The DC Anime Club in collaboration with the Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan, will host a free public screening of the live action Death Note
Question: Why are reviews towards Ponyo more “mixed” than for that of Spirited Away? While the Rotten Tomatoes score for Miyazaki’s latest is strong, the critics don’t sound
The October issue of Monthly LaLa magazine that goes on sale next week will include the announcement of a TV anime adaptation of Hiro Fujiwara’s shoujo manga Kaichou
Japanese movie news site Cinema Today reports two new “Eagle Talon” anime installments on the way. A new Himitsu Kessha Taka no Tsume anime television series will premiere
The Gundam Big Expo event held yesterday in Tokyo formally announced that the highly anticipated Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn anime will consist of six 50 minute OVAs. Novelist
Just a reminder, folks, the official homepage for the Uchurei TV series is now streaming the show’s first 3 episodes. And Nico Nico Douga has just released Ontama
The Sankei Sports newspaper reveals that the recently announced Real Clothes TV drama will be a sequel to the TV special that aired on the Fuji TV network
Question: What’s keeping titles like Mazinger, Great Mazinger, and UFO Robo Grendizer from ever seeing some kind of English release? Is it Toei (whom I’m assuming holds the
The Japanese Kyou mo Yarareyaku fan blog reports that anime studio Ordet, the studio now associated with controversial director Yamamoto Yutaka, is producing an original anime music video
Vocalist & otaku celebrity Shoko “Shokotan” Nakagawa, Flash animator Rareko, Nabesan Design, female rock band Guruguru, and former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman have collaborated on the creation of
Anime News Network hosts a transcript of a press interview with Eyeshield 21 creators Riichiro Inagaki & Yusuke Murata conducted at the 2009 Comic Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan.
Business Jump Magazine has announced that a late night live action TV drama adaptation of author Ryo Kurashina and artist Nao Kurebayashi’s Jouou Virgin ~Roppongi night GP part
Japanese publisher Fujimi Shobo has confirmed that author Takahiro Yamato passed away on Monday, July 20, due to an unspecified illness. Yamato was the author of the ongoing
GfK Marketing Services Japan reports that more than 50% of the money Japanese consumers spent to purchase Blu-ray discs during the first half of 2009 went to anime
Phoenix Pictures (License to Wed, Pathfinder) has signed on to produce an original horror film co-created by Ju-on producer Taka Ichise and creator/director Takashi Shimizu. Ichise & Shimizu
