Category: Anime News

Brazilian fan site Papo de Budega now hosts a short interview with Tokyo Broadcasting System manager for anime licensing James McLeod.

96 year old distinguished actor Hisaya Morishige passed away of natural causes on November 10. Morishige was respected as one of Japan’s most famous modern actors and as

Anime studio Asahi Production, which has worked on anime including Basquash, Tayutama, Cross Game, Michiko to Hatchin, Hyakko, and countless other titles, has announced plans to break ground

Reportedly the fourth issue of Nyantype magazine, available in Japan next week, will announce that production studio AIC (Gall Force, Bamboo Blade) will animate the second Strike Witches

Icarus Publishing has announced that next month’s Comic AG magazine issue 110 will be the periodical’s final print issue. The first and only American manga magazine serializing translated

The Cannes Film Festival promotional trailer for director Gordon Chan’s live action King of Fighters movie, based on the popular and long running SNK fighting game franchise, has

The fourth teaser trailer for the first Break Blade motion picture, the first trailer to include actual animation footage, has been formally released. The first of six planned

Production I.G has announced that the theatrical premiere of Higashi no Eden movie II: Paradise Lost has been delayed until March, due to “production issues.” The film was

The NHK television network’s multi-award winning 2008 anime television series Hoshi Shinichi Short Shorts this week won the top prize in the comedy category of the 37th International

The cover of the January issue of Monthly Ikki magazine announces that an anime TV series adaptation of Natsume Ono’s samurai drama manga series House of Five Leaves

The Japanese Moon Phase comments site reports uncited word that fourth season of the Ikkitousen anime series, titled Ikkitousen XX (Ikkitousen Xtreme Xecutor) is now in development. Reportedly

Enji Arai’s light novel Sugar Dark: Umerareta Yami to Shoujo (Sugar Dark: The Buried Darkness and the Girl) was awarded a prestigious grand prize at the Kadokawa Shoten

Prolific lyricist Toshio Oka passed away due to acute kidney failure in a Tokyo hospital on Tuesday at 4:02 a.m. He was 92. Oka composed the lyrics for

FUNimation has announced its acquisition of domestic translation & distribution rights to the first 12 episode Sekirei television series, both seasons of the Tetsuwan Birdy Decode TV series,

FUNimation has hired former president of Austin, Texas-based animation studio Boomstar Inc., Chris Moujaes as Director of Original Entertainment. Moujaes, who has extensive experience in developing international TV