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Shogakukan’s Spirits Magazine has announced that author Naoki Urasawa’s manga series “Happy!” will be adapted into a live action television drama to air on the TBS network this

Production I.G. President Mitsuhisa Ishikawa will lecture and sign autographs at the Japan Anime Festival at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, on March 19th. Admission is free.

Japanese TV network TBS has opened its official website for the xxxHOLiC anime TV series, which is scheduled to premier this April. Source: Moon Phase

During a press conference promoting the new .hack//G.U. Project, Bandai Visual announced that a new anime TV series titled “.hack//Roots” will air on TV Tokyo stations beginning in

FUNimation has announced its “FUNimation Films” division, which will manage theatrical screenings of FUNimation anime properties beginning March 17th. A double feature of Dragonball Z movies 6 &

Question: What is the story with CLAMP’s X series? Viz stopped publishing the book with volume 18 and since then has made no comments on volume 19. I

The third episode of the King of Fighters: Another Day anime series is now available for free viewing online. Episodes 1 & 2 are also still available. After

Although it’s presently just a placeholder image, Warner Bros. has opened its official Japanese homepage for the live action Death Note movie series, based on the popular manga

Gainax has announced that the “Shin Seiki Evangelion 2: Tsukurareshi Sekai -another cases-” adventure game for the Playstation Portable will be released on April 27th. Famitsu Magazine online

Ain’t It Cool News reports that Dark Horse Comics has scrapped its plan to release Tony Takezaki’s Space Pinchy: The Pinch of the Illegal Brain Intrusion manga in

Question: I am glad to see Blood+ liscensed, but not by Sony. They never got around to finishing Cyborg 009. What would make me think that they would

Critical Mass has announced that the adult anime DVD “Vanilla Series: Anyone You Can Do… I Can Do Better” (“Bakunyuu Oyako”) will be released on April 25th. Source:

Sony Vice President of DVD Programming & Content Michael Stradford has informed The Digital Bits that Sony is “working hard to get [Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children] released

Palisades Toys President and CEO Mike Horn announced yesterday that Palisades Entertainment LLC has, “Discontinued its business of manufacturing and selling licensed and proprietary action figures, collectibles, toys

The Anime Newtwork has announced that its Samurai X motion picture and Gantz volumes 1 & 2 will be available as pay-per-view selections on the DirecTV network throughout