Anime News

VA Tange Sakura Returns to TV Anime

The cast of the new TV anime "Anyamal Tantei Kirumin Zoo" was announced on September 1st. Seiyuu Tange Sakura will play Hatori Kanon. She announced her retirement from seiyuu business in April 2000. She had occasionally worked as a seiyuu for drama CDs and games but never played...

17 years ago

Disassembly of 18 Meter Gundam Statue Begins

According to ITmedia, the disassembly of the 18 meter life-size Gundam statue was started on September 1st. 4.15 million people visited the park during the 40 50 day exhibition. The secretariat of GREEN Tokyo Gundam Project said they haven't decided where to bring the disassemble...

17 years ago

Japan's Weekly DVD Ranking For Aug 24 - 30

Here is the weekly DVD sales ranking for August 24th - 30th. "DVD" indicates simultaneous release of the Blu-ray edition *1, 21,812 *21,812 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 2 Sasanoha Rhapsody Limited Edition *2, 17,895 *17,895 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season vol.7 DVD *3, 1...

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

Companies

Kobayashi Yu's DVD Includes an Extra OVA

According to Chou A&G Radio, an original DVD of a web radio program "Kobayashi Yu no (Kari)" was announced to be released on October 2nd (). The DVD includes a four-episode OVA titled "Mince no Daibouken" featuring a mascot character of the program. Kobayashi Yu and mascot charac...

17 years ago

DVD Only Episode of Kuruneko

According to the official website, each of the DVD volumes 1 - 4 of Kuruneko will include an extra episode "Kuruneko-bin Tokubetsu-hen". They are > 7min long each and the volume 1 will be released on December 18th. Matryoshka dolls of Kuruneko will be bundled with the DVD limited...

17 years ago

Art Director of Afro Samurai Resurrection Wins Emmy Award

According to the Emmy Award official website, Ikeda Shigemi won the Juried award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for the art directions of Afro Samurai: Resurrection. Ikeda Shigemi is the president of Atelier MUSA and worked on numbers of anime such as Mobile...

17 years ago

Light Novel Ichiban Ushiro no Daimao To Be Animated

According to the cover note of the novel volume 7, Mizuki Shoutarou's light novel "Ichiban Ushiro no Daimao" was announced to get an anime adaptation. Its manga adaptation has been published since 2008. Source: Scan of the cover official website

17 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking For Aug 17 - 23 [Completed]

Here is the weekly manga sales ranking for August 17th - 23rd. *1, 383,086 *,383,086 Detective Conan vol.65 *2, 222,823 1,071,890 Fullmetal Alchemist vol.23 *3, 195,975 *,937,639 Nodame Cantabile vol.22 *4, 172,154 *,172,154 Ace of Diamond vol.17 *5, 119,534 *,119,534 Azumanga Da...

17 years ago

Manga To Love-Ru Ends Serialization on August 31

According to Weekly Shounen Jump August 31st issue, manga To-LOVE-Ru has ended. Shueisha stated that the decision was made by the authors. I couldn't find the source of the info Source: Scan of WSJ Story by [profile=radiantfire]radiantfire[/profile]

17 years ago