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Its that time again where avid fans Japanese Culture, Anime and Manga join forces to attend the largest event in the UK - London MCM Expo! With record sales and attendance last year, the event running from the 23rd - 24th of May is set to be the largest yet.
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Crunchyroll have added yet another title to its anime roster with Bandai confirming that the extremely popular Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion will be available to be streamed from their website. A total of 25 englished subbed and english dubbed episodes are available as of today.
Sadly this is only available to those in the [...]

Based on the unique series of books by Ursula Le Guin, this enchanting story takes place in a fantasy world of dragons and wizards. A ship is tossed by a raging sea and two dragons appear from the storm clouds, only to devour each other. This is seen to be a terrible omen that the [...]

Not long after eMagi’s post about Viz Media providing free streaming of their latest Naruto Shippuden anime a week after the Japanese Broadcast comes this massive and potentially market changing announcement from Crunchyroll. The Crunchyroll service was similar to their rivals Youtube, where they would host and publish user created content to the world. However [...]

In the long lasting fight against fansubs, Viz Media has announced that they will be streaming the latest anime episodes of the highly popular Naturo Shippuden a week after the Japanese broadcast episode! This is quite a turnover because popular groups that fansub Naturo on average take a week to turn out the subtitles so [...]

A good few months before the London MCM Expo, eMagi heard about an event in London that we previously were unaware that was taking place. Here on eMagi we like to know more about Japanese related events here in the UK and so got in contact with the organisers Ivan and Max, directly. Asking about [...]

Yen Press has announced some new releases to their collection! Yen Press is a Manga and Graphical Novel publisher that also creates a monthly anthology of their work called Yen Plus. Originally founded in 2006 it continues to grow, offering support to publish original fan created work as well as retail content such as Soul [...]

On Wednesday an announcement was made in Tokyo, Japan about a new acquisition. Universal Pictures are set to acquire Dentsu’s Geneon Entertainment early next year. For anime fans most will recognise the Geneon brand being former partners with ADV before it collapsed in November 2007.
Details are that Universal will buy an 80.1% stake in Geneon [...]

Orbital Manga, London, will be holding a special triple manga signing with guests promoting the Self Made Manga brand. The special guests are Chie Kutsuwada, Ryuta Osada, Mustashrik Mahbub from the manga visual novels Julius Caesar, As you like it and Othello! Here is the statement from Orbital Manga:
The artists Chie Kutsuwada, Ryuta Osada, Mustashrik [...]

A festival in Japan called “Itasha G Fesuta” took place on Sunday 9th in Japan which featured around 450 cars organised by a popular Japanese graphical magazine. The term “itasha” refers to cars which have been illustrated upon by anime, manga and videgame character decals. Not only cars were on display but other forms of [...]