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Question: I was wondering if there is going to be any more Full metal Panic?

Anime News Network has confirmed with representatives of FUNimation that the One Piece anime is not presently licensed for official English language release. For more than a year,

VIZ has announced plans to begin releasing the 23 volume Kinnikuman manga series in English translated bi-monthly graphic novels. The first “Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy” English translated

Comics One has announced its upcoming release of Sister Red, a gothic drama by Onegai Teacher manga artist Shizuru Hayashiya. The first 200 page graphic novel will be

Bandai Entertainment has announced plans to debut four new collectable card games (CCGs) in America over the next eight months. The SD Gundam CCG will hit retail stores

Kung Fu Cinema has published a lengthy critical, and mostly strongly positive review of the new Japanese DVD release of Ryuhei Kitamura’s live action adaptation of samurai manga

American video game translating company Working Designs has announced that it will release an English translated/dubbed version of the Japanese PS2 strategy RPG Growlanser 2 next spring. The

Question: Although Matrix Trilogy is popular in North America. How popular is it in Japan? Since lots of stuff in Matrix is inspired by anime, I was wondering

TOKYOPOP has announced that the first of (probably) 4 multi-disc DVD sets of the Marmalade Boy TV series. The first set will retail at $99.99 beginning on April

Sega has released the first images of its latest Virtua Fighter game, which oddly isn’t really a Virtua Fighter game at all. Virtua Fighter Cyber Generation: Ambition of

Banpresto has announced its development of a new Dragonball Z fighting game for the Gameboy Advance. The 3-on-3 fighting game will be the first Japanese developed Dragonball video

According to AllHipHop.com, the cult hit South Korean martial arts fantasy movie Volcano High School will premier on MTV on December 21st. However, the film will be “re-worked”

Question: What can you tell me about the popularity of the Yakitate!! Japan manga in Japan? How much is there, and is an anime series in its future?

Movie-Page.com currently hosts the 21 second long teaser trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s 2004 release film Howl’s Moving Castle. The video clip is in AVI format encoded with XviD.

According to its Japanese producer, the fantasy/adventure OAV Munto, the first major production from the Kyoto Animation Studio, has been licensed for English language distribution by Central Park