Anime News

Japan's Weekly DVD Ranking For Jul 6 - 12

Here is the anime DVD sales ranking for July 6th - 12th. *1, 138,262 640,490 Gake no Ue no Ponyo Normal Edition *2, **4,026 **4,026 Minami-ke Okaeri vol.4 Limited Edition *3, **2,941 928,113 My Neighbor Totoro *4, **2,569 *26,600 Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone *5, ***,*** *...

17 years ago

July 2009's Newtype Ranking Popularity series and characters

Results: Best Series: 1. K-On! 2. Neon Genesis Evangelion 3. Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi 4. Fullmetal Alchemist 5. Gundam 00 6. Code Geass 7. Sengoku BASARA 8. Macross Frontier 9. Hayate no Gotoku 10. Gintama Best Male Characters: 1. Kyon (Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi) 2. Lelo...

17 years ago

Yearly Rankings

Charity Auction of Souvenir Photo Rights at the Shoulder Height of Gundam 1/1 Scale Statue

Green Tokyo Gundam Project committee has been carrying out a charity auction of the participating rights of Tokyo Olympic Invitation Ceremony to be held on August 1st. They will bring the successful bidder to the shoulder height of Gundam 1/1 scale statue by a crane truck and a p...

17 years ago

New Short CGI Anime of Gundam ZZ

Bandai Visual announced the release of Blu-ray box sets of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ. A two-episode short film titled "GUNDAM FRAG." will be bundled as extra. Fragmentary movies of the battles in Universal Century are collected and depicted with CGI. Release dates: Box set vol.1: Sep...

17 years ago

Aniplex Launches a New Project So Ra No Wo To [Update]

Aniplex launches an original project "So・Ra・No・Wo・To". Sorawoto official website The original character designer is Kishida Meru (PS3 game "Atelier Rorona"). Judging from the names of the copyright holders "Paradores・ Aniplex/ 1121st Platoon", it's about a Spanish military band....

17 years ago

Production Studio of Saki Changed

According to the ED credit of episode 15, the production studio of "Saki" changed from GONZO to Picture Magic. GONZO was credited as an assistant studio, which generally means a subcontractor. Source: Screenshot of of the credit

17 years ago

OVA of Ecchi Manga Aki-Sora Announced

According to the notice to bookshops, Itosugi Masahiro's manga "Aki-Sora" was announced to get an OVA adaptation. It will be bundled with the manga volume 3 Limited Edition to be released on December 18th. Staff Director: Takahashi Takeo ("Spice and Wolf") Character Design: Kurod...

17 years ago

Lantis Launches an Original Anime Project Goulart Knights

Anime music label Lantis launched an original anime project "Goulart Knights". A one-shot manga was published in Animedia August issue and a drama CD will be available at C76. Staff Original story: Miyajima Takumi (scenario writer of game "Tales of Symphonia", "Tales of the Abyss...

17 years ago

NY Times Manga Best Seller List for the Week Ending July 4, 2009 (Released July 10, 2009)

Graphic Books Best Seller List (Manga) for the Week Ending 4 July 2009 Since vol.45 of Naruto got released the Naruto titles all got an upswing during this week, taking in positions. Bleach which held the 1st position in the previously presented list dropped to 5th. In the lower...

17 years ago

Pokemon Movie Establishes a Guinness World Record of Advance Sale

Guinness World Records certificated that "Pokemon Diamond & Pearl the Movie: Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Sheimi" set a world record of the advance sales of an anime movie. 2,384,198 in-advance tickets of the movie were sold last year. Source: Iza news

17 years ago