The official website for the American/Japanese co-produced commemorative anime film Baton now hosts a new, second trailer. The 50 minute long sci-fi adventure movie will continue screening at
Viz Pictures has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to 2008 live action adventure movie K-20: Legend of the Mask. Shimako Sato’s film, starring internationally acclaimed actor Takeshi
While the Blood: The Last Vampire live action film premiered in Japanese theatrical release last month, it won’t hit American theaters until July 10. Ain’t It Cool News
This past Saturday Renan and Geraldo, who cosplayed as Brooke and Franky from One Piece, were officially selected to be Brazil’s competitor’s in the 2009 World Cosplay Summit
The Toyama prefecture in central Japan has launched its Toyama Tourism Anime Project website to promote domestic and international tourism. The site features three short original anime videos
Anime News Network now hosts an exclusive interview with Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of anime including Mobile Suit Gundam, Space Runaway Ideon, Aura Battler Dunbine, and Blue Gale
The September 10 Japanese release of Ajiko Kojima’s romance manga Tonari no 801-chan will include a 90 second “Tonari no 801-chan R” anime short on DVD. The “opening
Question: Will America’s current ennui for CG animation – or at least the talking animals/objects – help to cultivate more sophisticated tastes in animation, and possibly save anime
The 12th and final episode of the Queen’s Blade ~Ruro no Senshi~ television series, which aired in Japan yesterday, includes an announcement that the sequel series Queen’s Blade
The official Higashi no Eden homepage has announced that the theatrical feature first announced last February will actually be two movies. Higashi no Eden Gekijouban I: The King
The official Spice and Wolf homepage has added a new 30 second promotional video, this one featuring voice actors Jun Fukuyama & Ami Koshimizu with their beloved Lawrence
Question: In a lot of mecha anime, there’s an apparent trend in the antagonists having young women fighting for their side in a way that is utterly exploiting
