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There have been strong speculations that action figure manufacturing company Resaurus is closing shop. On July 5th the company shut down their online forums stating, “Due to profanity

In a surprise announcement, Konami has revealed that Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty will be available in the US in November, a month before its Japanese

In order to lessen confusion between the original 1984 Vampire Hunter D film and the new 2001 release, Urban Vision has announced that the full American title for

Toonami is giving away 50 copies of their “Toonami Deep Space Bass” soundtrack CD each day. The CD includes music from Dragonball Z, Gundam, Blue Submarine #6 and

Question: What’s the fascination with the Japanese giving their anime series weird titles like Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 or Cowboy Bebop or Serial Experiments Lain? If anything, they

Media Blasters has confirmed the rumor that they had licensed Weiss Kreuz by announcing that “Knight Hunters, Weiss Kreuz, Vol. 1: Dead Ringer” will be released on dubbed

Due to protracted licensing problems, Viz has decided to remove X/1999 from the lineup of its monthly manga-anthology magazine Animerica Extra. The long delayed seventh X/1999 graphic novel

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has published a short but very concise and very positive review of Jin-Roh. Article provided by Chris Russell

Providing further evidence of the growing acceptance of anime into mainstream American culture, Burn-Up W policewoman Rio has appeared on a billboard advertising Mistic orange drink. The billboards

Continuing their trend of re-releasing classic Street Fighter games on the Dreamcast, Capcom will unveil Super Puzzle Fighter 2X for Matching Service on July 5th at a retail

This week’s issue of Time Magazine has selected Taiwanese born Ang Lee as America’s best film director. Lee’s resume includes Sense and Sensibility & Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Question: I was just wondering what would be a good anime that could be shown on TV that wouldn’t anger fans by having too much cut out. I

AnimeNext has discovered that the X OAV due out on August 25 will be a prologue to the movie and will be directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, director of

Contrary to the amature translations previously posted on the AnimeNation news, the new Gainax production Melody in Oblivion will not be a new anime TV series based on

In response to internet rumors stemming from Fanboy Entertainment’s announcement of several delayed or canceled scheduled releases, Fanboy Entertainment founder and president C.B Cebulski has issued an open