Month: March 2003

Question: What is Engrish?

ICv2 News has revealed that Viz plans to release Maison Ikkoku on domestic DVD in 8 twelve episode DVD mini-boxed sets beginning on July 16th. All 96 episodes

Anime News Network has published an exclusive interview with Comics One public relations representative Nicole Curry.

An announcement was made at the recent Tokyo International Anime Fair that the next anime TV series from Studio Bones (RahXephon, Wolf’s Rain) will be a samurai era

AICN has published the first look at the advance movie poster for next year’s anime movie Innocence (Ghost in the Shell 2).

Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away was awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Film at last night’s 75th Annual Academy Awards ceremony. Spirited Away is the first Japanese animated film

Anime Alberta has published an exclusive interview with Gutsoon! Entertainment Executive Vice President Michael Palmieri. The interview discusses Gutsoon’s goals, plans for collected manga graphic novels to be

The official AniMatrix homepage has posted a new 4:30 long trailer that covers all nine AniMatrix shorts. Ain’t It Cool News has published a relatively spoiler free review

The official Japanese homepage for the upcoming “bishojo hyper battle” anime TV series Ikki Tousen, adapted from Yuji Shizaki’s manga, is now online. Since the site officially opens

Question: What’s the difference between doujinshi and manga? I thought I knew, but then my friend told me that Haibane Renmei is a doujinshi, even though the artist

Japan’s Video Association held a press conference earlier this week to report on Japanese home video sales for the year 2002. Sales totaled 324,835,000,000 yen, the first year

Dark Horse has announced plans to publish a 248 graphic novel edition of Osamu Tezuka’s Lost World manga this July. Lost World, originally published in Japan in the

This year’s AnimeNEXT convention will be held at the Hilton Rye Town hotel in Rye Brook, NY on October 3-5. Guests of honor will include Voice Actors: Marc

Sandy Frank Entertainment, the company responsible for originally bringing the Gatchaman anime TV series to America in the late 1970s, has announced the establishment of a new corporation

Question: Why are there no chubby chicks in anime? I mean, what, would anime end if there was a chubby chick(s)? Why do Japanese students wear uniforms? Specifically