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Question: Is My-Hime and its spinoff My-Otome Shonen or Shojo?

FUNimation has formally announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the 16 episode Baccano! anime television series. The supernatural crime adventure drama aired 13 episodes on Japanese TV

FUNimation has begun distribution of the 2006 Jyu-Oh-Sei sci-fi action television series online. Permanent downloads retail at $1.99 per epsiode or $16.99 for the entire 11 episode series

The official Japanese homepage for the Kara no Kyoukai movie series has added a streaming trailer for the upcoming fifth of seven planned films. The trailer is avaialable

The Sports Hochi newspaper reports that the Café Kichijouji de audio drama CD series will be adapted into a live action television series staring Emiri Nakayama as café

Question: What’s up with all of the glompage in anime? I mean most of the anime I watch has several glomp scenes in amost every episode. What’s up

The official website for the first Major motion picture, Major: Yujo no Winning Shot, now hosts a streaming trailer. The film opens in Japanese theaters on December 13th.

The official Japanese homepage for the Xamd: Lost Memories anime series now hosts a new 61 second long bilingual Japanese/English trailer. The trailer is DRM encoded for compatibility

Following the recent launch of Viz Media subsidiary Viz Productions, “to produce and license live-action theatrical film and TV products based on animated and manga series” from Japanese

In addition to announcing that the “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit” (Seirei no Moribito) anime television series will premier on the American Cartoon Network on August 24th. Publishers

Although there’s not much on it at present, the official homepage for the recently announced Umineko no Naku Koro Ni anime television series is now online. Source: Moon

The official Japanese homepage for the upcoming live action Yatterman movie, based on Tatsunoko’s classic anime franchise, now hosts a Flash trailer. Source: Twitch

Question: Why are DVD collection cheaper then separate DVD? I have notice this recently when I saw Haruhi DVDs. Separate DVDs would cost more then the collection. Why

The first two episodes of the original Pretty Cure television series, officially subtitled by Toei Animation, are now available for commercial download at $1.99 each from Direct2Drive. 4Kids

The official Japanese homepage for the Xam’d: Lost Memories (Bounen no Xamdou) anime series has announced that the 26 episode show will be distributed in Japan through the