The current issue of CoroCoro Comic magazine has announced that the Gekijouban Doraemon: Nobita no Ningyo Taikaisen (Doraemon Movie: Nobita’s Great Merman Sea Battle) motion picture will open
Official websites for a couple of upcoming anime have just gone online. Fairy Tail Seitokai no Ichizon Kemono to Chat OVA Zero no Tsuka… er, Baka to Test
Japanese music news site BARKS reports that the members of rock band X Japan will be the first real life celebrities to appear as playable characters in the
In lieu of an acquisition announcement, Bandai Entertainment has simply released the first DVD volume of the Kannagi ~Crazy Shrine Maidens~ anime television series today. The subtitled only
The August issue of Monthly Sunday GX magazine, which goes on sale in Japan on Saturday, will formally reveal that Madhouse’s third Black Lagoon anime will be an
Next week’s issue of Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine will formally announce that the Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen (Inuyasha Final Chapter) TV series will debut this fall. The staff and cast
Viz Media has announced English translation plans for four new manga titles originally published in Shogakukan’s Ikki Magazine. Saturn Apartments, Kingyo Used Books, Afterschool Charisma, and Tokyo Flow
Starz Media’s Chiller television network has launched an “Ani-Monday” programming block that airs violence and horror themed anime from Starz Media owned licensing company Manga Entertainment. Tokko and
Nagoya TV’s official homepage for Sunrise Studio’s Battle Spirits anime television series has formally announced that the new TV series Battle Spirits: Shounen Gekiha Dan will premiere on
The Japanese Moon Phase fan site reports that publisher Takeshobo has confirmed the development of an anime OVA adaptation of Mizushina Takayuki’s 4-koma manga series Kemono to Chat,
Soreike! Anpanman has formally attained the Guinness World Record for largest number of characters in an animated series. As of March 27, Guinness World Records credited the Anpanman
Japan’s otaku community was abuzz early this week when manga artist Yoshikawa Hideaki confirmed that publisher Square Enix had evidently expunged his risqué fantasy manga series Akuma to
In September 2008 anime studio Radix mobanimation filed suit against production company Micott & Basara, alleging that Micott & Basara had contracted Radix to create an Appleseed: Genesis
