At last weekend’s Sakuracon convention, FUNimation announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna TV series. The first domestic DVD volume will be released
Nikkan Sports News reports that for the 2005 World Expo in Aichi, Japan a roughly five acre Pokemon theme park will be created near the Nagoya JR train
The official Yumeria homepage (for the Playstation 2 “love adventure” game) now hosts a downloadable pattern for a papercraft model of Neneko. Download the 3.92Mb compressed LZH file
Southwest Minnesota State University’s official anime and manga club, the Mustang Anime Otaku has announced Sogen Con, a three day celebration of all things anime and manga. Sogen
Katsuya Terada, famed illustrator and character designer for the Blood: The Last Vampire movie, will make a guest appearance at the Compound Gallery in Portland, Oregon on May
According to a Japanese language news report, an un-named “major American studio” is in negotiations for distribution rights to the new Japanese live action Casshern movie, along with
Media Works has announced plans to develop a series of 4 Playstation 2 action games based on the Gunslinger Girl anime TV series. The second game is scheduled
The Pacific Media Expo has announced that Shino Masanori, character designer for Gungrave, Gundam Wing & Banner of the Stars, will attend the convention as a guest of
According to Animation Magazine, Hellboy movie director Guillermo Del Toro has stated, “We are in talks with Gonzo Anime for the Hellboy anime series.” Source: Anime News Network
In an American comic industry first, TOKYOPOP has announced plans to produce and broadcast original television ads for its manga titles on TV networks including Cartoon Network, MTV,
Question: Wow, digisubs and super-saturation of the US anime market has made American anime “fans” into Japanese fans, just with 1/3 of the attention span. I’m kind of
Yesterday’s AnimeNation News Page included an article citing a Japanese fan BBS post claiming that a Sunrise Studios representative had informed the message poster that the Inuyasha anime
