The official Japanese AIKa homepage has added a page revealing the upcoming AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission OAV series. The first episode of the new 3 episode series featuring an entirely new cast and story will premier on Japanese DVD on March 23rd.
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A sample version of the full length promotional video for FictionJunction YUUKA’s song “Kouya Ruten,” the opening theme for the current internet broadcast anime series Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto, is now available from FictionJunction YUUKA’s homepage. The video is available in streaming Real Media, narrowband Windows Media, and broadband Windows Media formats.
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Starchild has opened its official homepage for the upcoming Nagasarete Airantou anime television series.
The official Japanese homepage for the upcoming Hitohira anime television series is now open.
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Illumitoon has announced that its first DVD volume of BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo will be released on February 13, 2007.
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TOKYOPOP has announced that Planetwide Media will release a “TOKYOPOP Manga Creator” software program next spring. The $29.99 program will enable users to create original TOKYOPOP “manga” using original art and concepts in conjunction with Tokyopop characters, backgrounds, logos, icons and screen shots. Creators will be able to print out their original TOKYOPOP manga, or post them online or e-mail them.
Gonzo Digital Holdings has formally announced that its subsidiary company GDH Capital K.K. has established a “Content Firm Contribution Fund” with 650 million yen to invest in small to medium scale Japanese music, games, broadcasting, feature films, mobile content, etc. developers unaffiliated with the Gonzo company.
Type-Moon and Nitroplus, two of Japan’s most successful PC game development studios, have announced plans to collaborate on the creation of a prequel to the best selling adult PC game Fate/stay night. Fate/Zero will be set ten years before the events depicted in Fate/stay night. Details about the game will be revealed publicly at Comic Market 71, scheduled for December 29-31.
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Pop Japan Travel has redesigned its website and released dates and other information about its planned 2007 guided “otaku” tours of Japan.
Naruto will premier on the Cartoon Network in Latin America on January 1, 2007 at 22:30 (10:30 PM).
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Question:
When Kadokawa announced at Otakon last August that it had received several solicitations to license the anime series Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu for US release, I was very excited. However, we have had not heard any new details since then. With lack of details, it made me wonder if it usually took this long (or perhaps even longer) to negotiate the licensing rights to a title. How long does it usually take to negotiate the licensing rights to a title? What other elements could possibly affect the negotiations or acquisition rights? I’d read somewhere about the possibility of the US trademark issues regarding to the playboy bunny suit Haruhi wore being a factor in licensing of the title, although I don’t know if this is true or not.
Question:
Is the demand for fan service higher than it was ten years ago, or is it now at an all time low?
AD Vision has issued a formal press announcement confirming its acquisition of English language TV broadcast, home video, and merchandise rights to the Sgt. Frog (Keroro Gunso) anime franchise.
In an ICv2 interview, AD Vision CEO John Ledford confirms AD Vision’s distribution rights to all of the Sgt. Frog TV episodes, but does not confirm AD Vision’s distribution rights to the two Sgt. Frog motion pictures.
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Comic company Top Cow has announced plans to publish Kobayashi Yasuko & Sumita Kazasa’s original Japanese Witchblade Takeru manga series in America beginning in February 2007. Top Cow’s version of the manga will be re-formatted to read left to right, will be colored for the American market, and will be released in monthly American comic book format. Reportedly the extensive alterations have, “the full blessing of the original artist and the original Japanese publisher.”
Later in 2007 Bandai Entertainment will release an unaltered, Japanese format, English translated version of the manga.
Source: ICv2
Comic High Magazine has formally announced that Kirihara Izumi’s manga series “Hitohira” will be adapted into an anime television series next year. The manga series currently has 3 collected volumes.
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Anime News Network now hosts an exclusive interview with Charles Campbell, director of AD Vision’s English dub of the 2005 Bioboosted Armor Guyver television series.
