Anime News

OVA of Fairy Tail Announced

According to Animate, an OVA of Fairy Tail, "Fairy Tail: Youkoso Fairy Hills!" will be bundled with the manga volume 26 special edition. It will be released on April 15th 2011. The OVA will animated the extra chapter of the manga "Youkoso Fairy Hills" published in Magazine SPECIA...

15 years ago

Wao World Produces Original Anime For Elderly Audience

Think Corporation and Wao World have announced original anime movie & TV series "Showa Monogatari". The movie will be premiered on January 29th and the TV series will start next April. The target audience are elderly people in their sixties or older. Showa Monogatari official we...

15 years ago

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New Series of Yu-Gi-Oh! Announced [Update Dec 13]

According to Weekly Shonen Jump, a new series of Yu-Gi-Oh! will be announced at a special rerun of Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time to be held on February 20th. Source: Scan of WSJ Updated on December 13th Title: Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL Airing: April 11, 2011 Staff Director: Kuwahara Sato...

15 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking for Nov 29 - Dec 5

Here is the weekly manga sales ranking for November 29th - December 5th. *1, 462,154 *,462,154 Bleach vol.48 *2, 243,912 *,455,424 Yotsuba&! vol.10 *3, 215,177 *,215,777 D.Gray-man vol.21 *4, 188,618 *,188,618 Gintama vol.37 *5, 180,760 *,180,760 Katekyo Hitman Reborn! vol.32 *6,...

15 years ago

Director Sato Junichi's Original Anime Phi Brain Announced

According to the official website, NHK announced an original TV anime "Phi Φ Brain ~Kami no Puzzle". The 25 episode series will start next autumn. Phi Brain official website Staff Original work: Yatate Hajime Director: Sato Junichi Series composition: Sekijima Mayori Production S...

15 years ago

Kadokawa Shoten To Boycott Tokyo International Anime Fair

Inoue Shin-ichiro, the president of Kadokawa Shoten, announced in his twitter that Kadokawa will boycott Tokyo International Anime Fair 2011(TAF2010) to protest against the anime & manga regulation bill submitted by Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The chairperson of TAF executive...

15 years ago

Japan's Weekly DVD & CD Rankings for Nov 29 - Dec 5

Here is the weekly DVD sales ranking for November 29th - December 5th. **, 39,055 39,055 (Toy Story 3) *1, 10,594 10,594 Sengoku Basara Two vol.3 *2, 3,851 26,609 Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st Limited Edition **, *,*** **,*** (Toy Story 2 Special Edition) **, *,*** **...

15 years ago

[Topic Closed]ufotable To Produce Type Moon Anime Next Year

Please move to the new thread below! ufotable to Animate Novel Fate/zero #===================================================== According to Newtype magazine, a new Type-moon anime produced by ufotable will be announced in the next issue of the magazine to be released on January...

15 years ago

Comedy Manga Ago Nashi Gen to Ore Monogatari To Be Animated

According to Kodansha, Hiramoto Akira's comedy manga "Ago Nashi Gen to Ore Monogatari" was announced to get an anime adaptation. The 24 episode series will be aired on mobile phone channel BeeTV from December 20th. Ago Nashi Gen manga official website Synopsis: Gen is a 32 year-o...

15 years ago

Director Hosoda Mamoru Nominated for Annie Award

According to the official website, ASIFA-Holly Wood announced the nominees of the 38th annual Annie Awards. Director Hosoda Mamoru was nominated in "Directing in a Feature Production" category. The winners will be announced on February 5th 2011. Nominees in the film director cate...

15 years ago

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