Month: October 2010

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of 1987’s Akai Kodan Zillion TV series. The theme song is

Without realizing precisely what I’d done, I now realize that I chose to attend the X Japan concert that occured on vocalist Toshi’s 45 birthday. The final performance

Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten has announced the development of an anime based on writer Hiroyuki Fushimi and illustrator Takuya Fujima’s light novel series R-15. The novel series revolves

Japanese publisher Kodansha has confirmed that the Yozakura Quartet ~Hoshi no Umi~ OAD will be continued in a second episode. The first Hoshi no Umi OAD went on

The homepage for the upcoming Saiyuki Gaiden OVA series has added a 2:20 streaming teaser. The three episode series is scheduled to debut next year. Source: Moon Phase

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the 1995 Gokinjo Monogatari TV series. The theme song is

Question: Is J.C. Staff overdoing it? Are they going to end up like Gonzo? It seems to me that J.C. Staff is making more and more series. This

Comic culture retail observation website ICv2 has estimated the 2010 retail sales of anime DVDs and BDs in North America to range from $160-200 million, down from a

Seven Seas Entertainment has announced its acquisition of translation and distribution rights for Nozomu Tamaki’s Dance in the Vampire Bund side-story manga Dance in the Vampire Bund Gaiden:

The November issue of Bessatsu Margaret Magazine that goes on sale in Japan next week will formally announce a January premiere of the second season of acclaimed shoujo

Japanese television network TV Asahi has announced plans to acquire full ownership of the Shin-ei Animation production studio best known for animating Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan. TV Asahi

The eleven year old anime production studio Future Planet Co. finalized bankruptcy filing on September 29 after shutting its doors permanently this past July 31. At its height

The DC Anime Club will host a three hour marathon of girls’ anime from 2-5pm at the Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Library in Washington, DC on Saturday,

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the 1998 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou TV series. The theme

On the evening of July 13, 1996 a friend showed me a three minute long anime music video. It was director Rintaro and character designer Nobuteru Yuuki’s X²,