Back in November 2012 MCM announced Scotland Comic Con. We’ve had little in the way of updates since then although I can confirm that Geek Native will be ticket holders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOBRoKFd0kE In this video Jerome Mazandarani, Head of Marketing and Acquisitions at Manga UK, announces Sword Art Online will be imported to the UK on […]
Anime Limited reveal the anime charts for the UK
Anime Limited, the latest anime buyer and disbutor in the UK, has published the top ten best selling anime titles in the UK in January. In an earlier post they shared the top 10 for 2012 and gave very rough estimates of the number of units shipped. The post suggests demand for Anime DVDs and […]
Ninja Scroll Steelbook (limited edition) trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ4-uxEq4wE Ninja Scroll is coming to Blu-ray. Hoo-ray! It’s a digitally transfered edition and looks far more crisp than I’ve ever seen it before. The Steelbook is a combination Blu-ray/DVD set, with a 20 page booklet and exclusive commentary by Director Yoshiaki Kawajiri. What works for this trailer is that they take the time to […]
Scotland Loves Anime confirm 2012 Winter schedule
The art festival Scotland Loves Animation is back for both an Edinburgh and Glasgow run in October. The standalone festival is backed by Creative Scotland, The Japan Fundation, has a media partner in The Skinny and sponsored by Manga Entertainment and Kaze / Viz Europe. Glasgow: 12th to 14th October At the GFT Blood-C The […]
Manga apologise over Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt DVD flaws, will re-author
Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt is a popular anime produced by Gainax. It follows two angels, Panty and Stocking, kicked out of Heaven for bad behavior. They are cast out into Daten City where, under the instruction of Reverend Gatherbelt, they have to battle Ghosts and collect Heaven Coins in order to get back into […]
E3: One Piece Pirate Warriors
The mammoth anime and manga series One Piece made an appearance at the 2012 E3. Bandai Namaco have One Piece: Pirate Warriors ready for a 2012 release on the PlayStation 3. Luffy and his crew are available for online and offline co-op missions. The game allows players to be Luffy, Zoro, Nami and other pirates […]
The top 100 selling manga in Japan this year
Japanese entertainment hub Oricon have published two lists on which manga have sold the most in the first half of this year. There are plenty of names which will be familiar to western audiences as well as titles to watch out for. The first list shows the 10 most purchased series. One Piece [13,833,116] Naruto […]
Win Manga loot at MCM Expo
May 25 to 27th at the Excel in London is MCM Expo aka Comic Con London. This is the largest pop culture festival in the UK with cosplay, a games expo and a whole comic village. Noel Clark will be there, stars from Teen Wolf, Once Upon a Time and Grimm along with C-3PO star […]
New NEO – site revamps ahead of 100th edition
NEO Magazine is the UK’s longest running publication for anime, manga and Asian culture. The magazine founded in 2004 and will soon reach it’s eight anniversary and publish its 100th issue. That’s worth knowing because Uncooked Media, the owners, are planning on running a series of competitions online to celebrate. However, today’s anime fans – […]
Warner Bros pushing ahead with Bleach live action movie
Warner Bros have bought the rights to do a live action movie based on the Bleach manga. The news comes in the same month as it was announced the anime TV series will come to an end. Bleach is huge in Japan. Variety, who reported first on the movie, remind us there are some 75 […]
