Month: April 2008

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has acquired English language translation rights to the first 9 volumes of Nagaru Tanigawa’s best selling Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi novel series.

Fathom Events has announced plans to screen Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody in select theaters across America on the evenings of June 11th and 12th. The screenings

Shonen Magazine’s web page for the live action Mahou Sensei Negima television series now hosts a streaming version of the entire unaired 26th episode. Except you’ll need a

Fan site Canned Dogs reports that scans of an upcoming issue of Techgian magazine have leaked to the internet, revealing a number of upcoming announcements from adult PC

Japanese entertainment magazine Oricon has published the results of its latest fantasy poll. 900 Japanese readers responded to the question, “If you could turn into a main character

Question: Dreamworks recently got the rights to the manga/anime Ghost in the Shell. I may sound optimistic, but if a mainstream movie based on the manga comes out

Yen Press has announced its acquisition of North American distribution rights to the first four volumes of Gaku Tsugano’s manga adaptation of Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya light novels

Manga artist Kurogane Ken has announced that a three episode OVA adaptation of his 2004 two volume “yuri” erotic manga series Shoujo Sect is now in production. The

Japanese multimedia website Biglobe is offering the entire recent 24 episode Kimikiss ~pure rouge~ anime television series for free online viewing. The series’ first 12 episodes are available

Shonen Magazine has revealed that the third DVD boxed set of the live action Mahou Sensei Negima television series will include a previously unreleased/unbroadcast 26th episode. The third

Question: I don’t see any groups fansubbing Kaiba. Why not?

Space Pirate Captain Harlock creator Leiji Matsumoto has revealed to the Mainichi Newspaper that he was surprised to hear the recent announcement of plans for a Japanese/Korean co-produced

Otaku USA editor Patrick Macias has posted an audio interview with Spider-Man and X-Men co-creator Stan Lee in which they discuss Karakuridoji Ultimo and Lee’s Japanese connections. Ultimo

ICv2 now hosts an editorial from comic book retailer Steve Bennett on the success of manga in America and its influence – or lack thereof – on the