Month: May 2009

Anime Expo is now seeking volunteer maids and hosts to staff its first AniMaid Café. Requirements are: Must be at least 18 years of age or older Must

60 year old manga creator, essayist, and poet Murasaki Yamada (birth name Mitsuko Shiratori) passed away in a Kyoto hospital on Tuesday at 4:16 a.m. Yamada’s first published

The Hunger Pains Magazine blog has secured the amazing first trailer for director Isaac Florentine’s upcoming action film Ninja. The movie stars Scott Adkins, the stuntman actor most

Frank Marshall, producer for Disney’s English language adaptation of director Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, reports that the first American trailer for

Despite the June 30 DVD and Blu-ray release of the Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li movie being a special edition 2 disc DVD release and 3 disc

ADV Films has apparently picked up domestic distribution rights to four anime series previously distributed by now defunct Central Park Media. Now and Then Here and There, World

Anime studio Mushi Production, in association with Crunchyroll, has launched a translating competition with the aim of securing a skilled translator to subtitle the 1986 TV anime Wonder

A new 2 minute long trailer for Kamikaze Douga’s full CG short anime film Amanatsu is now available on Japanese video hosting site eyeVio. The new trailer features

Continuing its “Kadokawa Tuesdays” series, Crunchyroll has announced streaming of the Mail and Onmyoji films, and all three volumes of Kadokawa Mystery & Horror Tales. All three titles

Gametrailers now hosts the trailer for the upcoming Wii survival horror game Kyofu Taikan: Ju-on (Experience Fear: The Grudge). The game features the involvement of Ju-on film franchise

Screen Daily reports that director Shinya Tsukamoto has finished principle photography on his third “Tetsuo” film after a year of shooting not a peep of this production leaking

Question: What’s your personal opinion of Hetalia? Do you think it’s too controversial to be published in the US (either the manga or anime)? Do you think the

The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA) has opened public voting for the nominees in the 2009 SPJA Industry Awards. Winners will be announced during the

The Asahi newspaper reports that Yasuo Yamaguchi, managing director of The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA), recently described Japan’s anime industry as a “bubble that burst several years

The Japanese government has established plans to launch a “Contents Overseas Development Fund” to invest money in the international promotion of Japanese pop culture – particularly anime and