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Hideaki Sorachi’s popular comedy adventure manga serial Gintama will premier as an anime television series this April. Official websites for the anime have been opened by Sunrise and

Madhouse Studios has announced plans to produce a 13 episode anime adaptation of Santa Inoue’s manga series Tokyo Tribes 2. The anime will debut this fall. Source: Moon

During last weekend’s Ushicon convention, AD Vision announced its acquisition of the “UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie OVA series” (possibly the 6 episode UFO Princess Valkyrie: Seiretsu no Hanayome OAV

At the recent NATPE Conference (National Association of Television Program Executives), Viz Media was reportedly seeking to sell American television broadcast rights to the Mar ~ Marchen Awakens

Del Rey has scheduled release dates for two new English translated manga titles. Air Gear volume 1, by Oh! Great, will retail at $10.95 beginning July 25th. Suzuka

Navarre subsidiary BCI has acquired American DVD rights to the 1966 Ultraman live action television series, and the 1980 “Shadow Warriors” (Hattori Hanzo: Kage No Gundan) series starring

ICv2 News predicts that there will be more English translated manga and manhwa releases in America in 2006 than there were in 2005. America’s most prolific publishers, TOKYOPOP

Japanese anime studio Office AO now hosts a small resolution video sample of its artistic, experimental animation Ukihune. Source: Moon Phase

The official site for Square Enix’s sword & sorcerery MMORPG Fantasy Earth: The Ring of Dominion hosts three streaming Flash trailers. Japanese gaming news site 4Gamer hosts large,

Question: Is lolicon still legal in the U.S.? It seems that recently the topic has become heated on various forums that there was a change in 2005 to

Bandai Visual USA has announced that its first DVD release, Patlabor the Movie, will be released on April 25th. Reportedly the movie will be released as a $29.98

Central Park Media has revealed that the Animation Runner Kuromi 2 OVA will be released on American DVD on May 9th. CPM will also be releasing a domestic

Harmony Gold now hosts a QuickTime teaser trailer for its Korean/American co-produced animated series Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. Source: Anime on DVD

Seven Seas Entertainment has announced plans to publish a 5 issue mini-series of original Speed Racer comics beginning this July. The Speed Racer mini-series will mark Seven Seas’

e frontier has announced the release of Manga Studio 3.0, a manga and comic book creation software program designed for aspiring and professional artists. Manga Studio contains everything