The homepage for creator/director Shinichiro Watanabe’s (Samurai Champloo, Sakamichi no Apollon) new series Space Dandy has linked to its official streaming teaser trailer. The space opera comedy from
This past Sunday at the Venice Film Festival, Studio Ghibli President Koji Hoshino announced that studio founder and acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki is retiring from directing feature length
Daigo Matsui, director of the live-action Danchi Kokosei no Nichijou & Afro Tanaka movies, will helm a live-action feature adaptation of Shuzo Oshimi’s 2004 romantic drama manga Sweet
Question: What separates a show like Pretty Cure or Mobile Suit Gundam, which constantly creates new worlds and characters based on a unifying theme, from something like One
Media Blasters has announced its acquisition of the 2005 risqué bishoujo Ultraman parody television series UG -Ultimate Girls-. I remain surprised that Media Blasters took so long to
Japanese construction materials company Mag Isover has released an original short anime starring its new mascot character Dannetsu Senshi Belle-chan (Belle-chan the Insulation Warrior), a wandering swordswoman who
The new second trailer for this October’s Yozakura Quartet ~Hana no Uta~ television series reveals a full 97 seconds of new animation. The forthcoming second Yozakura Quartet television
The advertising obi found on new copies of the 17th collected volume of Shungiku Nakamura’s boy-love manga Junjo Romantica reveals that the franchise has another anime adaptation in
The Hollywood Reporter has tweeted word that Disney will distribute creator/director Hayao Miyazaki’s current Japanese hit anime film Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises) in North America. Production studio
Discotek has acquired the domestic re-release rights to the 2000 Gakkou no Kaidan (“School Ghosts”) anime television series. AD Vision released the series on domestic DVD in 2005
The October issue of Dengeki G’s Magazine reports that a Hanamonogatari (“Flower Story”) anime television series will air next year. The continuation of the “Monogatari” franchise based on
The Fuji TV network has announced a tentative November broadcast for its “Hasegawa Machiko Monogatari ~Sazae-san ga Umareta Hi~” (The Story of Machiko Hasegawa ~The Day Sazae-san Was
Question: How exactly did you get into anime? Also, how did international anime fans in the late 80s/90s watch anime in its original format since there wasn’t any
Japanese anime studio-owned streaming site Anime Sols has begun streaming English subtitled episodes of the 1986 Magical Idol Pastel Yumi television series. AnimeSols is seeking $18,000 in committments
