| Editorial: Naruto and The Future of the UK Anime Industry | Sat, 22 Jul 2006 |
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"Today sees probably the most important event the UK anime community has seen for many, many years; Naruto is launching on Jetix at 8pm. The glorious success or shameful failure of Naruto on UK TV will shape the future of the UK community- success means more anime on TV, more DVDs, more magazines, more fans, more everything; the unthinkable prospect of Naruto's failure will mark the end of the so-called "glory days" and see the UK community slump back into a decadent, poor-to-mediocre existence; an industry that scratches its living off of the hardcore DVD buyers. If Naruto fails to bring in the viewers for Jetix, you can forget about seeing anime on a high profile TV channel for a long time." [Read the full editorial] |
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Throughout the multitude of different worlds and dimensions, she is known by many names, such as ‘The Dimension Witch’ or ‘The Far Eastern Witch.’ ..
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I read The Anime Almanac 's recent essay with a great interest. Effectively titled "Greg Ayres and the Fight Against Fansubs", it presents an industry-biased perspective on..
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Following on from the death of Elena and Raki becoming Claire’s cook they both travel to Rabona which is a holy city where there is a huge religious community. A Yoma is..
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Bringing the series past the midway point and with a greater emphasis on the story, volume five is probably the most informative and forward-moving so far.
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