Month: June 2005

Starchild has opened its official Japanese website for the Paniponi Dash! anime television series scheduled to premier on July 3rd. Source: Moon Phase

The Japan Foundation has published an exclusive interview with manga translation pioneer Frederik L. Schodt. The extended interview, available in the current Japan Foundation Newsletter, covers Schodt’s introduction

Online anime magazine Animefringe has published its June issue. This month’s issue features a cover story on Howl’s Moving Castle including an interview with Helen McCarthy, author of

FUNimation has opened its official website devoted to the third Tenchi Muyo OAV series. The first DVD volume of series 3 will be released on American DVD July

Japanese fan site Moon Phase has reported that Rei Hiroe’s popular gunplay action manga Black Lagoon will be adapted into an anime this fall.

Anchor Bay Entertainment has officially announced plans to release the 1963 Astro Boy television series on domestic DVD; however, competing anime distributor Right Stuf International presently owns the

The Magic Box now hosts screenshot galleries of the upcoming Naruto: Uzumaki Ninden and Fighting For One Piece Playstation 2 games. Anime News Service has noticed that Idea

Question: In the light of current shift to the new high-capacity DVD formats (Blu-ray and HD), what do you think are the chances that already-released on DVD titles

Anchor Bay Entertainment has officially announced plans to release the original 1963 Astro Boy television series on American DVD beginning this November. Source: Jagged Team

Harlequin Enterprises has announced that Dark Horse Comics will publish and distribute manga adaptations of six best selling Harlequin romance novels through the United States, Canada, U.K. and

AD Vision has announced release dates for several complete series DVD sets: The Najica Blitz Tactics Collection will retail at $39.98 beginning August 2nd. The Pretear Collection will

The Digital Bits has confirmed that Media Blasters has acquired American distribution rights to the 100 episode long live action Zatoichi television series that began in 1974. The

Geneon has revealed that in the three weeks since its release, the three different American DVD editions of the Appleseed movie have a combined sales of over 85,000

The latest updates at Galaxy Anime include an interview with Bob Stoik, director of Merchandising at Nintendo, and Majesco’s Donald Mustard, Lead Designer on the Advent Rising video

Question: Is it wrong of me to be somewhat ashamed of being an anime/manga fan? I was first introduced to anime/manga about 2 years ago, and I absolutely