Month: December 2005

Question: What are the top anime comedies of the past decade or two? When I ask this, I’m not just asking your opinion; I’m asking what comedies have

Question: I watched the first volume of the series Cyborg 009. I really enjoyed that show, and I was wondering if you can tell me when the next

Goro Miyazaki, son of famed animator Hayao Miyazaki and director of Studio Ghibli’s next announced feature film, Gedo Senki, has published his first statements about his involvement with

AD Vision has announced that the first volume of Kaleidostar: New Wings, actually the long delayed first DVD volume of the second half of the Kaleidostar TV series,

Kodansha has revealed that creator Oh! Great’s manga serial Air Gear will be adapted into an anime television series. Source: Anime News Service and Moon Phase

The official Fafner website now hosts a short streaming trailer for the Sokyuu no Fafner: Right of Left television special scheduled for Japanese broadcast on the 29th. Source:

The New York Film Critics Circle has awarded Howl’s Moving Castle its 2005 recognition for Best Animated Film. Source: Anime News Service

Gainax Studios has announced a contest for amateur artists to submist a character design for a new female character who will appear in the “Shin Seiki Evangelion Gaiden

Media Blasters has announced its acquisition of translation rights to Row Takakura’s “…But I’m Your Teacher” (Seito no Shucho Kyoshi no Honbun) and “I Can’t Stop Loving You”

Viz Media has scheduled release dates for a number of new titles and re-releases. D.Gray-man manga volume 1 will retail at $7.99 beginning May 2, 2006. The Art

Victor Ireland, the CEO of American video game localization company Working Designs, has formally announced that Working Designs went out of business some time ago. Working Designs was

Question: Why are crows or ravens seen flying and making insults? Most frequently in Naruto (or any other anime), a crow or raven flies by and starts crowing

Studio Ghibli has formally revealed that its next feature film will be “Gedo Senki: Tales from Earthsea,” based on American sci-fi writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel “A

Toei’s St. Seiya homepage now hosts a 30 second streaming trailer for the upcoming pay-per-view St. Seiya: Hades Chapter – Inferno television series. Source: Moon Phase

Last weekend two new anime movies opened in Japanese theaters and broke into the box office top ten. Futari wa Precure Max Heart 2: Yukizora no Tomodachi opened