Anime News

88% of One Piece Readers Are Adults

Japan's national broadcasting organization NHK featured the popularity of manga One Piece in its news program "Today's Close-up". According to the report, 88% of the readers are adults and 13% are older than fifty years old. Chart: Demographics of One Piece Readers The program co...

15 years ago

DVD Only Original Animation of Kimi ni Todoke

According to the official website of the Kimi ni Todoke anime, a DVD only original animation short, titled "Mini Todo Gekijō Sono 1 'Umederera,'" will be included in the second DVD volume of the second season. The second DVD volume will ship on April 6. Source: Official website K...

15 years ago

TV Anime of Sergent Frog To End in March

According to Sunrise, the TV series of Keroro Gunso (Sergeant Frog) will end by the end of March. Sunrise implied in the announcement that the airing will be resumed in the future. A special one-hour program will be aired on March 27th. Keroro Gunso has been aired on TV Tokyo sin...

15 years ago

18 Year Old Boy Arrested For Sharing 3,800 Manga Scans via MegaUpload

According to Association of Copyright for Computer Software (ACCS), a 18 year old student was arrested for uploading manga scans to an online storage MEGAUPLOAD. He had been running a private blog "Manga.jp" and sharing the scans with a total of 2.5 million people. There were 3,8...

15 years ago

MADHOUSE Studios Sold to Nihon TV

According to MyCom Journal, Japanese major TV company Nihon TV has acquired all the one billion yen of the new stock shares of Madhouse Studios and incorporated the studio as its subsidiary. The former parent company Index Holdings will concentrate their resources on mobile games...

15 years ago

Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Manga To Be Resumed This March

The fifth issue of Kodansha's Evening magazine will announce the addition of new manga titles into their magazine. One of these includes the manga series Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, which has been on hiatus since August 2010. Viz Media has licensed all of the Battle Angel Ali...

15 years ago

Japan's Weekly DVD & CD Rankings for Jan 31 - Feb 6

Here are the weekly DVD & CD rankings for January 31st - February 6th. DVD *1, 18,974 18,974 Kara no Kyoukai: Epilogue *2, *9,538 *9,538 Sengoku Basara Two vol.5 *3, *5,261 27,381 One Piece Log "Arabasta" *4, *4,918 26,101 One Piece Log "Vivi" **, *2,834 *2,834 (Hakuouki live act...

15 years ago

SUNRISE To Animate Light Novel Kyokaisenjyo no Horizon [Update Apr 7]

According to Dengeki, Kawakami Monoru's light novel "Kyokaisenjyo no Horizon" was announced to be getting an anime adaptation. The production studio is SUNRISE.Cover art of Horizon volume 1Trailer of the anime (Youtube) Kyokaisenjyo no Horizon is well-known because of the thickne...

15 years ago

Light Novel Kami-sama no Memo-cho To Be Animated [Update Apr 7]

According to Dengeki, Sugii Hikaru's mystery novel "Kami-sama no Memo-cho" was announced to be getting an anime adaptation. Kami-sama no Memo-cho drama CD website A manga adaptation has been serialized in Comic Dengeki Daioh since June 2010. Synopsis: Fujishima Narumi is a plain...

15 years ago

K-ON! Manga To Be Resumed This Spring

According to Manga Time Kirara, manga K-ON! will be resumed this Spring. More information will be announced in the next issue of the magazine. Source: Scan of Kirara

15 years ago