Next week’s issue of Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine will formally announce that the Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen (Inuyasha Final Chapter) TV series will debut this fall. The staff and cast
Viz Media has announced English translation plans for four new manga titles originally published in Shogakukan’s Ikki Magazine. Saturn Apartments, Kingyo Used Books, Afterschool Charisma, and Tokyo Flow
Starz Media’s Chiller television network has launched an “Ani-Monday” programming block that airs violence and horror themed anime from Starz Media owned licensing company Manga Entertainment. Tokko and
Nagoya TV’s official homepage for Sunrise Studio’s Battle Spirits anime television series has formally announced that the new TV series Battle Spirits: Shounen Gekiha Dan will premiere on
The Japanese Moon Phase fan site reports that publisher Takeshobo has confirmed the development of an anime OVA adaptation of Mizushina Takayuki’s 4-koma manga series Kemono to Chat,
Soreike! Anpanman has formally attained the Guinness World Record for largest number of characters in an animated series. As of March 27, Guinness World Records credited the Anpanman
Japan’s otaku community was abuzz early this week when manga artist Yoshikawa Hideaki confirmed that publisher Square Enix had evidently expunged his risqué fantasy manga series Akuma to
In September 2008 anime studio Radix mobanimation filed suit against production company Micott & Basara, alleging that Micott & Basara had contracted Radix to create an Appleseed: Genesis
Popular online lesbian community website Afterellen.com has begun streaming the current girl-love themed anime television series Aoi Hana. The video is mirrored from Crunchyroll. The Afterellen website attracts
Nippon Animation has opened an official website for its upcoming anime adaptation of Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod and Olivier Tallec’s French picture book series Rita et Machin. The storybook series
Studio Ghibli’s official “Itsumo no Ghibli Nikki” (“The Habitual Ghibli Diary”) blog has announced that the studio’s next feature film will hit Japanese theaters next year. The studio
Viz Pictures has picked up domestic distribution rights to the 2009 live action fantasy comedy film Battle League Horumo. Director Katsuhide Motoki’s (Kitaro and the Millennium Curse) live
The Kyoto Seika University established Japan’s first formal curriculum in manga study in 2000. In 2006 the university established a formal manga and anime study department, known as
Question: Why do a lot of yuri anime/manga series feel the need to include a gimmick to sanction the relationship, such as an all-girl boarding school (e.g. “The
