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Official Free-to-Shout Final Run of Lyrical Nanoha Movie

Cine Libre Umeda announced the final showing of Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st on April 23rd. The audience are allowed to shout, sing, clap hands, and swing glow sticks at the theater. There has been two similar events held by Nanoha fans but this will be the first off...

16 years ago

Tight Production Schedule of Mayoi Neko Overrun

Kawase Kohei, the producer of Geneon Universal Entertainment, posted in his twitter that the episode 4 of Mayoi Neko Overrun! was completed at 8pm on April 20th, JST, only one week before the airing. According to Presepe news, the director of Mayoi Neko is switched in every episo...

16 years ago

Challenge of So Ra No Wo To: Did it make it or not?

Arimura Yu, a freelance writer, wrote an article about So Ra No Wo To for an online magazine Men's Cyzo. He researched whether the first title of "Anime no Chikara" project was successful or not. Last summer, TV Tokyo and Aniplex launched a new timeslot "Anime no Chikara", which...

16 years ago

ufotable Creates a PR Poster of Japan Self Defense Force

According to the official website, anime production studio ufotable created a PR poster for the recruitment of Japan Self Defense Force (JSDF) officials. It's requested by JSDF Tokushima Provincial Cooperation Office. ufotable's poster of JSDF It reads "The more you know, the mor...

16 years ago

Producer of Robotech, Carl Macek Passes Away

According to Cartoonbrew, Carl Macek, the producer of Robotech, passed away of heart attack on April 18th. He was 58 years old. Carl Macek created Robotech with Harmony Gold USA in 1985 by combining Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada. Sou...

16 years ago

Light Novel Hidan no Aria To Be Animated [Update Dec 21]

According to the cover note of the novel, Akamatsu Chugaku's light novel Hidan no Aria (Aria the Scarlet Ammo) was announced to get a TV anime adaptation. Hidan no Aira is a gun action, school battle and love comedy novel and has been published from Media Factory since 2008. A ma...

16 years ago

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Kids Anime Movie Omae Umasoudana Announced

According to mi:te.jp, Miyanishi Tatsuya's picture book "Omae Umasoudana (You Are Umasou)" was announced to get an anime movie adaptation. It will be premiered this October. Omae Umasodana key illustrations Cast: Mother: Harada Tomoyo (Tao in Genma Taisen) Umasou: Kato Seishiro (...

16 years ago

[Retracted] National Hockey League Seeks Partnerships With Japanese Anime Studios

This story turned out to be false. Source: Yahoo Sports Information credit: zombieguy #================================= According to Bleacher Report, National Hockey League (NHL) commissioner Gray Bettman admitted the leaked document about the negotiations between the League Off...

16 years ago

Manga Sales In North America Continue To Decline

ICv2 released the annual report on the manga market in North America. The yearly sales of Japanese manga in 2009 was $140 million, 80% of the previous year. The manga market has shrunk into two-thirds of its peak since 2007. In contrast, the sales of the non-manga graphic novels...

16 years ago

Producer of Noitamina Apologizes For Poor Rating of Saraiya Goyou

Yamamoto Koji, the producer of Noitamina, apologized to the staff for the low rating of Saraiya Goyou in his twitter. According to his post, the rating of the episode 1 was 1.5%, which was considerably low compared to other Noitamina series (eg. Nodame Cantabile Finale: 3.9%, Tok...

16 years ago