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Reportedly AD Vision has placed the continuing release of more than a dozen of its current titles on hiatus in the UK while the company reorganizes to a

Director Makoto Shinkai’s 2007 feature film “5 Centimeters per Second: A Chain of Short Stories About Their Distance” was awarded the grand prize at the recent Future Film

Question: Why don’t domestic anime distributors keep the Region 2 DVD covers? Using the artwork of the Japanese releases, translating the title/logo where necessary, would result in a

Viz Media has announced plans to offer a number of anime titles to potential American television broadcast licensors at this month’s National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE)

Chinese forum QxWar now hosts a selection of stills and behind the scenes photos from the currently in production American feature film adaptation of Production IG’s Blood: The

Question: Is there reason to hope that the Dragonball movie would be a quality movie (obviously an incredibly subjective question)? I’d assume the special effects are there, but

ICv2 now hosts an extended, revealing interview with FUNimation founder and CEO Gen Fukunaga in which Mr. Fukunaga discusses the state of the anime industry in America and

The official ToLove-Ru (pronounced as “Toraburu”) homepage now hosts a small resolution trailer for the upcoming ToLove-Ru anime television series. The trailer is also available in higher resolution

Japanese home entertainment distribution company King Records has announced that the 2007 Evangelion Shin Gekijouban: Jou motion picture will be released on Japanese DVD in April. The film

Japanese fan site Moon Phase reports the unconfirmed news that Minari Endo’s romantic comedy manga series Maria Holic will debut as an anime series in January 2009.

Reportedly the current issue of Magazine Special, published by Kodansha, contains an announcement that Takeru Nagayoshi’s comedy manga series Sumire Sixteen!! (Sumire 16-Sai!!) will be adapted into a

Question: Why doesn’t the American fan community know Nasu: Andulusia no Natsu and its sequel? They are excellent films.

Question: Is it unethical for anime fans to buy used anime and manga goods? After all, used good sales don’t support the original creators, right?

Although Shueisha’s Cobalt Magazine first announced plans for the production of a fourth Maria-sama ga Miteru anime series in July 2007, the official Maria-sama ga Miteru homepage has

Novelist and screenwriter Jinzo Toriumi died of liver cancer on Thursday morning at a hospital in Shinjuku. He was 78. A funeral service will be held on the