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
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