Anime News

Matsudo City Crime Prevention Poster Featuring Mahou Shoujo

According to Hatena Bookmark News, Matsudo city has made a poster featuring a Mahou Shoujo to publicize the Crime Prevention Week. The poster has been displayed at police stations, train stations and public facilities in the city from June 15th. Matsudo City asked a dojin illustr...

15 years ago

Blu-ray Only Extra Anime of Baka Test 2 and Kamisama Dolls

According to Famitsu, extra short anime will be bundled with each of the six volumes of Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni! Blu-ray & DVD. A spin-off manga of Baka to Test "Sore ga Bokura no Nichijyo." will be animated. The manga has been serialized on Famitsu Comic Clear website sinc...

15 years ago

Japan's Weekly DVD & CD Rankings for Jun 6 - 12

Here are the weekly DVD & CD Rankings for June 6th - 12th. DVD *1, 5,823 *,**5,823 Kimi ni Todoke 2nd Season vol.4 *2, *,904 1,074,603 My Neighbor Totoro *3, *,711 *,**2,521 Tiger & Bunny vol.1 *4, *,425 *,*61,618 Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn vol.3 *5, *,391 *,*18,819 Manga Nihon M...

15 years ago

FUNimation Acquires Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai

According to their official website, FUNimation has acquired the home entertainment, broadcast, digital and merchandise rights to the TV anime series Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai which they will release as "We Without Wings – Under the Innocent Sky". FUNimation will release the 12...

15 years ago

Viz Media Announces U.S. License for Hatsune Miku

According to their official press release, Viz Media has announced its U.S. product licensing rights for Hatsune Miku, the popular Vocaloid virtual pop singer that has become a massive pop culture phenomenon in Japan. Recently, Hatsune Miku appeared on the U.S. market in a 2011 T...

15 years ago

Tekken: Blood Vengeance to Run in US Theaters

According to their official press release, Bandai Entertainment has announced that they will bring Tekken: Blood Vengeance in 3D to more than 375 U.S. movie theaters on July 26 at 7:30 pm local time. Tickets and locations are available at participating box offices and online at h...

15 years ago

Maiden Japan Acquires Glass Maiden

According to their press release, Maiden Japan, a new licensing company that is using Section23 Films as a distributor, has acquired the Spring 2008 TV anime series Glass Maiden. Maiden Japan will release the 12 episode series on English-subtitled DVD and on digital formats. Sour...

15 years ago

Urobuchi Gen To Release New Anime By the End of 2012

According to Weekly Playboy News, scenario writer Urobuchi Gen plans to release some new anime by the end of 2012. He was asked to write a sequel to Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica but he has been irresolute about the offer. He said he wanted to be a novelist but "I have never read an...

15 years ago

Criticism Against Gundam AGE Shocks the Script Writer

Hino Akihiro, the president of game maker Level 5 and the scenario writer of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, posted in his twitter that he was surprised to meet severe criticism against Gundam AGE. He said "We didn't make a perfunctory approach to understand the concept of Gundam. We are...

15 years ago

Anime Tourism of Hanasaku Iroha Revives the Model Spa

According to Hokkoku Newspaper, Yuwaku Hot Spring , the model town of Hanasaku Iroha, has been humming with business since the start of the anime. After the earthquake in March, nearly 1,500 guests have canceled the hotel reservations in Yuwaku but the rooms of all the nine hotel...

15 years ago