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DVD Vision Japan has published new reviews of Anime Play Magazine issue 4 and the first two English dubbed episodes of World of Narue.

Question: What are the chances of letting someone outside of Japan become an official manga artist? Also, how hard is it exactly to become a manga-ka?

The Asahi Newspaper has reported the intriguing news that Warner Brothers has acquired American distribution rights to the new Yu-Gi-Oh movie. (Apparently there is a new, second Yu-Gi-Oh

AD Vision has announced a number of new anime and manga acquisitions: Anime: Get Backers, Mezzo TV series, and Hello Kitty Sanrio World. Manga: Gate, Yo-u, Gadjet, Dream

Mr. Dallas Middaugh, Del Rey Books’ Director of Manga, has made the following public announcement: NEGIMA, Volume 1: Magister Negi, by Ken Akamatsu, will be published by Del

The official Japanese Innocence homepage now hosts a new 5:32 long trailer in streaming Windows Media format. The trailer is available in small, medium, and large resolutions. Source:

The romantic sci-fi comedy manga series DearS by “Peach-Pit” is to be adapted into an anime television series for broadcast this July. A report on the TA Group

Japan’s Futabasha Publishing has announced the March 2nd debut release of Comic High, the first monthly manga magazine of shoujo (girls’) manga intended for male readers. The magazine

DVD Vision Japan and Anime News Network both now host original interviews with Robert Silva, the new Editor In Chief of Anime Play Magazine.

Question: Why are region 2 Japanese DVDs so expensive?

Bandai has scheduled release dates for a pair of American series debuts. Dragon Drive DVD volume 1 will premier on May 11 as a $24.98 standard DVD and

Konami has officially announced plans to develop a new hero anime multimedia project titled “Get Ride! Amdriver.” The project will include an anime TV series produced by Studio

Toei Animation now hosts full length movie trailers for the recently released St. Seiya Hades Chapter movie in streaming Real Media & Windows Media and the upcoming fifth

The Yomiuri Newspaper has confirmed that Innocence (Ghost in the Shell 2) will screen theatrically in 10 major American cities this fall. The film will also see a

Question: What series started the whole cosmic battle anime genre like DBZ and S-cry-ed?