The cover of the January issue of Monthly Ikki magazine announces that an anime TV series adaptation of Natsume Ono’s samurai drama manga series House of Five Leaves
The Japanese Moon Phase comments site reports uncited word that fourth season of the Ikkitousen anime series, titled Ikkitousen XX (Ikkitousen Xtreme Xecutor) is now in development. Reportedly
Enji Arai’s light novel Sugar Dark: Umerareta Yami to Shoujo (Sugar Dark: The Buried Darkness and the Girl) was awarded a prestigious grand prize at the Kadokawa Shoten
Prolific lyricist Toshio Oka passed away due to acute kidney failure in a Tokyo hospital on Tuesday at 4:02 a.m. He was 92. Oka composed the lyrics for
FUNimation has announced its acquisition of domestic translation & distribution rights to the first 12 episode Sekirei television series, both seasons of the Tetsuwan Birdy Decode TV series,
FUNimation has hired former president of Austin, Texas-based animation studio Boomstar Inc., Chris Moujaes as Director of Original Entertainment. Moujaes, who has extensive experience in developing international TV
Veteran manga/anime creator Leiji Matsumoto’s current manga serial Out of Galaxy Koshika will debut in anime form as a music video for Queen’s classic 1975 song “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
An anonymous post on the Japanese 2chan message board cites a photograph of a poster announcing an anime adaptation of Hiroshi Shiibashi’s supernatural action fantasy manga series Nurarihyon
The Wall Street Journal’s new article “Discontent Seeps Into Japan’s Anime Studios” reminds us that artists employed by Japanese anime production studios remain underpaid and under appreciated.
A fire at the headquarters of Japanese bishoujo game developer Circus on Sunday, November 22 partially destroyed the office. Reportedly approximately half of the office has been damaged.
Japanese entertainment producer/distributor Avex has officially released the first 5 minutes, and a 6 minute scene, from new anime film Mai Mai Miracle (Mai Mai Shinko to Sennen
The official Japanese website for the next year’s Trigun: Badlands Rumble motion picture now features a streaming teaser trailer. The film based on Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun manga is
The official website for the upcoming Katanagatari anime television series now hosts a new 15 second TV spot (in 3 slight variations for the Fuji TV, BS Fuji,
