Month: March 2003

Question: In light of the fact that Sailor Moon is now ten years old, and looking its age, do you think that the entire “magical girl” genre in

Dark Horse Comics and Digital Manga Publishing have partnered to acquire the English language translation and distribution rights to Kentaro Miura’s horror/fantasy manga serial Berserk. The manga series

TOKYOPOP has acquired the translation rights to several new manga titles: Forbidden Dance, by Hinako Ashihara was originally published in Japan in 4 volumes under the title “Tenshi

Urban Vision has apparently confirmed for Anime on DVD that the “Ninja Scroll” (Jubei Ninpucho, “Jubei Wind Ninja Chronicle”) TV series will be a 13 episode sequel to

Leiji Matsumoto’s Submarine Super 99 will premier on Japanese television on May 8th. Matsumoto will also write a new Galaxy Express 999 TV series scheduled to air on

Animated Bliss has noticed that the Reign the Conqueror DVD volume 1 insert lists Initial D as “Coming August 2003.” Suncoast Motion Picture Company claims that the Cowboy

Gainax has announced plans to release “Ayanami Ikusei Keikaku XP Edition” on April 11th. The game will apparently be an expanded re-release of the original Rei Ayanami parenting

AnimationHQ will be hosting a second chat session with dub voice actress Wendee Lee. The event will take place on Saturday, March 8th at 4 p.m. (EST)/ 1

Apparently for the final week of February, manga titles account for 40 out of the top 50 best selling graphic novels in American mainstream bookstores and retail outlets

Sony has released the first images of its upcoming fighting/action game Rise to Honor. The main character of the game is modeled after kung-fu movie superstar Jet Li.

Question: I noticed that Samurai Deeper Kyo and .hack//SIGN were not licensed (or were not announced as licensed) for distro in America until the shows had completed airing

The second short Animatrix film, Program, is now available for viewing and download from the official AniMatrix homepage. The English language version features English language dialogue. The Japanese

According to Super Techno Arts, “Something really bad happened during the authoring and manufacturing process” of the first Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures DVD. As a result, the debut DVD

Right Stuf International has announced that the first domestic DVD volume of KO Seki Beast Sanjushi will debut in America on June 24th. The KO Beast volume 1

The Central Park Media adult anime subdivision Anime18 has released its 2003 catalog in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Among the new information included: All 3 OAV episodes of