The winners of the 54th annual Shogakukan Manga Award were announced yesterday. The winners will be presented with a bronze statuette and a 1 million yen prize at
Tokyo’s Kawasaki district has announced plans to build a museum devoted to the late manga creator Fujiko F. Fujio, who was born in Kawasaki in 1933, and passed
The Sci-Fi Channel’s Ani-Monday program has scheduled a variety of anime titles for late evening broadcast over the next several weeks. The Appleseed OVA will air at 11:30pm
The advertising “obi” found on copies of the just released fourth volume of Miura Isao’s bishoujo fantasy novel series Seiken no Blacksmith (written “Seiken no Katanakaji” but pronounced
Reportedly the freshly released March issue of Manga Time Kirara Max magazine has announced plans for an anime adaptation of Shoko Iwami’s 2007 and ongoing light (and reportedly
Hiroyuki Aihara and Nami Adachi’s Franny & Melanie children’s picture book series will get two anime television specials next month. Both programs will animate scenes from the original
Adult Swim has evidently canceled its scheduled broadcast of the Moribito – Guardian of the Spirit television series throughout the next three months. The network has twice broadcast
The TV Tokyo network has announced that a live action television series adaptation of Yuho Hijikata and Tadashi Matsumori’s 1998 to 2004 suspense manga Yukemuri Sniper (Steam Sniper)
Square Enix has formally announced that its Blu-ray edition of the 2005 Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children motion picture will be released on April 16th. The Blu-ray “Final
Question: With the new live-action City Hunter TV series being in prodcution now, could this [be] the perfect time for an anime distributor to license rescue and release
The official homepage for the upcoming Yoku Wakaru Gendai Maho (Properly Learned Modern Magic) television series, based on the light novel series by author Hiroshi Sakurazaka, now hosts
Confirming speculation from last November, the advertising “obi” of the recently published fourth volume of author Sekina Aoi’s Hekiyo Gakuen Seitokaigi Jiroku (“Records of the Hekiyo Academy Student
Japan’s Kids Station television network has officially canceled its planned broadcast of the Hetalia Axis Powers anime series “due to various circumstances.” The series will still be distributed,
From the 21st through the 25th, the Cafe With Cat theme restaurant located in the main branch of the Toranoana anime specialty shop in Akihabara will sponsor a
