Month: August 2007

Japanese television network TBS has announced development of “Hana Yori Dango Final,” a live action feature film conclusion to the live action TV drama adaptation of Youko Kamio’s

The official homepage for the upcoming live action Fuma no Kojiro television series adaptation of Masami Kurumada’s manga is now online.

Question: Taking any possible factor into account, is there any chance at all that the Digimon series, even dub-only, will ever see the light of day in the

The first episode of Innocent Venus will be available for free online viewing from distributor AD Vision until August 23rd.

Japanese PC game publisher Cross-Net has formally announced that the 2005 adults-only superhuman battle action visual novel game Ayakashi will be adapted into an anime television series. Please

The September issue of Shojo Beat Magazine has announced that Viz Pictures will distribute the live action 2006 Love Com (“Lovely Complex”) motion picture in North America beginning

Japanese publisher Frontier Works has formally announced that Keiko Konno’s yaoi manga series Ai no Kotodama will be adapted into a live action feature film. The movie will

Question: The “zombie survival/horror” genre of entertainment has had a huge revival in the past few years. In cinema we’ve had 28 Days Later and its sequel, the

Reportedly the September issue of Shodensha’s monthly Feel Young Magazine will include an announcement that Mitsukazu Mihara’s manga series “Shigeshoshi” (“Embalmer”) will be adapted into a 12 episode

AnimEigo’s Yawara sampler DVD containing subtitled episodes 1-4 of the 124 episode TV series is now available by mail order. Customers making a purchase from AnimEigo may add

Question: I was astonished to see that Viz is coming out with a Bleach DVD boxset for episodes 1-20 in October. This will retail for less than the

Fan site Ghibli World now hosts an extensive interview with Gualtiero Cannarsi, the translator and dubbing director for nearly all of the Studio Ghibli anime released in Italy.

Question: Okay, first of all, I see a lot of drills in Japanese anime/games. Examples are Gurren Laggan, Drill Dozer (for GBA), and the Kurogane’s drill on its

Question: I’ve notice that lately female characters are getting stronger and stronger whereas male characters are getting weaker and weaker. Is this a trend, or is it just

Yen Press, which has yet to release any books in America, has revealed three new acquisitions to ICv2. Kazuto Okada’s mature audience sex-comedy Sundome Shiori Teshirogi & Yukako