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Question: What is shoujo anime/manga? I have heard that most of the anime and manga series that I love are known as “shoujo” (Fushigi Yuugi, Card Captor Sakura,

AD Vision announced several new licenses at last weekend’s Anime Boston convention: Final Fantasy: Unlimited, Azumanga Daioh, Abenobashi Mahou Shotengai, and the “director’s cut” Evangelion TV episodes 21-24.

Bandai will release the popular Witch Hunter Robin TV series in America this fall. Kikaider the Animation will premier on the Cartoon Network in June. Later this year

Manga Entertainment announced that the Evangelion movies DVD boxed set will be released on October 28th. A Macross Plus DVD boxed set will be available on September 30th.

Pioneer announced their acquisiton of distribution rights to the Haibane Renmei TV series at last weekend’s Anime Boston convention. Pioneer also confirmed distribution rights to Mahoromatic season 2.

Synch Point has acquired the translation rights to the 30 minute long Di-Gi-Charat movie and the new 6 episode “Leave it to Piyoko” (Piyoko ni Omakase) OAV series.

The official Japanese Inuyasha Movie homepage now hosts a short trailer for the presently untitled third Inuyasha movie scheduled for Japanese release this December. The link to the

According to Indiewire, Disney is officially pulling Spirited Away out of American theatrical release on April 15th to make way for the official American DVD release. Since the

The third annual Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema, to be held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has announced that it will host the North American premier screening of the

One Piece movie 4: Dead End no Bouken will go on sale on DVD in Japan on July 21st at a retail price of 4,725 yen ($39). The

Despite prominent recgonition in past years’ annual Eisner Awards and the past year being the biggest year in history for the publication of manga in America, this year’s

Not anime related, but too cool not to mention, the full theatrical trailer for The Matrix Reloaded is now available through the Official Matrix Website

Question: I’m an avid fan of manga and manhua, and I’ve realised that there are very few American and/or European professional manga artists. I have been working on

The Daily Yomiuri (an English language newspaper in Japan) ran a story in its April 10th edition, entitled “Boys will be Lupin III, girls will be Fujiko”, about

Manga Entertainment has announced that audio and video post-production on the English language release of Production IG’s full digital samurai OAV Kai Doh Maru is now complete. The