AnimeNation Anime News Blog

Anime News Network has published a history and analysis of the recently announced demise of former American anime powerhouse distributor and retailer SyCoNet.

Question: My friend and I have both been buying Trigun and Evangelion but unfortunately both are coming to an end. We can’t seem to find a good series

AnimEigo has now opened pre-orders for the second Urusei Yatsura TV series DVD boxed set. The second set will include TV series DVD volumes 6-10 and will be

David Williams of AD Vision revealed to Anime on DVD that ADV Films will release Getter Robo volume 1 on July 17th. This Getter Robo is the violent

Dark Horse Comics has announced that Bill Sienkiewicz will rework 6 of his original cover illustrations from the First Comics publication of Lone Wolf & Cub for volumes

Question: In my experience it seems that mecha and magical girls shows are becoming more popular every day. Is this simply a fad or do you believe this

Although not completely finished, Squaresoft has opened their Flash intensive Japanese homepage for Final Fantasy X. The site provides tantalizing hints about the game and should be a

Several members of the AnimeNation crew will be attending the JACON anime convention in Orlando, Florida, this Saturday and Sunday. AnimeNation will be set up, accepting pre-orders for

Unhappy with Viz Communications’ decision to retitle the Ayashi no Ceres animation to “Ceres: Celestial Legend,” and even more upset with the decision to release the show in

Central Park Media has opened a Flash homepage for the violent supernatural bishonen adventure Angel Sanctuary, which will be released on a single DVD/dubbed VHS tape on July

An animated TV series version of Hisaichi Ishii’s Nono-Chan manga will premier on the TV Asahi network in the Tokyo area on July 7th. Nono-chan began serialization in

Funimation has confirmed that the first new home video release of Dragonball will be the uncut hour long tape “Tournament – Roshi’s Request,” to be released on June

Of special interest to Dragonball fans, Planet Namek has posted a summary of Akira Toriyama’s one shot Dragon Ball parody, “Neko Majin Z” from the June Monthly Jump

The QuickTime homepage has posted the latest action filled theatrical trailer for the upcoming Final Fantasy movie.

AolTimeWarner.com has posted an interview with Cartoon Network President Betty Cohen in which Cohen discusses CN’s demographics and their market of older viewers.