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Question: I’ve been hearing the word “para para” a lot lately. Mainly, I’ve seen tons of music CDs and video games with “Para Para” in the title. For

The English language homepage for the latest Production IG animation is now online. Following up Blood: The Last Vampire is the 43 minute long full digital samurai action/drama

Anime News Service reports that Japanese broadcast satellite station WOWOW has announced that Leiji Matsumoto’s original Space Cruiser Yamato and Isao Takahata’s Heidi of the Alps TV series

Ain’t It Cool News has published a new review of Metropolis written by one of the fortunate fans that saw the film’s American premier at last weekend’s Big

Pioneer has officially confirmed in retailer solicitations that the recently delayed remaining 3 El Hazard: Wanderers DVDs will now be released on December 11th, February 5th and April

Question: I viewed the Di Gi Charat music video clip that came on a special CD which accompanied an issue of Sony’s AX magazine from Japan. It featured

After yesterday’s “Ask John” article about the slim possibility of new Outlaw Star animation being produced, reader “Sany” informed us that the official Japanese Morningstar site has tentative

After 23 years of business, SNK has officially announced on its Japanese website that “with deepest grief…in the Autumn of 2001, SNK will close the company.” Within recent

The Magic Box has learned that the upcoming Gameboy Advance King of Fighters game will be titled King of Fighters EX: Neo Blood. The game will introduce a

IF Labs, the partnership between Irwin Toys and FUNimation Entertainment, has opened its homepage to reveal photos of its upcoming first series of Dragonball Z movie action figures

Question: Is anime edited in Japan as much as it is in America. If it isn’t, why?

The schedule page of the Tokyo Fantastic Film Festival site has posted long, streaming Real Media trailers for the third Patlabor movie, “WXIII Patlabor the Movie 3” and

According to The Magic Box, Mog the moogle, Cid and Chocobo will appear in the upcoming “Disney” RPG Kingdom Hearts.

GameSpot has confirmed that the American version of Final Fantasy X, scheduled for release in January, will not include a selectable audio track of the original Japanese spoken

According to Anime on DVD citing CD Japan, the Japanese DVD release of the new, third Fushigi Yuugi OAV series will include a selectable English dialogue audio track.