Yahoo! Finance reports that 4Kids Entertainment has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy status. 4Kids confirmed last week that bankruptcy was an option for the company after Japanese companies
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the very cinematic opening of the 1975 TV series Wanpaku Omukashi Kumu Kumu.
Question: I may be giving too much credit, but my perception is that roughly every ten years Japan’s anime industry takes a subtle but significant step forward in
The NHK television network has released a two-minute trailer for its upcoming television series Phi-Brain: Kami no Puzzle. The adventure series about two high-schoolers that challenge dangerous “philosopher’s
Publisher ASCII Media Works has formally announced the development of an anime based on Hazuki Minase’s light novel series C³ ~ Cube x Cursed x Curious. The story
Navarre Corporation has formally announced its $24 million dollar cash sale of FUNimation to a group of investors that includes Funimation’s founder and chief executive officer Gen Fukunaga,
Tokyopop has announced plans to revamp its website on on April 26, a move which will eliminate all user-provided content on the site. In July 2006 manga publisher
Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of home video and digital rights to this month’s new Maria Holic Alive anime television series, a sequel to the 2009 Mariaholic
FUNimation has announced its acquisition of home video, theatrical, broadcast, digital, and merchandising rights to Production I.G’s 2009 anime feature film Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~. The
Warner Bros. has scheduled a July 26 domestic release for the 22 episode Supernatural: The Anime Series OVA series. The Madhouse produced anime based on the American live-action
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the opening of the 1985 TV series Showa Ahosoushi Akanuke Ichiban. The opening
Enjoy the first trailer for creator Tsuzuki Maki’s (Lyrical Nanoha manga) fantasy action anime television series Dog Days. Keizou Kusakawa (Asura Cryin’, Inukami) directs at studio Seven Arcs
A new all-ages trailer formally announces a May 2 release of the 15 Bishoujo Hyouryuuki: Minaminoshima de Uwa Uwa Donburi Ecchi Hen OVA, a third episode of the
The homepage for the upcoming Baby Princess 3D Paradise 0 OVA has released its “long version” trailer. The 3D OVA about a young man invited to start living
