Month: May 2006

Question: Is live action anime the new thing? They seem to be making a lot of the lately.

The official homepage for the upcoming Sky Girls OVA now hosts its trailer from the Tokyo International Anime Fair in streaming Windows Media. Source: Moon Phase

Japanese bookstore Chuosha has announced that Yuuki Obata’s romance manga Bokura ga Ita and Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata’s Death Note manga will both be adapted into anime

Ohzora Publishing, which claims to be Japan’s most prolific publisher of manga by and for females, has established Aurora Publishing, Inc., based in Los Angeles, California, with plans

The Sports Hoichi newspaper has reported that Jouji Shimura (Master Keaton, Shin Angyo Onshi, Hanada Shonen Shi) will direct an anime feature film adaptation of Nintendo’s game franchise

The official Japanese homepage for director Kenta Fukasaku’s live action film Sukeban Deka: Code Name = Asamiya Saki, an adaptation of Shinji Wada’s famous manga series, is now

Question: As we keep seeing the lines blurred as to what “anime” is, do you feel that it is important to establish that there is not one universal,

Newsarama has reported that TOKYOPOP’s “Pop Fiction” line of novels will include Otsu Ichi’s Calling You, Hiroshi Ishizaki’s Chain Mail, both to be released in January 2007, and

ToonZone now hosts an audio interview with Toonami representatives Sean Akins and Jason DeMarco. The interview covers hopes for the Toonami Jetstream online distribution of anime, plans for

Question: What anime productions have you personally seen or at least heard of that are “fully realized” in terms of content? In other words, what anime projects are

ComiPress now hosts an English translation of a Japanese interview with manga creator Leiji Matsumoto regarding the impact of the internet on manga artists. Source: Anime News Network

Active Anime now hosts a new interview with Jun Awazu, director of the full CG short film Negadon: The Monster from Mars.

The first Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters movie will stream once on YuGiOh.com on May 22 at 7pm Eastern Time. Source: Anime News Network

Yahoo Japan has reported on development of a live action Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro movie, based on the classic manga by Shigeru Mizuki. The film will star

The Chicago International Film Festival will host the American premiers of Mobile Suit Z Gundam movies 1-3, special theatrical screenings of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack, and Mobile