The Japanese city of Kobe is now promoting the original “Kobe to Watashi ~ Kobe & I” anime short created by independent animator Junichi Yamamoto. The short encouraging
TV Asahi has announced that a third Stitch anime series will premiere on July 6th. Stitch! ~Zutto Saiko no Tomodachi~ (Stitch! Absolutely Best Friends) will continue the story
Last March Japanese publisher Hobby Japan released an original English language anime trailer for author Takehaya’s light novel series Rokujoma no Shinryakusha!? that suggested an anime was in
Group Eight, the production company behind last year’s Korean television series Boys Over Flowers – an adaptation of Yoko Kamio’s shoujo manga Hana Yori Dango – is now
The Otona Keikaku performance troupe is preparing a stage play adaptation of the late Fujio Akatsuka’s beloved comedy manga series Tensai Bakabon (Bakabon the Genius). The 1967 manga
FUNimation and Japanese broadcaster Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV) have entered into an agreement giving FUNi the exclusive rights to simulcast the current anime television series Rainbow –
The July issue of Ribon magazine that went on sale in Japan this week reveals that this summer’s touring “Natsu Doki– Ribon–kko Party 5” publicity event will exclusively
Marvel Entertainment has formally announced that the Madhouse produced Iron Man anime television series will premiere in Japan on October 1st on the Animax satellite TV network. Source:
FROGMAN, the Flash animator famed for creating the popular “Eagle Talon” anime franchise, will work with actor/martial artist Jackie Chan to create a 30 second Flash anime theatrical
The Navarre Corporation has hired investment bank Houlihan Lokey to assist in the potential sale of the FUNimation subsidiary. Navarre’s announcement states that “Funimation’s recent results have generally
20-year-old actress Riisa Naka (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Yankee-kun to Megane-chan) will star in a live action TV series adaptation of writer Nagiko Umino and illustrator
The Yomiuri newspaper reports that Studio Ghibli is now working on two new short films for exclusive release at the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo’s Mitaka district. Production of
Latino Review reports that director Tim Burton has reacquired the film adaptation rights to Kazuya Kudo and Ryoichi Ikegami’s 1985 adventure manga Mai the Psychic Girl (known in
Following Sentai Filmworks’ recent announcement of plans to release a (subtitled – as far as we know) double disc complete collection of the sola anime TV series this
