Anime News

OVA of Manga Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu Announced

According to Natalie, Minami Kanan's manga Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu was announced to get an OVA adaptation. It will be bundled with manga volume 9 to be released this summer. Staff Director: Yamauchi Shigeyasu Production Studio: J.C. Staff Source: Natalie

16 years ago

Osaka Prefecture Considers To Regulate Boys Love Manga

Osaka Prefecture, the central region of Western Japan, has announced that they will investigate the current situation of books describing sexual expressions of minors (under 18) regardless if they are actual persons or fictitious characters. They specifically mentioned manga maga...

16 years ago

Funimation Acquires Higashi no Eden Movies and Spice and Wolf II

According to AnimeNewsNetwork, Funimation announced at Anime Boston 2010 that they have acquired following new titles: Higashi no Eden Recap Movie - Air Communication Higashi no Eden - Movie I: The King of Eden Higashi no Eden - Movie II: Paradise Lost Spice and Wolf II Chobits S...

16 years ago

Licenses

Studio 4°C Produces a PR Anime of Tokyo City

According to Anime!Anime!, The Tourism Bureau of Tokyo Metropolitan city started to stream a PR anime "Honey Tokyo". It's part of their publicity project "Welcome to Tokyo". Honey Tokyo official website (English) The anime has subtitles in English, Chinese, Korean, German, Italia...

16 years ago

August's Adult PC Game Fortune Arterial To Be Animated

According to the official online ad of Monthly Comptiq magazine May issue, August's adult PCgame "Fortune Arterial" was announced to get an anime adaptation. Forune Arterial game official website FA on English Wikipedia Fortune Arterial game was released in January 2008 and its m...

16 years ago

New Digimon Series Revealed [Update Apr 19]

According to a figure shop Fumuo de Pon website, a new TV series of Digimon was revealed. Mobile phone straps of new digimon monsters will be released by Bandai this July. Name of the new monsters: Shout-mon Doruru-mon Barista-mon Gray-mon Monitor-mon Source: Fumuo Updated on Apr...

16 years ago

Manga The World God Only Knows To Be Animated

According to Weekly Shonen Sunday vol.19, Wakaki Tamiki's manga The World God Only Knows was announced to get an anime adaptation. The release of the next chapter was postponed until vol.21 because the author will work on the anime and the novel adaptation. Sources: Scan of WSS,...

16 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking for Mar 22 - 28

Here is the weekly manga sales ranking for March 22nd - 28th. *1, 165,371 *,165,371 Billy Bat vol.3 *2, *93,681 *,356,787 Fairy Tail vol.20 *3, *83,771 *,*83,771 Piano no Mori vol.17 *4, *74,695 *,*74,695 Working!! vol.7 *5, *69,029 *,183,454 Major vol.75 *6, *64,540 *,*64,540 So...

16 years ago

Second Season of Baka to Test to Shokanju Announced [Update Jan 22]

According to the official website, the second season of Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu was announced. More details will be revealed later. Source: Baka Test official website The novel author Inoue Kenji posted an April Fool's joke "Baka to Test to Shokanju in Hollywood" in his offici...

16 years ago

TV Ad of Chewing Gum Featuring Suzumiya Haruhi

According to Oricon new, Suzumiya Haruhi will be featured in a TV commercial clip of Lotte's new chewing gum "ACUO". The characters of Haruhi anime will costar with a popular idol Ikuta Tohma. The ad will be aired from April 5th nationwidely in Japan. Screenshots of the TV ad 15...

16 years ago