About.com now hosts an interview with Garrett Boast, the organizer behind the planned English language shoujo manga anthology magazine ShojoBerry. The spiritual successor to Viz Media’s Shoujo Beat
Yesterday the Meiji University officially announced its plans to develop the tentatively named “Tokyo International Manga Library.” The planned five-story facility on the university’s Surugadai campus in Chiyoda,
The Guardian newspaper has published an article tracing the influence of Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 anime film Ghost in the Shell on Hollywood directors and films. Article provided by
Following a parental complaint to the Wicomico County, Maryland school board earlier this month – a complaint about offensive nudity and sexual content in a Dragon Ball manga
FUNimation’s official site for the domestic release of RIN ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~ now features an English dubbed streaming Flash trailer. The trailer for this grim supernatural action/horror mystery
The Disney XD network has scheduled Naruto Shippuden to premiere on October 28. Homecoming: 8:30pm A fearless teen trains to become a ninja while battling the demon who
The Akachan (56) original cel phone anime series launched on NTT Docomo’s BeeTV mobile phone video service yesterday. The 36 episode series about a baby born with the
The independent symphonic rock musical group Shoujo Byou (Girl Disease) will make its major label debut when the Lantis music label releases the group’s CD single “Sohaku Shisuferia”
An unconfirmed magazine article appears to reveal that the Chu-Bra!! anime, first announced last June, will be a TV series animated by ZEXCS (Rental Magica, Wagaya no Oinarisama)
According to an anonymous post on Japan’s 2chan message board, next week’s issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine will formally announce that a Gintama motion picture, based on
The live action feature film adaptation of Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji gambling manga has topped the Japanese box office for a second straight week. The anime film
The official website for next January’s Seikon no Qwaser anime television series is now streaming a 60 second trailer in 1M & 2M bandwidths. Tokyopop announced at last
Musician Kazuhiko Katoh, best known to anime fans as the composer of the songs “Ai, Oboeteimasu ka?” (Love, Do Your Remember?) and “Yakusoku” (Promise) – the theme songs
Director Mamoru Oshii has confirmed that at least one unspecified Hollywood film production outfit has inquired about obtaining the rights to produce an American re-make of his upcoming
