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Director and Assistant Director of 'Gurren Lagann' Quit GAINAX
According to the Twitter of Masahiko Ootsuka, director Imaishi Hiroyuki has quit Gainax and launched a new anime production studio with Ootsuka. A short article of the studio will be published in Newtype magazine's November issue. Source: Ootsuka's tweet
15 years ago
Manga Publishers Launch JManga.com
On Wednesday, the platform for legally reading manga online in English, JManga* launched, including licensed and never before published titles in the U.S. JManga enables users to:Browse information on manga works Access bookselling sites Access publishing companies' sites Preview...
15 years ago
Morikawa Toshiyuki Launches Seiyu Agency With Fukuyama Jun
According to the official website, Morikawa, Toshiyuki quit Arts Vision and has launched a new seiyu agency Axl One. Fukuyama Jun also quit Production Baobab and joined Morikawa's new agency. They have founded a seiyu school Axl Zero and will train young seiyu on their own. Morik...
15 years ago
Toei Animation Gets Sued For Copyright Infringement Involving Saint Seiya
According to Anime!Anime!, the US branch of Toei Animation was sued by a US citizen. The person named Isaac A. Potter, JR. clams to the United States District Court of the District of Columbia that Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac) infringes the plaintiff's copyrights and trade...
15 years ago
Production Cost of Sangoku Engi Anime Bankrupts Anime Studio
According to Tokyo Shoko Research, anime production studio Future Planet Co. has gone bankrupt on September 29th. The total amount of debt is one billion yen ($12.3million). Future Planet launched China-Japan joint anime project Saikyou Bushouden - Sangoku Engi in 2005, but the h...
16 years ago
Noitamina Editor To Shave His Head As a Penalty For the Poor Rating
Yamamoto Koji, the chief editor of Noitamina, announced to fulfill his promise made on April 29th that he will have his head shaved if the rating of Noitamina (Saraiya Goyou (pictured) episode 3 and Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei episode 2) is low. The rating on April 29th turned out to...
16 years ago
K-ON! and CLANNAD AS Double TBS Anime Sales
According to Anime!Anime!, Japanese broadcasting company TBS released the statement of accounts for fiscal 2010 3Q (April 2009 - December 2009). The sales of the anime section increased 87% over the last year. Domestic Anime Sales (million yen) 2009(3Q) *,837 2010(3Q) 1,566 Overs...
16 years ago
Kyoto Animation Launches a Creation Award
Anime production studio Kyoto Animation launched "Kyoto Animation Award", an award for the original creations of novels, manga and scripts. Winners of the award will have a chance to get an anime adaptation by Kyoto Animation if the works receive high esteem. Anyone can particip...
17 years ago
Tokyopop To Lose All the Kodansha Titles
According to Mangablog, Tokyopop announced that Kodansha has decided to let all the licensed of manga granted to Tokyopop to expire. Tokyopop will not be allowed to complete the ongoing series nor reprint the sold-out titles. Tokyopop's out of print list Kodansha established a ne...
17 years ago
Toei Launches New Anime Service
Toei Animation is launching a new service in which you can subscribe monthly to "All You Can Watch" anime. It will be launched on September 1st and cost about $13 (USD). There will be over 1000 episodes and 15 series, including: Sailor Moon, Kitaro, and Fist of the North Star. Th...
19 years ago
