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It’s lamentable that the 2006 American television broadcast of Sav! the World Productions and Hal Film Maker’s 26 episode Oban Star Racers animated series earned the respect of

Question: What was the first anime series to be adapted from an eroge?

FUNimation has formally revealed its acquisition of translation and distribution rights to the 13 episode 2006 sci-fi mecha action anime television series Soukou no Strain, and Shigurui, the

Although there’s presently only a placeholder image on it, the official homepage for the upcoming Hakushaku to Yosei (Count and The Fairy) anime television series is now open.

Otaku USA magazine editor Patrick Macias has published an interview with veteran comic book creator Stan Lee regarding Lee’s new involvement with Japanese manga and anime creators. Source:

An official Japanese website has launched to announce a July debut of a live action television series adaptation of Yukie Nasu’s 1987 shoujo manga Here is Greenwood (Koko

Question: Why are Gundam fans so obsessed with First Gundam?

Saving the best for last, the fourth of the four erotic anime DVDs that Adult Source Media provided for me to sample was Night Shift Nurses kranke 1,

FUNimation has revealed that the third of its five new anime title acquisitions is the Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino series that recently concluded its Japanese television broadcast. FUNimation

Question: Do you think that yuri will become more popular than yaoi in America (especially with Media Blasters and Seven Seas releasing it)?

Super Techno Arts has informed us that due to an unspecified “issue” in Japan, the American distribution of the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures anime series has been ceased and

FUNimation has revealed its second of five new anime licenses to be announced this week: KenIchi The Mightiest Disciple (Shijo Saikyo no Deshi Kenichi). FUNimation has reportedly acquired

ImaginAsian Entertainment has formally explained to Anime News Network that TitleMatch Entertainment, the company retained to manufacture ImaginAsian’s DVD-on-demand releases of the Cat’s Eye, Orguss and Nobody’s Boy

Question: Comedian deities in Dragon Ball Z. An evil alien Buddha in Gantz. Is there any anime that shocked religious groups in Japan or was religiously controversial?

FUNimation has announced its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to the 2006 shoujo anime series Mamotte! Lollipop. The 13 episode series will be released as a bilingual DVD