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Namco has announced that Soul Calibur II will debut on the PS2, Xbox, GameCube and apparently also the GameBoy Advance in Japan this August. Namco is at work

In a surprising and encouraging unusual cross-cultural exchange of anime between America and Japan, NHK Television will begin re-broadcasting Tetsuwan Atom TV episodes beginning on April 20th. The

Question: I’ve been wondering what those folded papers that come with Japanese CDs are for. Is there anything printed there (aside from the portion of the cover sleeve/picture)

Manga Entertainment has dramatically overhauled its homepage to a Java and Flash intensive format. However, what may be most interesting is finally the first official confirmed details on

In typical Miyazaki fashion, mixed with his grateful response to winning top honors at the Berlin International Film Festival for Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, Hayao Miyazaki made

According to first hand reports from last weekend’s Katsucon convention, Viz Communications now owns the English translation rights to the current Gunnm: Last Order manga serial (the sequel/continuation/revision

Question: The “uncut” dub of Dragonball Z, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Digimon are great shows in Japan, but the English dubs are definitely watered down for American audiences. This

Figures.com has published images of the prototype figures from Diamond Comics’ upcoming line of American produced Gatchaman action figures and IF Labs’ American produced line of original Dragonball

One of the more anticipated events of last weekend’s Tokyo Anime Fair was the presentation of the 2001 TAF Anime Awards. A panel of 72 professionals in the

The stunning Japanese action/horror film Versus is currently in French theaters. A French subtitled version of the film will be released to DVD in that country later this

Sega, Nintendo and Namco have announced a collaborative development of a new arcade hardware board called TriForce. The TriForce is a GameCube compatible 3D arcade board, which will

Question: I downloaded a short movie (approx. 12 minutes long) of Eva characters having sex under Gendou’s order. It’s in Japanese with Kanji subtitles, so I kinda missed

Media Blasters has licensed the translation rights to the eX-Driver OAV series created by Kousuke Fujishima, creator of Ah! My Goddess and You’re Under Arrest. The dubbed versions

At this past weekend’s Katsucon convention AD Vision did not announce any anime titles that they have not publicly confirmed before. Virtually forgotten titles such as The Samurai

Last week the AnimeNation News reported that TOKYOPOP would be translating the Japanese Card Captor Sakura Cheerio! illustration book as the domestic “Art of Card Captor Sakura.” We