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Viz Media has announced that the Cartoon Network will premier Naruto episodes 1 & 2 on Saturday, September 10th from 9 to 10 PM. The episodes will then

ICv2 News has learned that AD Vision has acquired not only North American distribution rights to the live action Japanese comedy program Oh! Mikey, ADV has also acquired

Canadian television network YTV, which airs animation primarily intended for children, has announced plans to broadcast Mew Mew Power, Zatch Bell, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex,

Takara has purchased an 88 percent share of anime studio Tatsunoko Productions. The deal is estimated to be worth more than 1 billion yen ($8.9 million). Tatsunoko Productions

The USA Today newspaper reports that this week’s issue of CosmoGIRL Magazine will contain the debut of a monthly manga-style comic strip by artist Svetlana Chmakova and publisher

Question: Is it wrong to call myself an otaku? Recently, I had saw on the internet a discussion about anime fans. One individual had stated that they disapprove

Hirameki International Group has announced a new line of interactive visual novel games for American release. Ai Yori Aoshi, Piece of Wonder, Ever 17 and Anima Mundi: Dark

AD Vision announced at last weekend’s Anime Expo convention that it has acquired distribution rights to the live action Japanese comedy program Oh! Mikey. The show will apparently

Question: Why are anime artist paid so little? Also why do most anime have less frames of animation than American animation? While the notion of low frame rates

Gekkan Shonen Magazine has announced that Masahito Soda’s award winning Formula-1 automobile racing manga series Capeta will be produced as an anime television series. Moon Phase reports that

At this past weekend’s Anime Expo convention, AD Vision announced plans to distribute the Superdimensional Fortress Macross television series. The series was originally released in America by AnimEigo,

At this past weekend’s Anime Expo, AnimEigo announced plans to re-release the Ah! My Goddess OAV series with new Japanese re-mastered video and most of the bonus features

At this past weekend’s Anime Expo convention, Bandai Entertainment announced its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to the Mai-Hime/My-Hime anime series (Japan’s TV Tokyo television network romanizes the

Apparently sometime last weekend Bandai Entertainment revealed that the company no longer has American distribution rights to the SPT Layzner and Giant Gorg anime series. Source: Anime on

At this past weekend’s Anime Expo convention, Broccoli USA announced that Synch-Point will release the 8 episode Di-Gi-Charat: Leave it to Piyoko OAV series on two DVDs beginning