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The official Japanese website for Go Zappa & Sakura Takeuchi’s manga series Chocoto Sister has announced that the series will get an anime TV series adaptation.

Source: Moon Phase

The official website for the Coyote Ragtime Show anime television series is now open. The show will be produced by ufotable (Futakoi Alternative, 2×2=Shinobuden) for broadcast this summer.

Source: Moon Phase

French fan site Catsuka now hosts a downloadable 3 minute long theatrical trailer for Studio Ghibli’s upcoming film Gedo Senki (Tales of Earthsea). The video clip, recorded from an exclusive Japanese TV broadcast on the “Zoom in Super” program, is in Real Media format.

Source: GhibliWorld

Critical Mass has scheduled release dates for two new adult anime DVDs. The Rei-Rei: Missionary of Love and Vanilla Series: My Brother’s Wife (”Aniyome”) DVDs will retail at $24.99 each beginning May 30th.

Rei-Rei has previously been released in America on VHS by AD Vision and DVD from Soft Cel Pictures.

Source: Anime on DVD

Genvid L.L.C., the authors behind the book Warriors of Legend: Reflections of Japan in Sailor Moon have announced plans to host a “Warriors of Legend Tour of Tokyo,” a guided 3 day, 4 night tour of Tokyo focusing on locations significant in the Sailor Moon manga and anime. The tour will be held this June. Further details are available from the Genvid L.L.C. homepage, and a promotional video for the tour is available on Youtube.

Source: Anime News Network

Erica Friedman, president of Yuricon and ALC Publishing, will be speaking about yuri manga and lesbian Japan on March 3 as part of the Asia Pacific Queer Lecture Series sponsored by the East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The lecture will take place at Lucy Ellis, 1st Floor, FLB Building and is open to the public.

Source: Yuricon

The 2006 New York International Children’s Film Festival will open on March 11th with the world premier screening of Disney’s new English dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s classic film My Neighbor Totoro. In April the film festival will host two theatrical screenings of Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind.

In past years the New York International Children’s Film Festival has hosted the world premiers of Disney Ghibli film dubs including Kiki’s Delivery Service, The Cat Returns, and Porco Rosso.

Source: Anime News Network

Fan site Anime Boredom hosts an exclusive interview with Mr. Michael Haigney, a script writer for 4Kids Entertainment who works on adaptations of foreign animation.

Source: DBZ Uncensored 2

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JoyRide Entertainment has announced that “Transmutation,” a limited-edition binder filled with high-demand Fullmetal Alchemist Trading Card Game cards - some never seen before - will be available for purchase at select anime and gaming conventions throughout 2006 and via the FMA TCG web site. The exclusive collectable will retail at $50.

According to The Magic Box, Sega has announced plans to release a PS2 port of Melty Blood: Act Cadenza, the PC fighting game spin-off of fan created PC visual novel game Tsukihime.

Question:
Hello, John. I am a Japanese Pretty Cure fan. I am interested in asking you about “Futari wa Precure Max Heart” & Kujo Hikari. What do you think of the second series “Max Heart”, specifically compared to the first Pretty Cure? My favorite character in Pretty Cure is Hikari. She is very different from Nagisa & Honoka. So her joining them makes Precure refresh drastically. But I guess that it is quite difficult for American people to understand her personality and attitude because she is a typical Japanese woman; she is very shy; she doesn’t speak so much; she seldom expresses her feeling clearly and strongly, although her face and hair color looks Anglo-Saxon.

Anyway, I guess,”Max Heart” focuses on the Japanese ordinary part much more than the first Pretty Cure, because of Kujo Hikari, typical Japanese shy girl’s joining. Foreign fans can understand the martial scenes easily. However, I am worried whether the American people can understand the Max Heart’s ordinary scene and Kujo Hikari’s character.

I would be very happy, if you would answer my question.

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AnimeNation will be officially attending this weekend’s Megacon convention in Orlando Florida. AnimeNation will have an exhibitor’s booth in the dealer’s room throughout the weekend, and will host AN Entertainment and AnimeNation industry panels on Saturday and Sunday. Anime fans in the area are encouraged to drop by to say hello, and possibly pick up some great discounts.

A minute long streaming Windows Media trailer for the Angel’s Feather bishonen fantasy OVA series is now available from the series’ official site. An exact release date for the two episode series has not been announced yet.

Source: Moon Phase

The “Violence and Desire in Japanese Popular Culture” academic symposium will be held at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 14-15. The two day event will feature presentations by professors from Duke, Tufts, Harvard, and MIT universities, as well as a presentation by John O’Donnell from Central Park Media.

The Los Angeles based Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films has announced that Howl’s Moving Castle, along with Chicken Little, Corpse Bride, Hoodwinked, Madagascar, and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit have been nominated for the 2005 Saturn Award for Best Animated Film.

Source: Nausicaa.net