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Question: Why was Love Hina cut short? There was plenty of more manga too. Sigh… just like Fruits Basket.

AnimationHQ will host an online chat session with the cast of AD Vision’s English dub of Wandaba Style: Monica Rial, Kira Vincent Davis, Nancy Novotny, Hilary Haag, and

FUNimation currently sponsors two contests, both open until January 30th. One contest will award a complete Dragonball Z Cell Games DVD set. The second contest will award a

The official Japanese website for the six episode Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu OAV series now hosts a streaming two minute long trailer. The first OAV is

Question: Do you consider now in this age that anime and manga to be a luxury item already? They’re expensive. The goods, DVDs and mangas are so expensive

Former Newtype USA Magazine writer Corey Henson has accused Newtype Magazine of altering one of his negative product reviews. According to Henson, Newtype Magazine changed the content of

The official Japanese Fullmetal Alchemist movie website now hosts a 39 second long streaming trailer. The movie will be released in Japan this summer. Source: Anime News Network

AD Vision is now sponsoring a sweepstakes that will award four different winners a Japanese Tree of Palme poster autographed by the film’s director. Entrants must register to

Anime News Network has learned that Comics One, domestic distributor of English translated comics from Japan and Hong Kong, has instituted major policy changes. Apparently Comics One will

ADV Manga has scheduled the domestic release of six new English translated manga titles for March 7th. Each book will retail at $9.99. Cromartie High School Kids Joker

Question: Understanding that your realm of presidence lies more with anime rather than manga, I’ll ask regardless. What, in your estimation, is the best publisher for localizing manga?

According to Japanese site Moon Phase, Fushigi Hoshi no Futago Hime (literally, “Mysterious Star of the Twin Princesses”) will debut in April as a 52 episode anime TV

According to Bookscan, the Rurouni Kenshin volume 1 was the best selling graphic novel of 2004 in mainstream American bookstores. The second best selling graphic novel of 2004,

Question: Every year since 2001 someone always asked you what your favorite titles of the year were. So my question to you, what are your favorite titles of

The fifth anniversary issue of Animefringe Magazine is now available on line. Contents of the January issue include the results of Animefringe’s annual fan selected Top 25 Anime