Udon Entertainment will release the first ever English translation of Mami Itou’s (Pilgrim Jäger) 2-volume Street Fighter Gaiden manga series beginning November 24. The spin-off series is an
61 year old Fairy Princess Minky Momo creator Takeshi Shudo suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage in his head and collapsed in the Nara railway station’s smoking section yesterday. He
Anime production studio Fanworks has “tweeted” that Nippon Animation president Koichi Motohashi recently passed away at the age of 80. Motohashi executive produced numerous anime titles including Chibi
The Sankei Sports newspaper reports that three scripts from legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) have recently been rediscovered. All three date from the director’s early career, before he
Taking inspiration from director Neil Blomkamp’s early work, Canadian film maker Sean Wainsteim’s music video for You Say Party’s new single “Lonely’s Lunch” is a darn neat slice
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the nice second opening from 1994’s Sailor Moon S TV series. The opening
Funimation has announced plans to begin simulcasting the current Princess Jellyfish (Kuragehime) television anime this Thursday and the current Heaven’s Lost Property Season Two (Sora no Otoshimono Forte)
Zeitgeist Films has scheduled a December 7 release for its Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor & Other Fantastic Films DVD featuring 13 short independent anime from acclaimed animator/director
The advertising obi found on new copies of the fifth volume of Amazume Ryuta’s 2008 manga series Nana to Kaoru reveal that both an anime OAD adaptation and
Variety reports that director James Cameron has formally signed an agreement with 20th Century Fox to make Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 his next two directing projects. The
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Genki Kawamura, the producer behind the hit 2005 romance film Densha Otoko (Train Man), reveals that, “We’ve had about 20 remake
Godzilla Versus The Smog Monster director Yoshimitsu Banno has confirmed plans to produce a 40 minute long Gamera 3D film for a spring 2012 Japanese IMAX and regular
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening (and ending) of the Goku no Daiboken TV series from 1967.