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
Media Blasters has revealed its acquisition of distribution rights to the 2008 risqué supernatural romantic comedy anime series Kanokon by way of an announcement that the first DVD
Hulu has begun offering free streams of subtitled Kekkaishi episodes 1, 2, & 5. Viz announced its acquisition of the 52 episode supernatural adventure anime series in July
The advertising obi on copies of the second collected volume of Namori’s bishoujo manga series Yuruyuri announces the development of an anime TV series based on the manga.
The Nikkei Newspaper reports that Sega Toys will begin distributing Zhu Zhu Pets artificial hamster toys in Japan this April. An original Japanese manga based on the franchise
Daisuke Gouri (real name: Yoshio Nagahori), the voice actor best known to American anime fans as the voice of Dragon Ball Z character Mr. Satan, was found lying
The homepage for the upcoming Insect Detective Yoshida Yoshimi (Konchu Tantei Yoshida Yoshimi) live action motion picture has added a streaming trailer. The nonsense gag comedy about a
We wanted to pass along notice to and from our South Australian friends that the Angus & Robertson Edwardstown book store now carries a full selection of manga!
