Weekly Shonen Magazine will formally announce next week that Suzuka creator Kouji Seo’s current romantic comedy manga series Kimi no Iru Machi will get an OAD next spring.
Toei has released a two-minute teaser for “Rebellions,” a live-action post-apocalyptic girl-power sci-fi/action film. Koichi Sakamoto directed the short that stars Nao Nagasawa (Ninpu Sentai Hurricaneger) & Minami
Director Ridley Scott has agreed to direct another film expanding the world first depicted in his seminal 1982 film Blade Runner. Alcon Entertainment (The Blind Side) will produce.
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the opening of the 1989 City Hunter 3 TV series. The opening theme
Question: Saint Young Men seems like a very popular manga in Japan. It sells very well and in 2009 received the Osamu Tezuka cultural prize for short work
FUNimation spokesperson Sophie McNutt has formally confirmed that FUNimation’s domestic distribution licenses for Kamichu!, Kyo Kara Maoh!, The Law of Ueki, Paradise Kiss, and The Story of Saiunkoku
The Jmanga digital manga distribution site run by Japan’s Digital Comic Association launched yesterday. The site currently offers 48 different manga titles for digital purchase, including several titles
Writer & director Yuji Uchiyama has announced that his series of Kami-Usagi Rope (pronounced “Kami-Usagi Ropei”) theatrical shorts will be expanded into a feature film. The shorts depict
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the sweet opening of the 2006 Binbou Shimai Monogatari TV series. The opening
Question: It seems like there are a whole lot of unlicensed gems from the years 2007 and 2008. Kaiji, Mononoke, Denno Coil, Kaiba, Michiko & Hatchin, just to
Sentai Filmworks has acquired the domestic distribution rights to creator Yasushi Akimoto’s 2007 Golden-era homage OVA series ICE. The sci-fi/action/fantasy is set in a distant future Tokyo in
Sony Pictures has released an English subtitled trailer for Studio Pierrot’s feature film Onigamiden. The adaptation of Takafumi Takada’s fantasy novel hit Japanese theaters last April. The film
?????????????????80????????????????????? The dojinshi circle Manpuku Jinja released its full-length 16 minute long Touhou Project anime short “Gensou Bankakyou ~The Memories of Phantasm~ Shunsetsu Ihen no Shou” at last
