Anime News

Announcement of New Gundam Series Due on June 13th

According to Bandai, a new Gundam series will be announced at a press conference to be held on June 13th at 1:30pm JST. The conference will be streamed live on Bandai Channel Live (http://live.b-ch.com/). Source: Gundam.info

15 years ago

OVA of IS: Infinite Stratos Announced

According to the official twitter, an OVA of IS: Infinite Stratos was announced to be released on November 25th. The title is "IS encore 'Koi ni Kogareru Sextet'". Screenshots of IS OVA (Amazon Japan) Source: IS official twitter IS: Infinite Stratos Encore: Koi ni Kogareru Sextet...

15 years ago

NY Times Manga Best Seller List for May 22nd - 28th

Graphic books best seller list (Manga & OEL) for May 22nd - 28th 1, Magical Teacher Negima!, Vol.29 2, Maximum Ride, Vol.4 3, Black Bird, Vol.8 4, Black Butler, Vol.5 5, Shugo Chara!, Vol.10 6, Fairy Tail, Vol.13 7, Blue Exorcist, Vol.1 8, Rosario + Vampire Season II, Vol.4 9, Ar...

15 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Rankings for May 23 - 29

Here are the weekly manga & light novels rankings for May 23rd - 29th. ranks/ this week's sales by copies/ cumulative sales/ titles Manga *1, 134,466 *,134,466 Billy Bat vol.6 *2, 120,999 *,121,804 Genshiken Nidaime vol.1 *3, 115,978 *,115,978 Deadman Wonderland vol.10 *4, *82,26...

15 years ago

24 Year Old Man Arrested For Threatening VA Hirano Aya

According to FNN News, a 24 year old blue-collar worker was arrested for posting threatening comments to Hirano Aya on 2channel BBS. Tokyo Metropolitan Police said he has already confessed to the crime. He had been complaining about Fuji TV's variety program Pikaru no Teiri, whic...

15 years ago

Japan's Light Novels Rankings for 1st Half of Fiscal 2011

Here are the light novels sales rankings for the first half of the fiscal 2011. Volume by volume (copies) *1, 962,495 Moshidora *2. 240,443 One Piece Strong Words vol.1 *3, 223,124 Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu vol.9 *4, 206,086 Toaru Majutsu no Index: New Testament vol.1 *5, 205,32...

15 years ago

Japan's Manga Rankings for 1st Half of Fiscal 2011

Here are the manga sales ranking for the first half of the fiscal 2011. (Dec 6th 2010 - May 30th 2011) Volume by volume (copies) *1, 3,133,092 One Piece vol.61 *2, 2,698,663 One Piece vol.62 *3, 1,178,643 Naruto vol.54 *4, 1,120,177 Kimi ni Todoke vol.13 *5, 1,113,444 Fullmetal A...

15 years ago

Japan's Weekly DVD & CD Rankings for May 16 - 22

Here are the weekly DVD & CD rankings for May 16th - 22nd. DVD *5, 9,574 9,574 Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica vol.2 Limited Edition DVD ver. *9, 7,762 7,762 IS: Infinite Stratos vol.2 DVD ver. 12, 6,697 6,697 Hetalia World Series vol.6 Limited Edition 15, 6,123 6,123 Kuroshitsuji II...

15 years ago

Anime Director's Regret For Failure of Yumekui Merry Disappoints Manga Author

Mangaka Ushiki Yoshitaka posted on his twitter that he was disappointed to read a report of director Yamauchi Shigeyasu's talk session about Yumekui Merry. In the report, Yamauchi confessed that he failed to wrap up the story of the anime. He said, "I don't understand the concept...

15 years ago

TV Anime of Manga Chihayafuru Announced

According to Mainichi News, the manga Chihayafuru was announced to be getting a TV anime adaptation. It will start this October. Manga Chihayafuru has won the 2nd Manga Taisho in 2009 and the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in 2011. Source: Mainichi Chihayafuru on MAL

15 years ago