Month: February 2005

The official Japanese webpages for the upcoming Loveless, Eyeshield 21, and Gokujo Seitokai anime television series are now open. Source: Moon Phase

The Pop Japan Travel Spring 2005 tour will visit Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo, including stops at Mt. Fuji, Tokyo Tower, the Square Enix headquarters, and the Tokyo Anime

Anime News Network has published an exclusive interview with Japanese illustrator and character designer Range Murata.

The Japanese production partnership North Stars Pictures has announced the Hokuto no Ken: Shin Kyuseishu Densetsu (Fist of the North Star: New Saviour Legend) project that will consits

TV Tokyo will begin airing a new 52 episode Glass Mask (Glass no Kamen) anime television series on April 5th. The Glass Mask manga was adapted into a

The ImaginAsianTV network has announced plans to begin broadcasting the Gravitation and World of Narue anime television series on March 28th. Both series will air in Japanese language

Viz has reportedly acquired translation rights to Wataru Yoshizumi’s Ultra Maniac and Aihara Miki’s Tokyo Boys & Girls. Viz has not officially confirmed these acquisitions. Del Rey has

AD Vision has announced that its DVD release of the first 10 episodes of the 1972 Science Ninja Team Gatchaman television series will be released on June 14th.

DrMaster will release an English language translation of the first RahXephon novel on June 10th. TOKYOPOP has announced plans to release an English language translation of the Japanese

Gonzo Studios has announced development of an OAV series adaptation of Ubukata Tou’s best-selling and award winning sci-fi novel series Murdock Scramble. The anime is tentatively scheduled for

Hiroyuki Nasu, the director of the 2004 live action Devilman movie, passed away in a Tokyo hospital on February 27th as a result of liver cancer. He was

AnimeNation will be officially attending this weekend’s Megacon convention in Orlando Florida. Since the AnimeNation News Page editor will be attending the convention, there will be no updates

Anime on DVD has published an exclusive interview with AD Vision voice actress Tiffany Grant.

Although earlier this week AD Vision released an official printed retail solicitation advertising a March 8 street date for the first Full Metal Panic High-Definition DVD, the title

While manga sales overwhelmingly dominate graphic novel sales in mainstream American bookstores, their popularity in the American comic book retail market is significantly lower. ICv2 News has published