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Live Action Movie of Kimi ni Todoke Announced [Update Apr 2]

According to Bessatsu Margarette February issue, a live action movie of Kimi ni Todoke was announced. The detail will be given in the later issues of the magazine. Source: Scan of BetsuMa Updated on April 2nd To be premiered on September 25th. Cast Kuronuma Sawako: Tabe Mikako (o...

16 years ago

Internal Data of Katanagatari Leaked [Update Jan 7]

On January 5th, a large amount of the production material of Katanagatari was leaked to the file sharing. The data includes the character designs, the draft storyboards up to episode 8, and the scenarios up to episode 10. Leaked OP animation (Youtube) Judging from the ID of the F...

16 years ago

Manga Vagabond To End Within 2010

According to the official website, Inoue Takehiko announced that manga Vagabond will end within this year. Vagabond has been serialized since 1998 and won Japan Media Arts Award, Kodansha Manga Award, and Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Source: Inoue Takehiko on the web

16 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking for Dec 21 - 27

Here is the weekly manga sales ranking for December 21st - 27th. *1, 886,135 *,886,135 Fullmetal Alchemist vol.24 *2, 488,446 *,488,446 Hunter x Hunter vol.27 *3, 301,130 *,301,130 Ookiku Furikabutte vol.13 *4, 281,589 *,281,589 xxxHOLiC vol.16 *5, *98,347 *,211,108 Kekkaishi vol...

16 years ago

K-ON! Season 2 Confirmed [Update Jan 29]

According to the official website, the second season of K-ON! was announced. The announcement was first made at a live event held in Yokohama Arena. Source: K-ON! official website Story by rickyrock Updated on January 29th According to the official website, the second season will...

16 years ago

Japan's Weekly DVD Ranking for Dec 21 - 27

Here is the weekly DVD sales ranking for December 21st - 27th. DVD *1, 24,643 24,643 Fireball Winter Package *2, 17,280 17,280 Hetalia Axis Powers vol.6 Limited Edition **, 12,907 12,907 (Nana Mizuki Live Diamond x Fever) **, 12,626 35,164 (Bolt) *3, 11,965 11,965 The Melancholy...

16 years ago

Mizuki Shigeru's Manga Tono Monogatari To Be Animated

According to Anime!Anime!, an anime movie of Mizuki Shigeru's manga "Mizuki Shigeru no Tono Monogatari" will be premiered on April 24th, 2010 at Tono City Museum. Tono Mongatari manga official website Tono Monogatari was originally a Japanese folklorist Yanagida Kunio's classical...

16 years ago

Oshii Mamoru To Produce New Tetsujin 28 Go Movie

According to Cinema Today, Director Oshii Mamoru revealed that his next movie is Tetsujin 28-go. It's scheduled to be premiered next Spring. It's unknown whether the movie is anime or live-action. Oshii highly praised James Cameron's new movie "Avatar" and said "I won't be able t...

16 years ago

Movie of 70's Anime Minashigo Hutch Announced

According to Mainichi news, an anime movie of Konchuu Monogatari Minashigo Hutch was announced to be premiered on July 31st 2010. Hutch, the honey bee official website Minashigo Hutch was first aired in 1970 - 1971, 1974 and a remake series was aired in 1989 - 1990. The new movie...

16 years ago

Kids Manga Keshikasu-kun To Be Animated

According to CoroCoro Comic magazine January issue, Murase Noriyuki's manga "Keshikasu-kun" was announced to get an anime adaptation. Keshikasu-kun manga official website Keshikasu-kun is an anthropomorphism manga of stationery. The main character is an eraser "Keshikasu", who ai...

16 years ago