Don’t hate me for saying this… but the forthcoming Dragon Ball: Raging Blast looks surprisingly good. Wait! Let me defend that comment. What this trailer shows is a beat ’em up that makes use of a wide battle area; a city, a plane, etc. The combatants fly around, smash into things and cover far more […]
Beckii Cruel will be big in Japan
Beckii Cruel, from the Isle of Man, started posting videos of herself dancing along to various anime themes to YouTube. The 14 year old is now approaching 4 millions views and according to the British Anime Network she will now be performing live in Japan. Go Beckii!
Live action Gantz movie
According to the Anime Newsnetwork we’ll have two Gantz live action movies by 2011. They’re citing the Nippon News channel. The movies will feature Kazunari Ninomiya and Ken’ichi Matsuyama. We know Matsuyama from Death Note. Gantz is one of the few 18-rated anime movies that you can easily pick up in the UK. As well […]
Yu Gi Oh meets Pearl and Dean
This was produced just for Alcon 2009 and was shown before the opening ceremony. What do you think of the voice? Reminded me of Spongebob’s own version of this where he also sings along with the famous Pearl and Dean intro. It also reminded me why so many people prefer their anime in Japanese and […]
Halo Legends: 5 minute clip of the new Halo anime
Over the States Spike TV is has some of the forthcoming Halo Legends series. That’s right, Halo in an anime style. Hopefully the show will make it over to the United Kingdom where we’ve heard of both Halo and of anime! Tell us what you think – worthy of a transatlantic hop, or not? It […]
Interview with game designer and author Jess Hartley
Jess Hartley hit the scene in 2001, is known for her work with White Wolf (the Exalted novel “In Northern Twilight”, Skinchangers, Reliquary, The Beast That Hunts Blood and many more) as well as her horror anthology Buried Tales of Pinebox Texas. Jess is also a skilled social media networker, runs JessHarley.com, a Twitter account […]
Lucky Star: Fan video shows dancing Hiiragi sisters
We’re all now used to the wealth of impressive anime fan art but what about some impressive fan video? I don’t just mean a slideshow of stills from the anime set to some good music – I mean a CG animation of the Hiiragi sisters from Lucky Star dancing a way. It’s a slight shame […]
Star Ocean (4): The Last Hope coming to the PS3
Star Ocean had been an Xbox exclusive in Japan but Square Enix has now agreed to do a dual language release of the RPG for PlayStation. If Microsoft didn’t know from day one that this was going to happen then I can only imagine they’ll be raging at Square Enix. The Xbox has been making […]
FUNimation puts Nabari No Ou on DVD
Kunihisa Sugishima’s Nabari No Ou ninja drama will launch on DVD in the States for about $60 by the end of the month. The set contains the first thirteen episodes. Nabari No Ou is a fantasy ninja drama which follows the teenage Miharu as he’s drawn into the shady and dangerous world of ninja rivalry. […]
SXION 23 picks up from ADV films
ADV Films, a company responsible for the distribution for many fine region 1 and 2 anime DVDs, is no more. A.D. Vision – it’s parent company – is shutting it down. However, all hope it not lost as ADV Film’s assets are being sold to other A.D. Vision companies; Valkyrie Media Partners, Seraphim Studios and […]
