Month: January 2010

The homepage for this spring’s Kaicho wa Maid-sama! television series is now streaming the trailer initially released at last month’s Comic Market convention. The romantic comedy about a

The homepage for Production I.G’s upcoming anime film Bungaku Shoujo is now streaming its second theatrical trailer. The movie opens on May 1st. Source: Moon Phase

Well Go USA has announced a March 30 domestic DVD release for the 2007 romantic fantasy action drama film Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge. The live action adaptation Tatsuhiko

Question: Why is Kanamemo not popular? I know that there were a lot of other shows that grabbed attention last year (K-On!, Saki, and Haruhi S2) but I

Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the Gintama, Hidamari Sketch x 365, Asatte no Houkou, and Le Portrait de Petite Cossette anime series. Sentai

Bandai Entertainment has announced that its Kanngai DVD complete collection will hit mass market on April 6 at a $59.98 SRP. The two discs contained in this DVD

ICv2 has published a lengthy 3 part interview with Viz Media’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing Gonzalo Ferreyra.

The Hana Kappa anime TV series, based on Tadashi Akiyama’s children’s manga Hana Kappa-kun, will premiere on the NHK-Educational public television channel on March 29. New episodes will

The seventh volume of Kanata Konami’s Chi’s Sweet Home manga will be released on April 23 in a regular edition and a limited edition that includes an exclusive

Japanese Flash animation studio, in collaboration with the regional government of the northern Japanese prefecture of Aomori and the non-profit organization Jomonism, is producing an anime adaptation of

Starchild’s official homepage for the current Hanamaru Youchien anime television series now hosts a 90 second workprint video of the “Panda Neko Taiso” (Panda Cat Calisthenics) exercise video.

Pop Japan Travel is now accepting reservations for participation in its 2010 Tokyo International Anime Fair Tour. The tour will include visits to Akihabara and Nakano Broadway, admission

Connecticon, Connecticut’s largest pop-culture convention of 2010, has announced its first round of guests. Voice actors Carlos Ferro and Daniel Kevin Harrison, as well as several webcomic artists

Question: How do you think today’s landscape of anime differs from the landscape of, say, 15 years ago? What kinds of series, movies and OAVs were more prevalent

Pop vocalist and anime voice actress Nana Mizuki’s latest single, “Phantom Minds,” was Japan’s best selling song last week, moving 54,000 copies during its debut week of release.