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 […]
Xbox TV in the UK
Yesterday Microsoft gave us some news about the “a new era in television”. The Xbox will be getting another dashboard revamp and we’ll be getting an on demand TV service. Don Mattrick, president of Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft, said in a press release; Combining the world’s leading TV and entertainment providers with the power […]
Big anime sale as Zavvi celebrate Manga’s 20th anniversary
This blogger has just bought a huge amount of anime from Manga in the Zavvi sale. Okay; I’ve spent a load but I’ve saved a fortune too. To illustrate just how into this sale Zavvi are – they’ve even put together a special landing page. In fact, I’ll admit that I’m a little concerned that […]
Blade – the daywalker’s anime trailer
Madhouse, Marvel and Animax have teamed up to put together an anime version of Blade. Is it about time? Did you know Blade first made a comic book appearance back in 1973 when he appeared in The Tomb of Dracula #10? Wikipedia could be tricking me for all I know; he feels a far younger […]
Uniqlo swag bag with Edinburgh We Love Anime festival
Here in sunny Edinburgh the Filmhouse will be hosting another We Love Anime festival. There’s a few good names involved; Scotland Loves Animation, Manga Entertainment, Kaze, Optimum Releasing and Beez. There are four films in the anime weekend. There’s Laputa: Castle in the Sky, King of Thorn, Summer Wars and Sword of the Stranger. Tempted? […]
Huh-uh! Dragon Ball 2 – Dragon Ball reboot
What did you make of Hollywood’s Dragon Ball movie? If you are a fan of the Dragon Ball anime series did you like it? If you weren’t a fan of the Dragon Ball anime series did you like the movie? I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest the answer is – […]
InuYasha: Curtain of Time concludes the manga
Rumiko Takahashi‘s highly acclaimed InuYasha ran from 1996 to 2008 in Japan. VIZ Media has announced that the final issue of the English manga will conclude on the 11th of January this year with issue 56: Curtain of Time. InuYasha, a half-demon, encounters Kagome a modern-day high school girl after she’s pulled into Japan’s ancient […]
