Mobile software company Aplix Corporation has announced plans to acquire the Anime International Company (AIC) production studio for 700 million yen ($8.5 million USD). Aplix will purchase the
Japanese publisher Kodansha has announced that Sayaka Yamazaki’s drama manga series Shima Shima will be adapted into a live action television series. The twelve volume manga tells the
Hisaya Nakajo’s shoujo school drama manga Hana Zakari no Kimitachi e (Hana-Kimi) will be getting a new 16 episode live action TV series adaptation courtesy of Korea’s SM
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the cute opening of the 2005 Ichigo Marshmallow television series. The opening theme
Media Blasters will release both episodes of the Kanokon OVA series on a single bilingual DVD on June 21. Media Blasters’ adult anime line, Kitty Media, will release
Discotek has formally announced its acquisition of the 1983 Golgo 13 anime feature film. The movie will be re-released domestically in a remastered anamorphic widescreen edition that includes
Diamond Comic Distributors has published a short, exclusive interview with Dark Horse Comics manga editor Carl Gustav Horn covering topics including Dark Horse’s selection process for new acquisitions,
Japan’s Gaga Corporation has confirmed that Hiroshi Nishikiori (Azumanga Daioh, Kaiketsu Zorori) is directing an anime feature adaptation of American author Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House children’s
Japanese game company Nihon Falcom has launched a website to announce an anime adaptation of its Eiyu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki (Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky)
The advertising obi found on new Japanese editions of the 14th collected volume of Yasunori Mitsunaga’s Princess Resurrection manga announce the development of a third OAD based on
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the atmospheric opening of the 1998 Midnight Detective Nightwalker television series. The opening
Question: Apparently, some controversy has surfaced regarding the Madoka Magica series and that it’s possible that the series could be canceled. Apparently, some watchdog groups are petitioning for
The homepage for next month’s Sket Dance anime television series has added its first “SD Character Flash Anime” short, this one introducing Bosun. The anime short is accessible
Japanese consumers that purchase all three upcoming Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei Blu-ray boxed sets will be qualified to receive an exclusive mail-away Zetsubo Sensei OVA episode. Ironically, after purchasing
