Game maker Bushiroad has announced that its long-on-hiatus anime project Neppu Kairiku Bushi Lord is being relaunched as a Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road anime TV series. The project
A second season of the Oshiri Kajiri Mushi (“Bottom-biting Bug”) anime television series will premiere on the NHK-BS Premium channel on September 30. The 20-episode first series aired
Cinema Today has released a new three-minute trailer for Toei’s upcoming CG animated Space Pirate Captain Harlock motion picture. Yahoo Japan is also now exclusively streaming a 12-minute
Japanese publisher Core Magazine has announced the end of publication of the Comic Megastore adult manga anthology magazine following yesterday’s arrest of Core Magazine editorial department chairman, 55-year-old
The family of anime director Ryutaro Nakamura has confirmed that 58-year-old Nakamura passed away on June 29, dying of pancreatic cancer. Nakamura directed anime including the 1992 children’s
Performance art development comany NEGA Design Works has announced its development of a live-action/anime hybrid motion picture titled Mint. Shutaro Oku will direct the film’s live-action segments while
Harmony Gold U.S.A. Inc. has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Hasbro, Inc. seeking an injunction against Hasbro’s continued sale of the “G.I. Joe and the Transformers …
Publisher Kodansha has announced that Shuichi Shigeno’s Initial D auto-racing manga will get a second anime feature film titled “Shin Gekijouban Initial D” (Initial D New Movie) next
The Pokémon Smash television program has released the first footage from this fall’s fifth Pocket Monster television series. The Pocket Monster XY anime series, based on the upcoming
The advertising obi found on new copies of the 11th collected volume of Kanae Hazuki’s romance manga Suki-tte Ii na yo (“Say, ‘I Love You'”) reveals that the
Kodansha has released a trailer for the upcoming sixth Fairy Tail OAD. The exclusive anime episode packaged with limited edition copies of the 39th volume of Hiro Mashima’s
Media Blasters has announced its domestic acquisition to the 2010 twelve-episode comedy television series Ladies Versus Butlers!. The adaptation of Tsukasa Kouzuki’s light novel series was directed by
FUNimation has announced plans for domestic home video releases of the .hack//SIGN (2002), .hack//Legend Of The Twilight (2003), .hack//Roots (2006) television series and 2008 .hack//G.U. Trilogy anime feature
Kodansha has released a promotional anime clip to commemorate the July 23 release of the first collected volume of Haruko Ichikawa’s fantasy/action manga series Hoseki no Kuni (Country
