Anime News

Chinese Government To Acquire Licenses of Japanese Anime To Eliminate Piracy

According to Iza News, the Chinese government will acquire the airing rights of Japanese anime and open a website exclusively used for streaming the anime programs. The Chinese Copyrights Protection Center will play the major role in the negotiations with the Japanese producers a...

14 years ago

Live Action TV Drama of 'Mirai Nikki' Announced

According to Sanspo.com, a live action TV drama of Mirai Nikki was announced to be aired from April. The title is "Mirai Nikki -Another:World-" and Okada Masaki will play the protagonist. The name of the protagonist was changed from Amano Yukiteru to Hoshino Shinta. Source: Sansp...

14 years ago

Live Action

Sentai Filmworks Licenses Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works

According to their official press release, Sentai Filmworks has licensed Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works. Sentai will release the movie digitally and on DVD and Blu-ray later this year. Source: Press release

14 years ago

Licenses

Urobuchi Gen To Send a Protest Message to Tokyo Anime Award Committee

Urobuchi Gen tweeted that he has been perplexed by the announcement of the Tokyo Anime Award 2012, in which he won the Best Scenario Writer award. According to him, the announcement was made without his approval. He said "Tokyo government praised me 'Your script is great!' while...

14 years ago

Anime Awards

Winners of the 2012 Tokyo Anime Awards Announced

The winners of the Tokyo Anime Award have been announced for 2012. Animation of the Year Kokurikozaka Kara Best TV Series Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica and Tiger & Bunny Best Domestic Film Kokurikozaka Kara Best Foreign Film Tangled Best OVA Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Individual Awa...

14 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Rankings for Feb 6 - 12

Here are the weekly manga & light novels rankings for February 6th - 12th. Ranks/ This week's sales by copies/ Cumulative sales/ Titles Manga *1, 617,760 2,552,721 One Piece vol.65 *2, 213,047 *,881,727 Naruto vol.59 *3, 121,006 *,318,060 Toriko vol.18 *4, 119,986 *,329,746 Ginta...

14 years ago

An Announcer of Japan's National TV Channel Makes a Live Report in Tiger & Bunny's Cosplay

On the Nagano branch evening news program of NHK on February 15th, the announcer Matsuoka Tadayuki made a live report of a local figure factory. In the report, he was in the costume of Barnaby Brooks Jr. ("Tiger & Bunny"). Although the factory produces some figures of anime, the...

14 years ago

TV Anime of Four-panel Manga 'Shiba Inuko-san' Announced

At the end of Recorder to Randoseru episode 7, four-panel manga "Shiba Inuko-san" was announced to get a TV anime adaptation. Shiba Inuko-san PR club Story: Shiba Inuko-san is a 14-year-old girl who looks exactly like a Shiba Inu dog. One of her classmates, Ishibashi Chako, wonde...

14 years ago

Otome Game 'Hanayaka nari, Waga Ichizoku' To Be Animated

According to the cover of B's Log magazine April issue, IDEA Factory's adventure otome game on PSP "Hanayaka nari, Waga Ichizoku" was announced to get an anime adaptation. Hanayaka nari, Waga Ichizoku game official website Synopsis: The story takes place in Japan in the early 191...

14 years ago

Anime Singer Shimokawa Mikuni and VA Koyama Tsuyoshi Get Married

Seiyu Koyama Tsuyoshi has announced on his official blog that he got married to anime song singer Shimokawa Mikuni. Koyama is 44 years old and Shimokawa is 31. Source: Koyama's blog

14 years ago

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