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Just a reminder, folks, the official homepage for the Uchurei TV series is now streaming the show’s first 3 episodes. And Nico Nico Douga has just released Ontama

The Sankei Sports newspaper reveals that the recently announced Real Clothes TV drama will be a sequel to the TV special that aired on the Fuji TV network

Question: What’s keeping titles like Mazinger, Great Mazinger, and UFO Robo Grendizer from ever seeing some kind of English release? Is it Toei (whom I’m assuming holds the

The Japanese Kyou mo Yarareyaku fan blog reports that anime studio Ordet, the studio now associated with controversial director Yamamoto Yutaka, is producing an original anime music video

Vocalist & otaku celebrity Shoko “Shokotan” Nakagawa, Flash animator Rareko, Nabesan Design, female rock band Guruguru, and former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman have collaborated on the creation of

Anime News Network hosts a transcript of a press interview with Eyeshield 21 creators Riichiro Inagaki & Yusuke Murata conducted at the 2009 Comic Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan.

Business Jump Magazine has announced that a late night live action TV drama adaptation of author Ryo Kurashina and artist Nao Kurebayashi’s Jouou Virgin ~Roppongi night GP part

Japanese publisher Fujimi Shobo has confirmed that author Takahiro Yamato passed away on Monday, July 20, due to an unspecified illness. Yamato was the author of the ongoing

GfK Marketing Services Japan reports that more than 50% of the money Japanese consumers spent to purchase Blu-ray discs during the first half of 2009 went to anime

Phoenix Pictures (License to Wed, Pathfinder) has signed on to produce an original horror film co-created by Ju-on producer Taka Ichise and creator/director Takashi Shimizu. Ichise & Shimizu

Dreamworks Pictures has hired Oscar-winner Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost) to write the script for its remake of the 2003 Japanese fantasy drama film Yomigaeri (Resurrection). The heartwarming film

It’s not anime, but any American R-rated 2D sci-fi action animated film deserves some notice from anime fans. The official site for War of the Worlds: Goliath, a

The official homepage of the Tales of Symphonia: Teseara Chapter OVA series has added a streaming trailer. The series will premiere next spring. Source: Moon Phase

The official homepage for the Koihime Musou anime franchise has announced that the Shin Koihime Musou television series will premiere in October. Source: Moon Phase

About.com has published an exclusive interview with IKKI Magazine editor-in-chief Hideki Egami, conducted at the recent San Diego Comic Con. Source: Anime News Network