Category: Anime News

ICv2 hosts a brief, exclusive interview with David Bowers, director of Imagi’s upcoming animated Astro Boy movie.

The Japanese Media Development Research Institute’s Animation Market Analysis Project reports that the market for animation in Japan declined for the second year in a row. Total revenue

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4Gamer is now streaming the two-minute anime opening of GMO Games’ 3D MMO PC game Kinos World ~Kishi Shuketsu~. The animation is paired with Ui Miyazaki’s theme song

The official homepage for the Kemono to Chat (“Kemocha”) OVA has updated and now includes a streaming trailer. (Oddly, at least for me, the trailer doesn’t have any

TMS Entertainment has officially added a fourth promotional video for the St. Seiya: Lost Canvas video series to YouTube. The series’ second DVD volume, containing episodes 3 &

The advertising obi found on copies of Yuria 100-shiki (Yuria Type 100) manga volume 10, which went on sale in Japan yesterday, announces that the risqué sci-fi romantic

An anonymous post on Japan’s 2channel message board also claims that a retailer solicitation has revealed development of an anime adaptation of Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou’s dramatic

An anonymous post on Japan’s 2channel message board claims that a retailer solicitation has revealed the development of an anime adaptation of Hotaru Odagiri’s boys-love manga series Uragiri

While vague word of a second Kanokon anime series surfaced last month, it’s now been clarified that Kanokon ~Manatsu no Dai Shanikusai~ (Kanokon: Midsummer’s Great Carnival) will be

Shin-ei Animation has launched a web page for its eighth annual Sensou Douwa (Wartime Fable) TV movie, Aoi Hitomi no Onna no Ko no Ohanashi (Story of the

Animate reports that the TBS network will air a “Shin Gekijouban Kara no Kyoukai Tokubetsu Bangumi -Zenshichi shou no Kiseki-” TV special on August 2nd. The special will

Anime production studio Barnum Laboratory has announced that its second Hoshi ni Negai wo short CG anime film, Hoshi ni Negai wo: Fantastic Cat, will get late show

ICv2 has released its compiled lists of America’s best selling manga, shoujo manga, and shounen manga during second quarter 2009. Compared to early 2009, D. Gray-Man & One

ICv2 reports that FUNimation’s second quarter 2009 sales were up about $1.9 million compared to the same period in 2008. FUNimation also took in a $1.75 million “agency