Publishers Weekly now hosts an exclusive interview with renowned painter Yoshitaka Amano, conducted at last month’s New York Anime Festival. Source: Anime News Network
According to Japan’s Oricon entertainment industry sales data, the first DVD volume of the recently concluded Strike Witches television series has sold nearly 11,000 copies since its September
Question: What do you think of Funimation’s recent decision to only release Red Garden, Welcome to the NHK, and Pumpkin Scissors as two half-season sets only, even though
Curious to know what other anime fans are collecting? Here’s our best selling mainstream and adult anime DVDs of the year so far. See what sells. Find out
The geek by any other name blog now hosts an exclusive interview with voice actress Rie Tanaka (Suigintou in Rozen Maiden, Yomi in Azumanga Daioh). Source: Anime News
Always: Sunset on Third Street director Takashi Yamazaki’s new film, the historical romance drama “Ballad -Namonaki Koi no Uta-” (Ballad: The Nameless Song of Love) reportedly adopts its
The weekly video game review show Bytejacker now hosts coverage of the recent New York Anime Fest in its tenth episode, and a new special episode featuring the
Massachusetts based anime convention Anime Kaiju Experience has announced an open mini-manga/doujinshi contest. Aspiring creators are invited to submit an 8 to 12 page (including front & back
Japan Publications Trading’s book The Akiba: A Manga Guide to Akihabara is scheduled for release next month. Akihabara, the world’s anime otaku hot spot, is just a half-mile
The Japanese Moon Phase Diary fan site reports the uncited and unconfirmed news that Production I.G will develop an anime adaptation of Capcom’s action game series Sengoku Basara,
Anime studio P.A. Works (true tears) will produce an anime adaptation (tentatively, a TV series) of Sega and Chunsoft’s Nintendo Wii visual novel game 428 ~Fuusa Sareta Shibuya
FUNimation’s official homepage for the Darker Than Black anime television series now offers a series trailer and the series’ first three full length episodes, dubbed in English, for
The official homepage for the Junjo Romantica boys love anime television series, based on Shungiku Nakamura’s manga, now hosts a streaming trailer for the first episode of the
The official homepage for the new ef -a tale of melodies- television series now offers the show’s opening animation sequence for direct download in 640×480 & 900×676 Windows
Question: Hello from Japan. I know in most cases American distributors acquire anime titles primarily aimed at Japanese domestic consumers, and I was wondering if they attempt to