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Question: Why was the Shadow Skill anime discontinued in the U.S.?

Hello Kitty is now available at McDonald’s as part of their current “Hello Kitty/Transformers: Beast Machines” promotion. Running now through August 24th, you can get one of 9

McFarlane Toys has begun to market their “3D Animation from Japan” action figures line in preparation for an October release. The following appeared in this month’s Previews magazine:

More photos of Kaiyodo’s Trigun figures have come out of the Wizard World Chicago convention including Vash the Stampede, the variant Vash with black trench coat, and more

Raving Toy Maniac has put together a run down of Devilman action figures since the 70’s for their weekly Speedlines column. The article has shots of everything from

Anime Jump has posted interviews with Serial Experiments Lain creator Yasuyuki Ueda, and character designer Yoshitoshi Abe from Otakon. Both interviews are must reads for anime fans. Anime

TNC TV has posted steaming audio interviews of figures from the comic & sci–fi industry at Wizard World 2000. Interviews include Michael Horn, president of Palisades Marketing, Brian

Variety reports that Jackie Chan is in final negotiations with MGM to co-star in a remake of the Jerry Lewis comedy The Bellboy. Chan would share top billing,

Question: I’m a big fan of many of Yoko Kanno’s soundtracks (Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop, etc.) and I was wondering if you could perhaps provide some sort of

The Mars Colony has sent out a press release confirming that they and Palisades Marketing will be producing figures based on Ninja Scroll. As stated earlier there will

The next two episodes of Card Captors will be “Double Take” (Japanese episode 25, “Sakura and Another Sakura”) and “The Race” (Japanese episode 30, “Sakura and the Injured

One of the many memorable features of the Berserk anime series is undoubtedly the show’s fantastic music. An interview with the show’s composer, Susumu Hirasawa, has been posted

One of the lesser known, but greatly loved Capcom fighters was the 2.5 dimension Rival Schools. Capcom has released the test version of the sequel for the NAOMI

Dragon Quest 7, one of the most long-delayed and most anticipated video games in years, will finally see release in Japan for the Playstation on the 26th, with

Question: Do you think that Manga will buy the rights for Jin Roh (as they did for GITS and the two Patlabor movies)? How about memories? What anime