Whilst they relax and recover from their ordeal …
Between our ever vigilant forum users, Pinnacle Vision and Play.com, we’re able to bring you the following UK anime DVD release dates.AugustPanda Z – August 28th
SeptemberEureka…
“Manga lovers rejoice! A never-seen-before approach to manga made its debut on the Mainichi Daily News on Monday, July 3, 2006. Manglish takes some of Japan’s hottest young manga…
“ADV Films are proud to announce in collaboration with Rapture TV the return to UK digital TV of their anime catalogue, debuting with actioner Mezzo DSA. Starting on July 6th, first-run…
