Month: March 2008

Manglobe, the animation studio responsible for Samurai Champloo and Ergo Proxy, has announced its next anime series. Michiko to Hatchin (“Michiko & Hatchin”) will be an adventure series

The official Yasai no Yousei N.Y. Salad anime television series homepage has announced that a second series will premier on the NHK Educational network on March 31st. The

The official homepage for TV Osaka’s “Anime Lobby” program has announced that a fourth Onegai My Melody anime television series will premier on April 6th. The Moon Phase

According to the Japanese Moon Phase Message Board, the long running Shima Shima Tora no Shimajiro children’s anime television series, which has been airing since 1993, will debut

According to the Japanese Moon Phase Message Board, a second Sugar Bunnies anime television series will debut next month. The first series premiered in April 2007.

Veteran voice actor Taichirou Hirokawa passed away on March 3 at the age of 68 after succumbing to cancer. Hirokawa may be best known to anime fans as

Question: With the format war now decided how long before anime starts adapting its title to Blu-Ray in mass?

The Speed Grapher anime television series will begin airing on the Independent Film Channel on March 7 at 11 PM Eastern. Source: ICv2

An official Japanese website has opened to announce the April premier of a live action television adaptation of Hashiba Maki’s supernatural manga series Tokyo Ghost Trip. The manga

The Walt Disney Company has announced plans to work with Japanese anime studios to develop new animated programming for Japanese television broadcast. Disney will collaborate with Madhouse on

Question: It bothers me that official publications acknowledge the Golden Age but never really say when it ended. I guess 1994 myself, but I also feel that the

The homepage for this month’s Tokyo International Anime Fair has revealed that a press event scheduled for March 30 at the convention will host the formal public announcement

Hiroaki Adachi, the manager of Wright Staff, the company that manages the business affairs of author Yoshiki Tanaka, has revealed that Tanaka’s three volume series of Titania science

Udon Comics has launched a “Street Fighter Tribute” art contest to collect original fan art to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Capcom’s beloved fighting game franchise. Winning submissions

Fangoria Magazine now hosts the first trailer for the official American release of the first live action Death Note motion picture. The trailer includes English dubbed dialogue, but