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The official Japanese website for the upcoming Elfen Lied anime TV series is now open. Source: Rakuga Kidou

The University of Southern California’s Provost’s Distinguished Visitors Program has announced that veteran anime director Isao Takahata will participate in a two-day event of screenings and lectures at

The Comics Journal has published an interview with Toren Smith, the founder of Studio Proteus and one of the leading forces in the popularization of English translated manga

Actor Mark Dacascos’ official homepage reports that, at long last, the Canadian/Japanese/French/American co-production Crying Freeman movie from 1995, directed by Christophe Gans and starring Dacascos, will receive an

Question: Do people living in Japan buy anime from the United States? This may seem like a silly question but with prices of DVDs in Japan, which offer

Manga Entertainment has officially announced that the first DVD volume of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex will be released domestically on July 27th. The first DVD

The M.O.E. homepage now hosts a 30 second long streaming Windows Media format trailer for the upcoming 8 episode long Love Love? anime TV series. Source: Natsume Goushin

Media Blasters has scheduled the American DVD debut of three new anime titles: Saber Marionette R will contain all 3 OAVs and retail at $19.95 beginning on July

Gundam Seed will debut on the Cartoon Network on April 17th at 10:30 PM Eastern Time. Wolf’s Rain will debut on the Cartoon Network on April 24th at

The official Bones homepage now hosts the first revealed illustration for the upcoming anime TV series Kurau Phantom Memory. Source: Natsume Goushin Ryu Dojo

Pop Japan Travel has announced openings for two package tours to Japan this May. The J.A.M. (Jpop, Anime, Manga) Tour will occur from May 20th to the 27th

AniLesboCon (ALC), the publishing arm of Yuricon, is now offering for sale an English language translation of “Works,” a collection of manga by veteran yuri (lesbian theme) manga

In anticipation of this week’s domestic DVD release of Satoshi Kon’s award winning anime film Tokyo Godfathers, Sony now hosts three video previews of the upcoming DVD, two

Metrocon has opened its online automated sign-up system for volunteers and panels in anticipation of the Tampa Bay, Florida anime convention scheduled for July 9-11. Potential volunteers can

The sequel to director Ryuhei Kitamura’s hit movie adaptation of Koyama Yuu’s samurai manga Azumi is now in production in Japan under the direction of Shusuke Kaneko (Pyrokinesis,