Author: John

The Hollywood Reporter has published an interesting article discussing the present state and future of South Korea’s animation industry in the wake of the commercial failure of highly

According to Japanese news site Rakuga Kidou, Japanese anime production company Five Ways has declared bankruptcy. The company has released adult anime titles including Hand Maid Mai, Five

Question: I was just wondering if you knew what the black cat on Trigun was about? Does he pose some kind of significance to Vash or the story

According to Japanese fan site Popolo-Crois.com, Sony will debut a second Popolocrois Monogatari anime TV series on October 5th. The 26 episode long first TV series produced by

The official Dragonball Z Website has reported that new episodes of Dragonball will premier on Toonami on Monday, September 1 at 5:30 p.m. (ET, PT). Dragonball GT will

Being long-time fans of Takeaki Momose’s Miami Guns manga, the staff of DVD Vision Japan have created a Miami Guns Preview Page in anticipation of the official English

Although it’s not much, Famitsu.com has published the first screenshot from the upcoming Japanese Evangelion 2 simulation game for the PS2.

The official American Ninja Scroll TV series homepage has added 4 wallpapers in 1024 x 768 size, 3 AOL Instant Messaging icons, and a QuickTime format downloadable trailer.

Question: I’ve noticed that some anime creators/producers keep using the same character designs over and over again. For example, the creator of Dragonball used a Goku character design

Sure to both please and disappoint fans worldwide, Gainax Studios has officially announced development of a sequel to the classic 1995 Neon Genesis Evangelion anime TV series. Shin

Japanese researchers have begun petitioning the Japanese government to support a multi-million dollar 30 year long technical development project called “Atom Project,” that will theoretically result in the

The official Japanese NHK Juuni Kokki website appears to state that the planned 68 episode broadcast of Juuni Kokki (Record of 12 Kingdoms) has been trimmed down to

TOKYOPOP has amended their early July announcement of a limited edition Chobits manga volume 8 with series collector’s box and Chii figure. The limited edition set, originally scheduled

Question: Is Dual a rip of Evagelion? I was wondering since the mecha in Dual looks almost identical to that of the Eva’s from Evagelion.

According to Kung Fu Cinema, MTV has plans to broadcast an English dubbed version of the Korean cult-hit martial arts fantasy film Volcano High (“Whasango”), a live-action adaptation