AnimeNation Anime News Blog

Question: What are some of the best “girls with guns” series?

The datacomp fan blog has published a lengthy English translated exerpt from manga/anime scholar Kaoru Kumi’s 2008 book The Age of Hayao Miyazaki. The exerpt proposes a very

Media Blasters CEO John Sirabella has revealed his company’s acquisition of translation & distribution rights to the Queen’s Blade & Ikkitousen: Great Guardians (Ikkitousen third series) TV anime

The official website for Nami Adachi & Hiroyuki Aihara’s picture book series The Bears’ School (Kuma no Gakkou) has announced that an anime film adaptation will open next

Merchandise solicitations to Japanese retailers from Bandai’s toy division have confirmed a 2010 premiere of a seventh Pretty Cure anime series titled “Heartcatch Precure!” The scant information states

Japan’s Sega Sammy corporation has spent 1 billion yen ($11 million USD) to launch the Bakugan LLP subsidiary that will exclusively handle the hot Bakugan franchise. Initially launched

Sony has released its lists of the most popular anime available on the PlayStation Network last month. Top 10 Anime Movie downloads for October: 01. Bleach the Movie

ComingSoon has secured a first look at the sales flyer for Crystal Sky Pictures’ planned film adaptation of Namco’s Tekken fighting game franchise. The film, first announced in

Question: Why do the opening credits sequences for many anime series feel like they have better quality animation than the actual episodes themselves? Many openers contain animation that

The homepage for the Sekirei anime franchise has added a five minute long anime promotional video promoting the November 4 release of the “Yakusoku I’m with You /

Animate.tv reports that the upcoming Japanese My-HiME Blu-ray Box will include four minutes of new bonus animation. “Kuro no Mai/Saigo no Bansan” (Black Dance/The Last Supper) appears to

Himitsu Kessha Taka no Tsume The Movie 3 ~http://takanotsume.jp wa Eien ni~ (Secret Society Eagle Talon movie 3: Eagle Talon.jp is Forever) will use Scottish vocalist Susan Boyle’s

The official homepage for Studio Rikka’s web anime series The Time of Eve (Eve no Jikan) announced last May that the series’ first four episodes would be compiled

Question: On my perusal of various anime forums over the years, I have found that most people who would call themselves “anime fans” are bombastic, arrogant, ignorant, and/or

The official Japanese homepage for the Bakemonogatari television series has begun streaming the series’ unbroadcast 13th episode. The episode is the first of three that supplement the TV