Month: July 2010

Question: Why can’t I get more “artsy” stuff in America? Examples: Mind Game, Kaiba, Genius Party, pretty much all Studio 4°C’s output.

Anchor Bay Entertainment has revealed word that its subsidiary Manga Entertainment will domestically distribute Madhouse & director Takeshi Koike’s sci-fi racing anime movie Redline. The film will open

Seven Seas Entertainment has formally announced its acquisition of translation rights to three new manga titles. Amnesia Labyrinth, from Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya creator Nagaru Tanigawa, is an

The homepage for the hybrid anime & live action Kaidan Restaurant motion picture has added a 1:14 full trailer. The movie spin-off from the current anime television series

Limited editions of the tenth compiled volume of Kanan Minami’s shoujo romance manga series Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu (Today Love Begins) will include the series’ second OAD. Like

Visual novel game development studio minori has formally announced that it is presently negotiating with English language fan translation group No Name Losers (NNL) about the possibility of

The homepage for last season’s Angel Beats television series has added the full length 5 minute music video for Girls Dead Monster starring LiSA’s song “Day Game.” Source:

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the 1998 gag comedy Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoiyo! Masaru-san. The

The homepage for the Tezuka Osamu no Buddha -Akai Sabaku yo! Utsukushiku- (Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha -The Red Desert! It’s Beautiful-) anime movie trilogy has added a streaming teaser

The homepage for the Heartcatch Precure! Hana no Miyako de Fashion Show … Desu ka!? (Heartcatch Pretty Cure: It’s Miyako’s Flower Fashion Show!?) motion picture has added a

The Electromagnetic Wave independent artist group has announced that its 2008 OVA Kowarekake no Orgel (Half-Broken Music Box) will screen theatrically in Tokyo and Osaka on September 11

The homepage for director Shinsuke Sato’s (Princess Blade, Oblivion Island) two live action Gantz movies is now streaming a teaser trailer. The first of the two film adaptations

French fan site Cobraworld reports that French director Alexandre Aja (Haute Tension, Mirrors, The Hills Have Eyes) plans to start work on a live action film adaptation of

Takeshi Arashida and Eiji Hashimoto’s manga series TOKYO23 is getting a five episode live action television series adaptation. “Tokyo23: Survival City” will star 20 year old actor Yuya

A Wall Street Journal article about America’s seeming lack of concern over unlicensed distribution of copyrighted Japanese manga in America is especially interesting because of its revelation that