Author: John

A new Japanese website has gone online to announced an October 26th release of the first Kyo Kara Maoh! R OVA. Source: Moon Phase

Question: Why does Tezuka get all the love and acclaim?! I don’t mean to undercut his whole “created the modern manga industry,” but whenever scholars start to pass

Publishers Weekly Magazine now hosts an exclusive interview with shoujo manga creator Arina Tanemura. Source: Anime News Network

Dengeki Online now hosts an amusing, short, streaming Windows Media format trailer for the upcoming super deformed Fate/stay night parody action game for the PSP, Fate/Tiger Colosseum. The

The official Strait Jacket homepage now hosts an English translated streaming promotional movie for the upcoming OVA series. The anime is tentatively planned for an August 2008 American

Sony Music Entertainment has reportedly announced auditions to cast for a live action movie adaptation of Yukari Ichijo’s manga series “Pride,” a story about competing female opera singers

The September issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s Asuka Ciel Magazine has announced that Shinobu Gotou’s boys-love novel “Soshite, Harukaze ni Sasayaite,” the first book in Gotou’s “Takumi-kun” series of

Blood and Bones director Yoichi Sai has announced plans to helm a live action film adaptation of Sanpei Shirato’s “Kamui Gaiden” manga stories – spin off side stories

Cutie Honey the Live, a new live action television series adaptation of Go Nagai’s classic action manga, will premier on the TV Tokyo network at 1 AM on

Question: Was Samurai Pizza Cats (Kyatto Ninden Teyande) a success in its time? What is the current status of the show’s license? I had heard that the original

As a follow-up to her controversial public statements made about her attendance at last month’s Anime Expo convention in Los Angeles, California, Japanese pop celebrity Halko Momoi has

The “obi” on the just released volume of Yu Yabuuchi’s Naisho no Tsubomi: Mebae manga reveals plans for an anime adaptation of the Naisho no Tsubomi manga series.

The New York Anime Festival has announced that anime director Kobun Shizuno and American comic artist, cosplayer, and Japanese pop culture fan Aimee Major Steinberger will attend the

Question: There’s seems to be a common belief held by (I assume) some younger fans that Japanese animation is intended for boys. As ridiculous as that sounds to

Question: From Akira in 1988 to brand new offerings like Innocent Venus in 2007, why are so many series, movies and OAVs based in post-apocalyptic settings? Does this