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The anime-orientated video streaming website <a href="http://www.crunchyroll.com/">Crunchyroll</a> has signed new agreements with Japanese officials for the free video streaming/pay-to-download rights of two new anime series. Mecha series<em> <a...

MVM Films have circulated four streaming video clips of their soon to be released (13th October) movie <em>The Adolescence of Utena</em> (a.k.a <em>Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie</em>), a romantic drama from 1999 which is itself an adaptation of the original <em>Revolutionary Girl...

The live action<em> Death Note 2: The Last Name</em> will be released on UK DVD on the 13th of October (from 4 Digital Asia) and to help promote the film, a trailer been published online for your previewing pleasure. <em>The Last Name</em> is the concluding half of the live action <em>Death...

Earlier in September, UK newspaper The Guardian <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/19/animation">published an article</a> profiling the experimental, adult-side of the reowned anime/manga creator Osamu Tezuka. Imaginatively titled "<a...

The National Media Museum of Bradford (West Yorkshire) will be hosting a sequence of four screenings of <em>Howl&rsquo;s Moving Castle</em>, director Hayao Miyazaki&rsquo;s (family friendly) fantasy anime from 2004. Dates are as follows: <ul> <li>Sat, 25 Oct - 10:30 at Pictureville...

Anime UK News have received a press release from <a href="http://www.grandcosplayball.com">The Grand International Cosplay Ball</a>, an event that's happening on the evening of November 30th at The Clapham Grand in London. Quotes from this press release have been copied in below, but if you're...

I've just seen this pretty cool site. It's essentially a "live" commentary from the New York Anime Festival going on right now. Check this URL to see what I mean: http://bayoab.info/live/live2.php?panel=0&refresh=1 It's just a nice, easy way to follow the events and panels at the...

Aion. You're very close to the line right now. Either stop being so rude to people, or you're out, again.

The point is, they care enough about this stuff to be reading a site like AUKN and reading all of the comments in this thread. Calling them 'Mangle' is a derogatory term that denigrates all of that effort they are making to please you. They might have made an error, but it was good intentioned...

Mainly, I think this strategy is in place to guard against reverse importing. If we did get a better deal than the rest of the world, Japan and US based anime fans might start importing our release over investing in their own, and they rely on those markets to keep them afloat. We are just the...

I've been asked to post this message by Jerome Mazandarani (Acquisitions and Marketing Manager) at Manga Entertainment, who is "very upset" with the situation and some of the comments in this thread.

Received this press release earlier today: Will be posting news on it later this evening.

If you guys are looking for serious WWII-era anime, I'd suggest taking a look at the trailer for The Sky Crawlers, which is precisely a bunch of teenagers fighting off 'invaders' in a very realistic, WWII-era style.

It's been years now since I first saw the Honey & Clover OP. Unfortunately, I didn't know it was created by Nagi Noda until this news surfaced yesterday, but suffice to say that she will be a great loss. The quirky style and bubbly energy of that opening theme has remained with me for a long...

I'm sure someone will release Sky Crawlers over here in good time... Prime suspects being either Manga Ent. or Optimum, even still, it's probably my most anticipated anime right now and I'm dying to see it, so importing might be an option. I've been looping the soundtrack for the last week and...

Running from 27 August to 6 September was the prestigious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Film_Festival">Venice Film Festival</a>, the oldest film festival in the world. <em><strong>Hayao Miyazaki</strong></em> with his film '<em><strong>Ponyo on the Cliff by the...

Production I.G's sci-fi drama <em><strong>The Sky Crawlers</strong></em> (the latest anime film to be directed by <em>Mamoru Oshii</em> (<em>Ghost in the Shell</em>, <em>Innocence</em>)) <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991789.html?categoryId=1050&cs=1">has been licensed</a> for a...

Though it has been out in Japanese cinemas for no more than a couple of weeks, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-09-08/report-detroit-metal-city-gets-hollywood-remake-offers">reports on Anime News Network</a> are talking about unnamed Hollywood movie studios showing an interest...

Nagi Noda, the director of the memorable first opening theme for Honey & Clover (see video link below), as passed away, aged 35, due to on-going complications following a traffic accident in 2007. [<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBGg9yZKGxE">Video of Honey & Clover OP @ YouTube</a>]...

World renowned Japanese artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami"><em><strong>Takashi Murakami</strong></em></a>, famous for cultivating the satirical <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superflat">Superflat</a> movement, has directed the animated music video for the song...