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To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the second opening from 1986’s St. Seiya TV series. The theme song is

Question: I’ve been away from the R1 anime DVD scene for the past few years and want to get back into it. Is there anything I would just

Japanese publisher Kodansha has announced that exerpted footage from an anime promotional video for Mayu Shinjo’s latest manga series, Elite!! ~Expert Latitudinous Investigation Team~, will premiere on November

After releasing the first individual DVD volume of Kanokon on May 25 then placing the remaining two volumes on indefinite hiatus, Media Blasters has now announced plans to

Media Blasters has launched the first of a planned 101 nationwide automated Rareflix branded DVD/BD rental kiosks heavily skewed toward anime. The $1 to $2 per night disc

Vertical has announced, via Facebook, that last weekend’s announcement of acquisition of publishing rights to Usamaru Furuya’s manga No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku), based on the classic Osamu

Musician Sinitus Tempo has released his Samurai Champloo & Nujabes tribute album “Born Legends EP” for free online streaming and download.

China Lion Film Distribution Inc. has signed an exclusive distribution deal with the AMC theater chain that will see up to 15 Chinese langauge films per year released

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the kinetic second opening of last year’s Basquash! TV series. The theme song

Question: After reading the latest preview to some show, which included a line saying “revolves around an exceptional student attending an elite school for geniuses,” I can’t help

Hokkaido-based independent animation studio Picograph has released a new “short” trailer for its long in development sci-fi racing anime short film Tailenders. Tailenders has been in development since

The first trailer for the upcoming cute boy(s) in skirts anime Mayoelle Otokonoko has been added to YouTube. I can’t distinguish which of the characters are boys. All

Manga creator Shintaro Miyawaki passed away due to a heart attack on October 9 at 9:33 p.m. in Niiza, Saitama, Japan. He was 67. Miyawaki may be best

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the stylish opening of 1983’s Kiko Soseiki Mospeada TV series. The theme song

Question: Is South Park considered loli and ecchi? A lot of people are embarrassed to admit they watch shows like Mitsudomoe because people might label them as pedos.