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To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit to you the cute & catchy opening of the first Mahoujin Guru Guru

Question: Have shojo and shojo archetypes been co-opted by Hollywood? While high school/adolescent angst shows and movies are nothing new in either the U.S. or Japan, I’ve noticed

Crunchyroll has secured limited rights to stream the Bleach anime television series. New weekly Japanese episodes will appear on Crunchyroll beginning with next Tuesday’s episode 274. Crunchyroll subscribers

Warner Bros. Animation has contracted Japanese animation studio 4°C to produce a new ThunderCats animated series for broadcast on the Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network Executive Vice President of

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit to you the nicely animated opening from 1999’s Tenshi ni Narumon television series.

Crunchyroll has begun its subtitled simulcast of the current “Spellbound! Magical Princess Lil’ Pri” (Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri) television anime series. New weekly episodes starting with

An English friendly teaser for writer Katsuhito Ishii and director Takeshi Koike’s sci-fi racing anime film Redline (not to be confused with the similar upcoming production Tailenders) has

A new 3:26 trailer for the upcoming Densetsu no Yusha no Densetsu ~ The Legend of the Legendary Heroes~ television series has appeared on YouTube. Source: Moon Phase

The Japanese city of Kobe is now promoting the original “Kobe to Watashi ~ Kobe & I” anime short created by independent animator Junichi Yamamoto. The short encouraging

TV Asahi has announced that a third Stitch anime series will premiere on July 6th. Stitch! ~Zutto Saiko no Tomodachi~ (Stitch! Absolutely Best Friends) will continue the story

Last March Japanese publisher Hobby Japan released an original English language anime trailer for author Takehaya’s light novel series Rokujoma no Shinryakusha!? that suggested an anime was in

Group Eight, the production company behind last year’s Korean television series Boys Over Flowers – an adaptation of Yoko Kamio’s shoujo manga Hana Yori Dango – is now

The Otona Keikaku performance troupe is preparing a stage play adaptation of the late Fujio Akatsuka’s beloved comedy manga series Tensai Bakabon (Bakabon the Genius). The 1967 manga

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit to you the opening from the 1993 Ghost Sweeper Mikami television series. Chie

Question: In a recent viewing journal entry, you said, “So far, this series [Angel Beats!] strikes me as the epitome of ‘giving fans what they want.’ As long