Month: May 2008

Saving the best for last, the fourth of the four erotic anime DVDs that Adult Source Media provided for me to sample was Night Shift Nurses kranke 1,

FUNimation has revealed that the third of its five new anime title acquisitions is the Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino series that recently concluded its Japanese television broadcast. FUNimation

Question: Do you think that yuri will become more popular than yaoi in America (especially with Media Blasters and Seven Seas releasing it)?

Super Techno Arts has informed us that due to an unspecified “issue” in Japan, the American distribution of the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures anime series has been ceased and

FUNimation has revealed its second of five new anime licenses to be announced this week: KenIchi The Mightiest Disciple (Shijo Saikyo no Deshi Kenichi). FUNimation has reportedly acquired

ImaginAsian Entertainment has formally explained to Anime News Network that TitleMatch Entertainment, the company retained to manufacture ImaginAsian’s DVD-on-demand releases of the Cat’s Eye, Orguss and Nobody’s Boy

Question: Comedian deities in Dragon Ball Z. An evil alien Buddha in Gantz. Is there any anime that shocked religious groups in Japan or was religiously controversial?

FUNimation has announced its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to the 2006 shoujo anime series Mamotte! Lollipop. The 13 episode series will be released as a bilingual DVD

Bandai Visual now offers the first episode of the Super Robot Wars OG Divine Wars anime series for free online viewing. The episode is only accessible with Windows

French fan site Dragon Ball le Film now hosts a photo taken from this week’s issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealing actor Justin Chatwin in his role

Question: How much creative influence do Americans have on US/Japan co-produced anime? While titles like The Animatrix, Highlander: The Search for Vengeance and Batman: Gotham Knight appear to

Toei Animation has revealed plans to customize its upcoming Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro: Nihon Bakuretsu!! anime film for the six regions of Japan that will screen the

The official Japanese homepage for the 2007 Nodame Cantible anime television series has announced that a second series, titled “Nodame Cantible: Pari Hen” (Nodame Cantible: Paris Chapter), will

Radical Publishing, the North American publisher of artist Yoshitaka Amano’s book Mateki: The Magic Flute, has revealed that Amano has plans to direct an anime adaptation of “Mateki,”

Last week, Namco Bandai Holdings publicly released its most recent financial assessment for the fiscal year that ended in March 2008. The company posted sales of 460.473 billion