Prolific anime and live-action television scriptwriter Susumu Takaku died of acute respiratory failure on Wednesday, July 22, at 10:58 am. He was 76. Takaku’s work included scripts for
Oricon reports that in anticipation for the 2012 broadcast of the new 30th anniversary Fairy Princess Minky Momo TV anime, a Minky Momo live stage musical will premiere
The USA Today newspaper has published an article ostensibly covering Imagi Studios’ upcoming Astro Boy movie that also delves into Astro Boy’s iconic place in American pop culture
Beverly Hills & Asia (Hong Kong?) based film production company Convergence Entertainment has optioned live action film development rights to Red Entertainment’s 2002 Playstation 2 shooting game Gungrave.
DreamLink Entertainment has added a 3:34 trailer for its first Utsurun Desu OVA to YouTube. The first episode of the three episode adaptation of Sensha Yoshida’s nonsense gag
The official website for director Fumihiko (Vexille) Sori’s latest CG anime project, TO, has added a streaming trailer. The trailer reveals that the TO anime will be a
Japanese animator resource site Anido reports that influential veteran animator Yoshinori Kanada died of a heart attack on the evening of July 21. He was 57. Kaneda was
China Radio International reports that Beijing Glorious Animation and Future Planet’s co-produced Chinese/Japanese 52 episode Sangokushi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) television anime will premiere on China’s CCTV8
VIZ Pictures has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the six NEW PEOPLE Artist Series documentary films profiling important contemporary Japanese modern artists. The films will be
Last December Mamoru Oshii confirmed tentative plans to cast Rinko Kikuchi in a feature length installment of his “Assault Girl” series of short live action movies. Japanese movie
The English language version of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine website now offers free English translated chapters of Yasuki Tanaka’s post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure manga series Kagijin and Mizuki
The official homepage for the recently concluded K-On TV series has announced that the series’ final home video volume will include a new, bonus episode. The seventh Japanese
For those who have been anxious to know, apparently the upcoming Shakugan no Shana OVA series will be four episodes. The first episode will hit Japanese DVD and
During this past weekend’s Otakon convention, FUNimation announced its acquisition of distribution rights to Madhouse’s 2008 Casshern Sins TV anime series and Production I.G’s 2009 TV anime Higashi
