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Model kit from last month’s Spooky Empire horror convention in Orlando, Florida. Paint job courtesy of Justin Cartisano.

Question: What is your take on the recent noitaminA shift, real or perceived, toward otaku-centric programming? If it’s real, do you think the shift is permanent?

Weekly Young Jump Magazine has formally announced the development of a TV anime adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara’s historical manga Kingdom. The ongoing manga that launched in 2006 is

Publisher Fujimi Shobo has announced the production of an anime based on author Koshi Tachibana’s fantasy romance comedy light novel series Date A Live. The novel series revolves

Anime studio Sunrise has formally announced plans to produce two feature films based on its sleeper hit superhero parody television series Tiger & Bunny. At least the first

Maho Sensei Negima creator Ken Akamatsu has revealed that an extended cut of the Maho Sensei Negima: Anime Final motion picture will be released as a premium with

Next April’s 50 minute long Uchu Senkan Yamato 2199 feature film will actually be just a compiled edit of the first two episodes of a new Yamato television

Kan Sakurai & artist Jun Hayase’s ongoing drama manga series Ekiben Hitoritabi (A Solo Journey for Station Bento) will be getting a live-action television series adaptation starring Yoshinori

?????????????TVSP ?????????????ED Question: How come there are so few Arabian influences in anime? Besides the Heroic Legend of Arslan and Otoyomegatari, and one character in Ladies vs. Butlers,

An official website and teaser trailer have launched to formally announce that director Yutaka Izubuchi’s Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 motion picture will open in Japanese theaters on April

The second season of Unorthodox Media’s popular anime-related TV show, The Ki Anime Report, will premiere in Virginia November 13th. The news and entertainment based show that covers

Both artist Yoko Nemu’s short manga story “Nokonoko” and artist Dodo Yamasaki’s short manga story “Change” will be adapted into short live-action movies directed by Akio Oku. Both

75 year-old manga writer Kazuo Koike has announced his plan to write a magical girl manga series titled “Maho Shojo Mimitsuki Mimi no QED.” Koike, the acclaimed creator

Independent animator Jesús Orellana’s cyberpunk short film Rosa is now online in its ten-minute entirity. Although the short has nothing to do with anime, most anime fans should

Question: Why do you think Warner is so obssessed with doing an Akira movie to the point that they’re pretty much willing to hire anyone (who’s not Asian)