[2] On 13 January 2015, Animatsu announced that it had reached a licensing deal with Sentai Filmworks to distribute titles in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

[5] In September of that year, Mazandarani revealed that Animatsu and Manga UK were in the process of merging operations.

[10] In the same month, Kaleidoscope Film Distribution announced they had purchased Platform Entertainment and confirmed that they would split Manga UK off as an independent company.

[14] Funimation later began sub-licensing titles to Manga Entertainment's UK branch in late 2018, before acquiring the company on 29 May 2019.

[16] On 30 May 2019, Manga UK announced that they were co-producing the anime television series Cannon Busters with Netflix.

They stated in a press release that the distribution of digital, physical and theatrical anime would continue "without interruption".