Author: John

Question: Just writing to blast your brain and get you to tell me everything you know about D4 Princess. From the first time I saw the opening video

Nomura Rie (age 16), a popular idol from Japanese Seven Eleven TV commercials, is about to make her musical debut starring in the lead role of Tezuka Osamu’s

AnimeExpo has announced that voice actress and vocalist Kikuo Inoue will be attending the convention as a guest of honor. Inoue-san’s most memorable roles have included Belldandy of

Epoch Toys has revealed the first image from its second series of Soul Calibur action figures, a prototype of Astaroth. The first series of Soul Calibur figures included

According to The Magic Box, an Asian company has devised an unlicensed Playstation 2 memory card device that will disable the DVD player region code recognition in the

Jackie Chan has announced that he will star in an epic Mandarin-language film for Hong Kong’s Golden Harvest Studios. With a budget of $78 million, it will be

Japanese toy company Yellow Submarine has announced a new variant version of the Belldandy Ah! My Goddess figure originally released earlier this year. The variant version will feature

Question: I am looking for non-scifi non-fantasy anime. Hmm… that’s funny. None seem to exist. Are there any mature, character based, realistic anime out there? I want something

Media Blasters has announced several new anime releases and licenses. The Maho Tsukai Tai TV series will debut on subbed and dubbed VHS and bilingual DVD on September

FUNimation has delayed the Dragonball Z: World Tournament and DBZ: Frieza- Transformation DVDs from their original release date of June 12 until June 26th. No reason has been

After a lengthy delay, Pioneer has announced that they will release subtitled and dubbed VHS boxed sets of the second season of the Fushigi Yuugi TV series on

In its ongoing promotion of its domestic Trigun soundtrack, TokyoPop has referred to the series as, “seen on Cartoon Network.” Pioneer representative Chad Kime has informed Anime News

The AnimEigo Talk mailing list has reported that Rumiko Takahashi, creator of Ranma, Urusei Yatsura and Maison Ikkoku, has returned to her somewhat lesser known manga story One

Our Japanese distributors have informed us that the Final Fantasy X theme song single, “Suteki de Ne” with the vocal arrangement of Arith’s Theme from Final Fantasy VII

Tokyo Pop has announced that they have acquired the translation and publication rights to four manga series: Corrector Yui, Marmalade Boy, Kodomo no Omocha, and Island. Corrector Yui,