Along with GANTZ, Elfen Lied is touted as one of the most infamous anime series Japan has produced for a good few years. Harking back to the dark days when anime delighted in plentiful bloodshed,…
Today at US anime convention Katsucon, Funimation have announced the license for slice of life romance series Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. The series will be renamed “Rumbling Hearts” …
This is a reminder that tomorrow night (Sunday) at 11:05pm, ITV1 will be broadcasting an anime documentary in the form of The South Bank Show. For more information (including who is being interviewed),…
ADV US caused controversy earlier this week after announcing that their new English subtitled-only DVD release of Prefectural Earth Defense Force will be one of their “web exclusives”-…
Continuing our obsession with running Ghost in the Shell related competitions, here we can offer you one of three copies of Mamoru Oshii’s much anticipated follow-up to his 1995 original…
“Am I alive or dead?” Kurono wonders as he and his new friends stumble through the streets of late night Tokyo, confused and upset by the previous hours of violent onslaught. Having…
Equal parts ideological science fiction and heartfelt drama, this tight third volume of Planetes continues to forge ahead with its touching ambition of human struggle in the not so familiar …
Three men were arrested in Japan on Tuesday under suspiscion of illegally scanning, uploading and sharing manga (“Slam Dunk,” by Takehiko Inoue is an example of what they were posting)…
According to ANN, it has been announced via their parent company Navarre that Funimation have licensed Crayon Shin-Chan. The 400+ episode series is set to launch sometime in 2007. UK cable and…
It has recently emerged that Radiohead’s song “Paranoid Android” will be the “main theme” of Ergo Proxy (not the opening or ending song, but rather heavily …
Just three anime DVDs were released in the UK today, including the latest instalments of Wolf’s Rain and Full Metal Alchemist, both currently airing on Rapture TV. According to Play.com,…
Animetion are reporting that Maile Flanagan, the English dub voice actress of Naruto (from the anime series Naruto), will be attending May’s London Expo event (May 27th – 28th).…
ADV UK have sent us over a couple of press releases, one talking about February’s “J-Pop Go!” night (a popular London-based feast of Japanese music) which promises to feature…
On February the 28th, Sky TV will restructure it’s electronic program guide (EPG)- resulting in many channels changing numbers and categories being added, modified or removed. Of particular…
Production I.G. have posted English language details of their newly announced “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Individual Eleven” OVA.
“Unlike The Laughing Man,…
Despite being nominated for three awards at the 33rd annual Annie Awards, Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle walked away from the ceremony empty handed. The awards were largely…
The Production I.G website recently published a three part (English translated) discussion with the major creative forces behind 2004’s period drama Otogi Zoshi, taking a retrospective…
For those of you who are either fans of good art or are simply interested sampling our unique community, we have just posted the first few pages of Jim Tzu’s Anime UK News forum comic strip…
Animenation are reporting that a new anime in the popular .hack series has been announced. The anime is entitled .hack//Roots and will begin to air in Japan in April. The anime is set to be 26 episodes…
Four anime DVDs were released in the UK today, including the long-awaited closing instalment of Adventures of Mini-Goddess, and the first volume of Gonzo’s Samurai 7, both courtesy of…
