Question: I was wondering why manga licensors, like TOKYOPOP, basically only license long manga series. Why don’t they license books with various short stories in them as well
Kadokawa has opened its official website for the upcoming anime TV series Girls Bravo. The series is scheduled to debut on July 5th at 2:53 AM. Source: Moon
Del Rey Books has issued a press release announcing the acquisition of two new shoujo manga titles published in Japan by Kodansha: The Wallflower (Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge)
The Magic Box has published two pages of screenshots of the upcoming cel shaded Playstation 2 game Fullmetal Alchemist: Akai Elixer no Akuma (Devil’s Red Elixer).
According to the official Naruto movie website, the Naruto movie scheduled to open in Japanese theaters on August 21st will be a double feature of the main feature
Question: From what I have seen on DVDs and TV this series is average, not horrible but average at best. It’s like Rurouni Kenshin meets Cowboy Bebop but
Starchild has opened its official website for the anime TV series Futakoi, scheduled to premier in September. The series will be two stories (series?) titled “Futakoi” (written in
Central Park Media has announced a pair of American debuts scheduled for release on September 21st: Ichi The Killer: Episode Zero will retail at $24.99 and run 47
The Movie Box now hosts the official Warner Bros. theatrical trailer for the Yu-Gi-Oh Movie scheduled for nationwide theatrical release on August 13th. Source: Jagged Team
Dark Horse has announced a line of Trigun “anime manga,” books made up of stills from anime episodes. (TOKYOPOP refers to these books as “Cine-Manga.” Viz calls them
Publisher Last Gasp has announced plans to re-release Keiji Nakazawa’s haunting classic autobiographical manga series Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima. Barefoot Gen was possibly the first
Question: I just the Korean made film Wonderful Days and was totally blown away. Could the Japanese anime industry see this kind of quality film as a threat
The Japanese language Mainichi Newspaper has published an article reporting on the crisis affecting the Japanese animation industry. While a handful of successful animators including Hayao Miyazaki and
The official Japanese Steamboy website now hosts a new, fourth trailer that contains some new footage. The film is scheduled for Japanese release on July 17th, and American
