TBS has opened its official website for the anime TV series premiering in October, Rozen Maiden. The official website for the Zipang anime TV series is also up now, but it doesn’t contain any content yet.
TV Tokyo has opened its official website for the October premier anime TV series Yakitate!! Japan.
Source: Moon Phase
The official Japanese homepage for the Re: Cutie Honey OAV series now hosts a new 2 minute long streaming Real Media trailer for the first episode.
Source: Moon Phase
According to this week’s Bookscan list of best selling graphic novels in American bookstores, translated manga accounted for 47 out of the 50 top selling volumes. The 37 best selling graphic novels in America this week were all English translated Japanese comics.
Source: ICv2 News
Question:
Is going on to more than 100 episodes for an anime tv series a rare thing nowadays? Series such as Dragonball, Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2, and Yu Yu Hakusho all had more than 100 episodes. Thing is, they are older titles. Lately I noticed most anime series end around 55, 26, even 13 episodes. There are some rare ones such as Inu Yasha, One Piece,and Naruto still continuing. But most don’t seem to have many episodes. Why is that?
Shogakukan has announced that the anime TV series adaptation of Takuya Mitsuda’s baseball manga Major will premier this October.
Source: Moon Phase
The official Japanese website for the Ryusei Sentai Musumet anime TV series is now open. The anime series is scheduled to premier in October.
Source: Moon Phase
Animate TV has announced that the first episode of the Tactics anime TV series, based on the manga by Meitantei Loki Ragnarok creator Sakura Kinoshita, will air on October 5th.
Source: Rakuga Kidou
According to the Hatena message board, Fuji TV has announced that the network will only broadcast Samurai Champloo through episode 17. The complete 26 episode series will be broadcast on BS digital satellite television.
Source: Rakuga Kidou
Question:
Why is it that manga is so expensive? $9.99 is an awful lot for one book to cost. Especially seeing as how the pages are smaller and it is not in color. Even though a manga contains more pages than a comic book it still makes no sense because the size of the pages makes manga so small. I love to read manga but often can’t afford it. Can you get some real answers to this overpricing fiasco that had plagued otaku and fanboys for far to long?
The official Japanese website for the Beck TV series is now open. The drama about a teenage rock band will premier in Japan in October.
The official Japanese website for the two episode Haru wo Daiteita yaoi OAV series is now open. The two 30 minute episodes will be released on February 25 and April 29, 2005. Each DVD will retail at 4,800 yen.
Source: Moon Phase
The Magic Box now hosts 3 pages of screenshots from the American produced Robotech: Invasion game for the PS2 and Xbox. The game is scheduled for release in October.
Bandai Games now hosts a streaming Quicktime trailer for the November American release of the Playstation 2 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex game.
Source: Jagged Team
Question:
Is there such a thing as an “underground” anime? Like many movies are called cult classics or whatever. Are there any anime series or movies that are less recognized by mainstream anime fans but still have a strong fan-base?
Right Stuf International reports that Viz will release the first graphic novel of “Tough” on December 29th. Since Viz has not provided any official detail on this title, fan speculation is that the manga is Tetsuya Saruwatari’s Koko Tekken-den Tough.
Central Park Media has released the 3 episode anime OAV adaptation of the Tough manga under the title “Shootfighter Tekken.”
Source: Anime on DVD
Canada’s YTV network has officially announced that Superior Defender and Gundam SEED will premiere on Friday September 10th at 7pm and 9:30 pm respectively.
Source: Anime on DVD
