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Question: I’ve heard people talking about Kanon a lot, and they loved it. What, exactly, is it about?

Fan site Galaxy Anime is now hosting exclusive Real Audio interviews with TOKYOPOP president John Parker, Dave Merrill of Anime Weekend Atlanta, Senior Editor at Dark Horse Chris

Anime fanzine Animefringe has published its October issue to the internet. This month’s issue features a cover story on Bandai’s upcoming release of Arjuna, and articles on the

Capcom has revealed that Alex from Street Fighter III, Poison from Final Fight and Batsu from Rival Schools/Project Justice will be playable characters in the upcoming 3D Capcom

Bandai has announced a pair of new 2D fighting games for the Japanese PSone. Inuyasha: Sengoku Battle and Samurai Deeper Kyo will both based on the anime of

American Cinematheque Presents/Vitagraph Films will release prolific, bad boy Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike’s offbeat musical Happiness of the Katakuris theatrically on October 18th in Los Angeles (Landmark’s NuArt

Speed Racer Autoworks is now offering for sale its line of 100 Speed Racer Mach 5 replica automobiles. Each car weighs in at 385 horsepower and is completely

Question: What ever happened to Sohryuden – Legend of the Dragon Kings? CPM released the first DVD ages ago, and now there is no word of the series.

Bandai has delayed the planned US release of the .Hack//Infection Playstation 2 RPG from October until February 2003 so that the video game will debut in America simultaneously

AD Vision’s only new announcement from last weekend’s Anime Weekend Atlanta convention was word of plans for a “Go Nagai Collection” DVD set that would include titles such

Pioneer will release the first DVD volume of the original 1971 Lupin the 3rd TV series on January 28th. “Lupin the 3rd TV: The World’s Most Wanted” will

Question: Is Bandai the new Streamline Pictures? Lately Bandai has been engaging in many of the practices that people hated Streamline for such as, name changes, bad dubs,

UFO Princess Walkure ended on episode 12, broadcast on September 19th. Tokyo Underground, Chobits and Tenchi Muyo! GXP ended on episode 26 broadcast on the 24th. Saishuuheiki Kanojo

Anime on DVD has received a massive number of reports confirming that Manga Entertainment’s new DVD release of End of Evangelion is defective. Apparently the DVD will play

Midnight Eye has published a lengthy, negative critical review of the new live action adaptation of Yoshikaze Takeuchi’s novel Perfect Blue. Source: Anime News Service