Animation Magazine reports that Canada’s YTV broadcast network will air the first season of the Pretty Cure anime television series early next year. 4Kids Entertainment licensed the series
Universal Pictures and its affiliate company Stuber Productions (“Role Models”) have signed a deal with Canadian toy company Spin Master to develop a theatrical film based on Spin
Writer Tetsu Kariya has announced that a live action TV special based on his popular Oishinbo cooking manga series will air next spring. The still ongoing Oishinbo manga
Pop Japan Travel has announced that its upcoming Cold Steel Tour, scheduled for January 30-February 7, 2009, will now include a private meeting with author Hideyuki Kikuchi, the
Question: Why is purple/purple-pink lingerie so popular with mature women in hentai? Why do you think the jukujo & tentacle genres haven’t collided in a manga before?
Crunchyroll has announced a distribution partnership with Japanese media distributor Pony Canyon Inc. to begin online streaming and commerical digital distribution of a variety of anime titles. The
Bandai Entertainment has announced its acquisition of American distribution rights to next month’s Kurokami The Animation television series. The Japanese series, based on an ongoing manga by Korean
Bandai had added a dozen episodes of its 2007 Saiko! Tamagotchi anime television series to YouTube. The episodes are available in original Japanese language with optional English subtitles,
The official website for Production I.G’s motion picture Miyamoto Musashi: Soken ni Haseru Yume (Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai) now features a streaming Flash teaser trailer.
The official Japanese Detective Conan movie homepage now hosts the first teaser trailer for the franchies’ 13 theatrical film: Meitantei Conan: Shikkoku no Chaser (Detective Conan: The Raven
The official Japanese Pocket Monster Movies homepage has added a 30 second teaser trailer revealing the title, release date, and a first look at the 2009 movie that
Japanese film distributor Toho has announced that a Duel Masters Cross motion picture will premiere next fall. The film will be based on the currently airing sixth Dual
Reportedly an OVA adaptation of Tarako Kotobuki’s yaoi manga series Sex Pistols is now early in development. The 2003 sci-fi story deals with romantic relationships between human men
An unconfirmed, anonymous report on Japan’s 2 Channel message board claims that the sixth volume of Coharu Sakuraba’s Minami-ke manga, scheduled for Japanese release on June 23, will
ICv2 now hosts an exclusive interview with Crunchyroll CEO Kun Gao that discusses Crunchyroll’s transition from illegal anime distribution to international legitimacy and Crunchyroll’s bid to effectively become
