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The American Shonen Jump is now sponsoring a sweepstakes open to all anime fans in the continental US. The grand prize is a week long trip to Japan.

AD Vision has announced that the first volume of Burn-Up Excess will debut in America August 20th. The 100 minute long Angel of Darkness adult anime DVD will

AD Vision has opened its official website for Excel Saga and its official homepage for the five year old series Burn-Up eXcess. Source: Anime on DVD

Club music periodical BPM Culture Magazine has interviewed Capcom illustrator Akira Yasuda (Akiman) in their latest issue. The two page article covers a number of subjects such as

Koei has announced that the upcoming Xbox port of the Playstation action game Shin Sangoku Musou 2 (released in America under the title “Dynasty Warriors 3”) will allow

AICN has published the first fan review of Michelle Yeoh’s long awaited and highly anticipated self produced kung-fu “epic” movie The Touch. Unfortunately, the spoiler free is harshly

Question: I was wondering how much Ranma is there? I was thinking about buying the series but want to know how long it is.

First reported by Anime on DVD and confirmed with spot checks by AnimeNation employees, the brand new Ranma 1/2 Hard Battle DVD boxed set (American season 3) includes

TOKYOPOP has announced that they will begin accepting entries for their “Rising Stars of Manga” contest on August 15th. Aspiring manga style artists are encouraged to submit an

The August issue of online anime fanzine Animefringe has been published to the web. This month’s issue features a retrospective of the 2002 Anime Expo, a look at

According to ICv2 News, Hamtaro is now the highest rated program on American television for viewers aged 9-14 broadcast in the 7 AM timeslot. The most surprising aspect

Anime on DVD has confirmed through AMO Tokyo that Japanese publisher Yumeta will re-release the first Animation Runner Kuromi-chan OAV DVD on September 25th in a region free

The Big Apple Anime Festival (BAAF) has announced that Panasonic, the official audio/visual technology supplier for BAAF, will screen two 15 second long clips of anime throughout the

Question: Is there a live-action version of Boogiepop Phantom?

Anime News Network has learned what manga titles are included in the promotional Shonen Jump #0 scheduled for public release tomorrow. Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togasami Yu-Gi-Oh!