Month: December 2003

Galaxy Anime has updated to offer an exclusive interview with Chad Kime, Marketing Manager for Geneon Entertainment.

TLA Video, the American distributor of Sion Sono’s disturbing film Suicide Circle, has confirmed its acquisition of American distribution rights to Yukihiko Tsusumi’s recent film 2LDK. (The title

Anime on DVD has reported a number of unconfirmed new manga title acquisitions from Viz: Detective Conan by Gosho Aoyama Cheeky Angel (Tenshi na Konamaiki) by Hiroyuki Nishimori

Aniota News has published small screen captures of the upcoming full CG Appleseed movie taken from a recent broadcast of Japanese variety program Pooh! The program previewed footage

Hiroya Oku’s sci-fi manga serial Gantz now has its own website which includes a short anime clip, possibly hinting that Gantz may be adapted into full length anime

Based on Japanese television commercials (available here in WMV format) a Gunslinger Girl action game for the Playstation 2 is in development. The commercial seems to state that

Konami has formally announced plans to develop two Shaman King video games for the American and European market. Konami will produce an action/adventure game for the PS2 and

Question: Why aren’t there many anime related PC games? There are a bunch of great anime based games like .Hack and Dragonball Z: Budokai, but the problem is

Happy Lesson TV series DVD volume 1 will be released on February 3, 2004. The DVD will contain 5 episodes and retail at $29.98. The Cosplay Complex DVD

Media Blasters has scheduled the release of 10 Tokyo Warriors for February 24, 2004. The release will be a double disc set containing all 6 Tokyo Jushoden at

TOKYOPOP has announced that its third Rising Stars of Manga competition will run from January 1 – March 15, 2004. Aspiring manga style comic artists are encouraged to

Buena Vista Japan has announced the release of a Ghost in the Shell 2 music video collection DVD titled “Innocence no Jyoukei Animated Clips” (Sight of Innocence Animated

Impress Game Watch has published images of the upcoming Bandai produced Uchuu no Stellvia adventure game for the Playstation 2, scheduled for Japanese release on January 22nd at

Question: Where has all the shoujo anime gone? It seems that there were so many titles released specifically for boys in 2003 and only a few for girls

Although rumors have been flying since last summer, OB Planning has finally officially announced the debut of Initial D 4th Stage. The new TV series will premier as