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Ain’t It Cool News now hosts an exclusive interview with Ring director Hideo Nakata.

Question: Why is it that when there is romance in an anime situation, one [character] is always melodramatic while the other one is baffled? Typically the girl (what

According to the latest issue of industry trade publication Home Media Retailing Magazine, the Nielsen VideoScan ratings report that 1.4% of the variety of home video genres released

FUNimation has announced plans to re-release the Dragon Ball Z movie 1: Dead Zone on May 31 at a $24.98 retail price. Source: Anime on DVD

According to Moon Phase, the first episode of the second Stratos 4 OAV series, Stratos 4 Advance: Code 201 Wave Off, will air on the Japanese Kids Station

Japanese software company Alegria Corporation has announced a new addition to its “IncrediMail WOW” line, “Shin Seiki Evangelion Tsushin Keikaku” (Neon Genesis Evangelion Mail Project). The E-mail program

Sony Pictures Classics has informed AnimeNation that Stephen Chow’s international hit action comedy film Kung Fu Hustle will officially debut in America with five screening throughout the currently

Question: Assuming you don’t know spoken Japanese well, why would any foreigner (non-Japanese person) want to see anime not translated into their primary tongue?

Adult Swim anime programming director Kim Manning revealed several details about the Cartoon Network’s forthcoming plans for anime. The Cartoon Network has licened all 167 episodes of Inuyasha

Apparently both Bandai Visual and Toei of Japan are beginning to take steps to distribute their Japanese created and owned anime titles to international customers directly instead of

FUNimation has scheduled the American DVD release of several new titles: Dragon Ball Z: Broly Second Coming [DBZ movie 10] – $24.98 – available April 5 Dragon Ball

TOKYOPOP has formally revealed its acquisition of translation rights to Harold Sakuishi’s manga series Beck. The first volume will be released domestically on July 12. Source: Anime on

The official French website for Hayao Miyazaki’s film Howl no Ugoku Shiro (Howl’s Moving Castle) now hosts a Quicktime trailer for the film in three different resolutions in

Three anime films were recognized at the 59th Annual Mainichi Film Awards, sponsored by the Mainichi Newspaper and the Sports Nippon Newspaper. Studio 4C’s film Mind Game was

DVD Vision Japan has published 8 new reviews: Initial D DVD volume 8 Ronin Warriors: New Adventures Lingeries (adult anime) Bullet Ballet (full release version) hyde: Roentgen Stories