Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the Gintama, Hidamari Sketch x 365, Asatte no Houkou, and Le Portrait de Petite Cossette anime series. Sentai
Bandai Entertainment has announced that its Kanngai DVD complete collection will hit mass market on April 6 at a $59.98 SRP. The two discs contained in this DVD
The Hana Kappa anime TV series, based on Tadashi Akiyama’s children’s manga Hana Kappa-kun, will premiere on the NHK-Educational public television channel on March 29. New episodes will
The seventh volume of Kanata Konami’s Chi’s Sweet Home manga will be released on April 23 in a regular edition and a limited edition that includes an exclusive
Japanese Flash animation studio, in collaboration with the regional government of the northern Japanese prefecture of Aomori and the non-profit organization Jomonism, is producing an anime adaptation of
Starchild’s official homepage for the current Hanamaru Youchien anime television series now hosts a 90 second workprint video of the “Panda Neko Taiso” (Panda Cat Calisthenics) exercise video.
Pop Japan Travel is now accepting reservations for participation in its 2010 Tokyo International Anime Fair Tour. The tour will include visits to Akihabara and Nakano Broadway, admission
Connecticon, Connecticut’s largest pop-culture convention of 2010, has announced its first round of guests. Voice actors Carlos Ferro and Daniel Kevin Harrison, as well as several webcomic artists
Question: How do you think today’s landscape of anime differs from the landscape of, say, 15 years ago? What kinds of series, movies and OAVs were more prevalent
Pop vocalist and anime voice actress Nana Mizuki’s latest single, “Phantom Minds,” was Japan’s best selling song last week, moving 54,000 copies during its debut week of release.
Actress Chiaki Kuriyama, possibly best known to Americans for her performance as Go Go Yubari in Kill Bill Volume 1, will make her professional singing debut as “CHiAKi
On February 1st Japanese online game development studio Gonzo Rosso will formally change its name to “Rosso Index.” The studio, founded in 1963, was acquired by Gonzo Digimation
Japan Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection in one of the biggest corporate failures in Japanese history. Asia’s biggest airline reported last October that it faced 1.5 trillion
