Month: April 2008

Question: I’m not sure if I’m the only one who has really noticed it now, but in American animation, guys like Batman and Superman are against killing the

Gonzo has premiered its web anime version of Fujio Akatsuka’s 1991 gag comedy manga series Hennako-chan. Gonzo has added limited animation, spoken dialogue, and sound effects to Hennako-chan

The advertising “obi” on new copies of the sixth collected volume of Segawa Hajime’s supernatural action comedy manga series Enchained Spiritual Beast Ga-Rei announce that the story will

Japanese fan site Moon Phase reports that Production IG will produce an anime television series based on Sega’s recently announced sword & sorcery fantasy RPG World Destruction. The

New Japanese copies of author “Nisio Isin’s” 2006 two volume light novel series Bakemonogatari include an announcement that the supernatural romantic comedy will be adapted into an anime.

I noticed today that FUNimation’s new Shin Chan Season One Part One DVD set has a sticker affixed to its front that proclaims “First time on DVD!” Back

The Connecticut Record-Journal newspaper reports that 21 year old anime fan and Central Connecticut State University student Skye Lynn Budnick secretly traveled to Japan on April 1st, and

The Satelight anime production studio has announced that a newly re-animated version of its April 2007 sci-fi action television series Kissdum -Engage Planet- titled “Kissdum R -Engage Planet-”

The latest poll from Japanese entertainment research magazine Oricon reveals the answers of 900 Japanese survey participants to the question, “What is the funniest manga you’ve read?” The

Twitch now mirrors the first and new, second teaser trailers for the upcoming second live action Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro movie, “Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro: Sennen

Japanese rock star Gackt will co-star along with Josh Hartnett and Demi Moore in the Hollywood produced action film “Bunraku.” Gackt will play a samurai named Yoshi, a

Question: I am wondering if “Kite Uncut” is the fully uncut version. I am aware that there were 3 releases of Kite and that only one of them

The TV Tokyo television network’s homepage for the upcoming fifth Naruto motion picture, Naruto Shippuden: Kizuna, now hosts a new streaming teaser trailer. The film is scheduled to

CMX revealed a number of new manga acquisitions at last weekend’s New York Comic Con: Astral Project, by Garon Tsuchiya & Syuji Takeya Classical Medley, by Sanae Kana

At last weekend’s New York Comic Con, Tokyopop announced its acquisition of translation and distribution rights to the Maru-Ma fantasy novel series by author Tomo Takabayashi and illustrator