Features

Brief spotlight on Yoshiyuki Tomino

Yoshiyuki Tomino was born on November 5th, 1941, and since 1963 became one of the driving forces behind anime. He began his career working on the series commonly known as Astro Boy for Osamu Tezuka’s…

• 21st December 2005
News

Anime UK News Forum Round Up

The latest instalment in our regular overview of what’s been happening on the Anime UK News Forums.

The last couple of weeks have seen a few more threads spring up on the forums, from “Anime:

• 18th December 2005
Anime Review

Planetes Volume 2

Living the hectic life of a space debris collector can be a stressful business and so to get away from Half Section for a few weeks; Tanabe, Hachimaki and Fee take a well earned vacation to the moon.The…

• 16th December 2005
Anime Review

S-CRY-ED Volume 4

Ever since the Great Uprising 22 years ago, the people of the Lost Ground have struggled to rebuild in whatever way they can. Like a child demolishing a tower of building blocks, s-CRY-ed #4 changes…

• 16th December 2005
Anime Review

Robotech: Remastered Volume 2

After doing battle with the alien forces the SDF-1 finally makes it home but the Earth government have yet to break the news of the alien threat to the general public. As another wave of Zentraedi…

• 15th December 2005
News

Manga UK £2 VHS sale

Manga Ent. UK have let us know about a VHS sale on their official site; many fan favourite titles (including the likes of Macross Plus, End of Evangelion and Bubblegum Crash) are being sold off for…

• 14th December 2005
News

Next Studio Ghibli film announced

The next Studio Ghibli film has been revealed as “Gedo Senki: Tales from Earthsea”, an adaptation of the book “A Wizard Of Earthsea” by American author Ursula Le Guin.…

• 13th December 2005
Anime Review

RahXephon

To call Rahxephon a, summarily captivating mecha adventure, or an existential science fiction drama, would be to sell the series short, excruciatingly so. This is the kind of show that defies…

• 13th December 2005
News

12th December UK anime releases

Due out today are the last few Beez releases of 2005, including the next two volumes of Wolf’s Rain, which is currently airing on Rapture TV. In a somewhat bizarre move, however, the fourth…

• 12th December 2005
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ICv2 talk to Viz Media VP

ICv2 have recently posted an indepth 4-part interview with Viz Media VP Liza Coppola in which (amongst many other things) she talks about Viz’s perspective on (Naruto) anime fansubs and…

• 10th December 2005
News

Funimation confront fansubbing

Fansubbing group Shinsen-Subs, have been contacted by American anime licensor Funimation. Fansubbing is the process where fans subtitle their own anime titles and release them for download…

• 8th December 2005