“There is no such thing as coincidence. There is only inevitability.”
Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student with a big problem. Spirits – usually unpleasant ones – are attracted to him. They…
For those of you that are unfamiliar with Musashi Miyamoto, I’ll simply say that this is a Production IG anime (Ghost in the Shell, Kill Bill) written by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, …
British band Oasis, fronted by Noel Gallagher, are set to have their song Falling Down used as the opening theme for production IG’s upcoming anime Eden of the East, the official anime site…
Blood: The Last Vampire (AKA: Last Blood in Japan) has got a theatrical release date.
The much anticipated live-action adaptation of Production IG’s film Blood: The Last Vampire has its…
The live-action blood teaser trailer has just been released. The movie will open in Japan on May 29 (under the title Last Blood), in the United Kingdom on June 12 and then in France on June 17.…
A brand new 5 minute preview of The Sky Crawlers has been posted online for your streaming pleasure. Directed by Mamoru Oshii and animated by Production I.G, this highly anticipated science-fiction…
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a newer “version” of the original 1995 sci-fi classic by Mamoru Oshii. It has been completely remastered (in terms of visuals and sound; including a new 6.1…
A new trailer for the highly anticipated anime anthology Batman: Gotham Knight has been published online by Yahoo!. Featuring six short films animated by the likes of Studio “Tekkonkinkreet”…
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 …
Keeping up its drive to deliver more episodes on less discs, Beez offers up the final volume of IGPX, like many of its first and last entries into recent series, with five rather than the standard…
This volume begins with Team Satomi in the midst of their race with Team Velshtein, and as ever, protagonist and forward, Takeshi, is called upon to pull his own weight and that of the team (like …
It’s the final volume of the Tokyo arc and the title ‘Full Circle’ is apt in more ways than one, for not only does it refer to the direction that the main characters’ lives are taking …
An inferno of burning cherry blossoms in a public park, a white wolf, and murderous bandits from a past age; these are just some of the dangers that Hikaru must face in her quest to find her older brother…
“It is not the sword that will change the world. It is words.”
In the opening titles, we see first Saint Germain, then Robespierre writing words of power on thin air. And the words ‘revolution’ and…
This weekend is like any other for the UK-based anime fans, but over in the US, otaku are currently enjoying their first ever “New York Anime Festival”, which offers the usual mix …
With all the recent exciting news coming from Production I.G – it would seem as if Christmas has come a month too early. Several Masamune Shirow themed developments have surfaced over…
This was a title that acquired considerable notoriety among fans for allegedly passing itself off as a cash-in based on the success of the Ninja Scroll feature film. It actually has little or no…
Production I.G. picked up an award in the “cel animation” category at the recent “London International Advertising Awards” for Kazuto Nakazawa’s animated…
‘France will change. It must change!’
The opening words of Volume 2 are full of foreboding: it’s Holy Week and D’Eon and his friends are on the trail of the Russian fur merchant Vorontsov whom they…
Ghost in the Shell has risen to become a staple of both the science-fiction genre, and of anime in general, enjoying a meteoric rise from cult anonymity to widespread popularity after the onset…
