Kewpie, the classic cherubic character created by artist Rose O’Neill in 1909, will celebrate its 100th anniversary this December with an anime TV series of 26 five minute
The November issue of V Jump magazine, which hits Japanese news stands this weekend, will formally announce a 2010 Yu-Gi-Oh! anime film commemorating the anime franchise’s 10th anniversary.
The DC Anime Club will participate in the FYE retail store’s Animania event at the Ballston Mall in Arlington, Virginia on the 27th. The promotional event will include
The rice farmers of Inakadate, Japan have taken to expressing their artistic creativity, and creating a tremendous tourist attraction, by selectively planting different varieties of rice in patterns
Last weekend’s premiere broadcast of the new Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins live action & CGI movie has officially become the Cartoon Network’s most watched broadcast ever. The screening
The Yomiuri & Mainichi Newspapers report that 51 year old Crayon Shin-chan manga creator Yoshito Usui went on a routine day hike in Gunma Prefecture last Friday, September
My Neighbor Totoro creator Hayao Miyazaki has designed a public park that will be constructed on the ground where the house known as “Totoro’s Home” once stood. The
Director Zebediah de Soto and Simon West Productions are prepping a 3D CG animated Night of the Living Dead: Origins prequel to George Romero’s seminal 1968 horror film.
Keiji Nakazawa, the acclaimed creator of the semi-autobiographical manga story Barefoot Gen about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath, has announced that his worsening eyesight will
The Anima’t section of the 42nd annual Sitges International Film Festival, held in Catalonia, Spain, on October 1-12, will host the world premiere of director Kazuyoshi Katayama and
The Kyoto International Manga Museum will formally unveil an original statue of manga creator Osamu Tezuka’s character Phoenix on September 22. The 15 foot tall, 36 foot wide
Konami has revealed that Tokimeki Memorial 4 is now in development as a PSP game. The veteran TokiMemo franchise premiered with the original PC Engine dating simulation game
Viz Media’s NEW PEOPLE complex in San Francisco will host exclusive screenings of director Daihachi Yoshida’s 2007 “dramedy” Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers! and director Nice Rainbow’s
Variety reports that Hancock director Peter Berg will helm a feature film adaptation of the Hasbro board game “Battleship” for Universal. “‘Battleship’ is a big opportunity,” say Universal
