Mayu Watanabe, Yuki Kashiwagi, Rie Kitahara, and Rino Sashihara, members of the popular AKB48 pop group, will each create original manga stories for publication in Weekly Young Jump
The Tokyo District Court has ordered publisher Kodansha to pay a 550,000 yen ($6,300 USD) fine to an individual who successfully sued the publisher for unauthorized use of
Monthly Flowers Magazine has announced the production of a stage play adaptation of Yuu Watase’s long running shoujo romance manga series Fushigi Yuugi. The play will run in
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the now somewhat forgotten Witch Hunter Robin television series from
The homepage for the Bakemonogatari anime television series has formally announced that original author NisiOisin’s Bakemonogatari prequel novel Kizumonogatari (Soiled Girl Story) will get an anime adaptation. Anime
Record label Lantis has released its third trailer for the upcoming debut single for the anime multimedia project Love Live. The “Bokura no Live Kimi to no Life”
Discotek has announced its acquisition of four additional titles: the Galaxy Express 999 and Adieu Galaxy Express 999 anime films, the first Project A-ko anime film, the 2001
The seven American branches of Japan’s Kinokuniya Bookstore chain have ceased selling five Japanese “bishoujo” (pretty girl) anime and manga magazines as a “precautionary measure” related to fears
Reportedly during the “Cultural Typhoon” academic conference held at Komazawa University earlier this month, Ergo Proxy & Wolf’s Rain screenwriter Dai Sato made a number of harsh, and
This isn’t anime, but any anime fan that isn’t just a little bit intrigued by the first trailer for director Zac Snyder’s next picture, Sucker Punch, isn’t an
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the 1987 cooking boy television series Mister Ajikko. The theme
Question: Why do people keep calling Inception “original” when it’s clearly “inspired” by Paprika and, even if it wasn’t, has been done before in the cyberpunk genre, much
The G4 television network now hosts a streaming trailer for the Madhouse animated Iron Man anime television series, along with a confirmation that Madhouse’s television series adaptations of
Tokyopop has announced its acquisition of domestic publication rights to Yuna Kagesaki’s Sakura’s Number One (Sakura no Ichiban), Koge Donbo’s Pavane for a Dead Girl (Naki Shoujo no
