Month: August 2010

Rina Aiuchi to Retire

Popular and successful 30 year-old Japanese pop vocalist Rina Aiuchi has unexpectedly announced plans to retire from the entertainment business, partially for health reasons. Aiuchi will give her
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Opening A Day

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the interesting fourth opening of the 1989 Ranma ½ television series. The theme
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Sentai Acquires GS Mikami

Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to the 45 episode Ghost Sweeper Mikami television series from 1993. Manga Entertainment has previously released the GS
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Opening A Day

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the 2008 Minamike Okawari television series. The theme song is
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KamiNomi OAD Announced

Limited edition copies of the 10th collected volume of Tamiki Wakaki’s romantic comedy manga Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai (The World God Only Knows) will include a bonus
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House Meets Black Jack

Geneon Universal Entertainment has begun streaming two commercials that use Osamu Tezuka’s famed unlicensed surgeon character Black Jack to promote the Japanese DVD release of the fourth season
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Mage Movie Optioned (Again)

Watchmen movie producer Lloyd Levin has acquired the rights to film a movie adaptation of comic artist/writer Matt Wagner’s acclaimed 1984-1986 comic mini-series Mage: The Hero Discovered. Levin
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Opening A Day

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the first opening of the 1988 racing anime television series F. The theme
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