Anime News

Manga Ooku Wins Tiptree Award 2009

The James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council announced the winners of the 2009 award. Yoshinaga Fumi's manga Ooku was selected along with Greer Gilman's Cloud and Ashes. The members of the jury were not much familiar with manga and Japanese culture but they were deeply impressed...

16 years ago

Nujabes, the Producer of Samurai Champloo Themes, Passes Away

According to HydeOut Productions, nujabes, the producer of Samurai Champloo themes and sound tracks, was killed in a traffic accident on February 26th. He was 36 years old. Shing02's eulogy for nujabes (English) Source: Hydeout Productions official blog

16 years ago

Life Event

Light Novel MM! To Be Animated

According to the Media Factory PR booklet, Matsuno Akinari's novel MM! was announced to get a TV anime adaptation. Its manga adaptation has been serialized in Monthly Comic Alive since 2008. Source: Scan of MF Sononamo J vol.93

16 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking for Mar 8 - 14

Here is the weekly manga sales ranking for March 8th - 14th. *1, 313,861 2,004,793 One Piece vol.57 *2, 187,592 *,924,059 Naruto vol.50 *3, 122,424 *,122,424 Angel Heart vol.32 *4, 111,140 *,420,698 Katekyo Hitman Reborn! vol.28 *5, *92,555 *,*92,555 Chihayafuru vol.8 *6, *78,635...

16 years ago

Biggest Drop of Manga Sales In Japan

According to The Research Institute for Publications (RIP), the yearly sales of manga (magazines and comic books) in 2009 was 418.7 billion yen and made a year-on-year decrease of 6.6%, which is the largest drop since the onset of RIP records. Chart: Manga Sales in Japan 1991 - 2...

16 years ago

Second Season of Sora no Otoshimono Announced

According to the cover note of manga, the second season of Sora no Otoshimono was announced. 1.5 million copies of Sora Oto manga has been sold. A live event "Sora no Otoshimono Seishun Hit Paradise" will be held on March 20th. Source: Scan of the cover note

16 years ago

Japan's Weekly DVD Ranking for Mar 8 - 14

Here is the weekly DVD sales ranking for March 8th - 14th. DVD *1, 29,724 29,724 Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn DVD *2, 17,947 73,322 Summer Wars DVD *3, *4,861 12,872 Hetalia Axis Powers vol.7 Limited Edition *4, *3,901 *3,901 Seitokai no Ichizon vol.4 Limited Edition *5, *2,660 20,...

16 years ago

DVD Only Episodes of Durarara!! Announced [Update Mar 18]

According to the official website, the DVD volume 7 of Durarara!! will include an extra episode. It will be released on August 25th. Source: Durarara official website Updated on March 18th According to the official website, there are more than one DVD only episodes. Source: Durar...

16 years ago

Mystery Light Novel GOSICK To Be Animated [Update Jul 22]

According to web Kadokawa, an anime project of Sakuraba Kazuki's novel Gosick was announced to get underway. A manga adaptation has been serialized in Monthly Dragon Age. Sakuraba won one of the most authoritative literary award Naoki Prize in 2008. Source: web Kadokawa Updated o...

16 years ago

Mangaka Object to Tokyo Ordinance Regulating Anime & Manga Characters [Update Mar 17]

According to Sankei news, Chiba Tetsuya and Satonaka Machiko held a press conference to declare opposition to a local ordinance regulating "fictitious juveniles". Numbers of famous mangaka made objection to the regulation that it will severely violate the freedom of expression. T...

16 years ago