Anime News

Urasawa Naoki Designs the Characters of MAD HOUSE's New Movie Tibetan Dog

At Festival du Film d'Animation du Annecy, MAD HOUSE Studio announced a new anime movie "Tibetan Dog" based on a Chinese best seller novel. The project was briefly mentioned in the Investors Relations last year but no detail had been given. Poster of Tibetan Dog It's a joint work...

17 years ago

Popularity Ranking of Anime Characters As a Marriage Partner

Music streaming company Recochoku surveyed the popularity of anime characters as a marriage partner. The survey was conducted by online questionnaires from May 28th - June 1st. Here are the results: Female characters *1, Akiyama Mio (K-ON!) *2, Katsura Hinagiku (Hayate the Combat...

17 years ago

Preview of K-ON! Episode 12 Causes a Turmoil [Updated]

At the end of "K-ON!" episode 11 aired on June 11th, the next episode was called "The final episode 'Keion!'". Screenshot of the preview The preview caused a turmoil on the internet and a news website reported that K-ON! series was cut down to 12 episodes, even accelerated the co...

17 years ago

Aniplex's New Sales Strategy For Blu-ray Releases

Aniplex has been reluctant to release Blu-ray of their anime titles. "FLAG" was the only title released in Blu-ray last year. Blu-ray Disc Association Interviewed Aniplex staff about their sales strategy this year. Aniplex sent out questionnaires to those who purchased Fullmetal...

17 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking For Jun 1 - 7

Here is the weekly manga sales ranking top 30 for June 1st - 7th. *1, 1,171,142 1,171,142 One Piece vol.54 *2, *,532,553 *,532,553 Bleach vol.39 *3, *,300,630 *,300,630 D.Gray-man vol.18 *4, *,200,369 *,200,369 Bakuman vol.3 *5, *,133,012 *,133,012 Bastard!! vol.26 *6, *,116,801...

17 years ago

Anime Movie of Singer Kawashima Ai's Autobiography

According to Mainichi.jp, an autobiography of singer-songwriter Kawashima Ai was announced to get an anime movie adaptation. The title is "Hachigatsu no Symphony - Shibuya 2002~2003" and it will be premiered in August. Nishizawa Akio ("Furusato Japan") directs the movie. Kawashim...

17 years ago

Itagaki Shin Fired From Basquash Director

According to the official BBS of Hirata Katsuzo (the chief animator of "Basquash!"), Itagaki Shin was fired from the director of "Basquash!". The official website of the anime indicates that the new director is Sato Eiichi (the director of "Kiss Dum: Engage Planet"). Hirata said...

17 years ago

Terminator To Appear in Doraemon Special Program

According to Hollywood Channel, the new movie "Terminator 4" collaborates with "Doraemon". Cyborg T-800 will appear in the special one-hour program to be aired on June 26th. The cyborg called "Tārinēnā (meaning insufficient, a pun of terminator)" was sent from the future to assas...

17 years ago

Japan's Weekly DVD Ranking For Jun 1 - 7

Here is the Anime DVD sales rankings for June 1st - 7th. *1, 15,745 15,745 Clannad ~After Story~ vol.7 Limited Edition *2, *3,584 13,943 Rebuild of Evangelion: 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE ver1.11 *3, *2,370 13,197 The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya vol.1 *4, *2,274 *2,274 One Pie...

17 years ago

VA Mizuki Nana Wins The Top in the Weekly CD Ranking

According to Oricon, seiyu Mizuki Nana's new album CD "ULTIMATE DIAMOND" was sold 74,000 copies and ranked the first in the weekly CD sales ranking for June 1st - 7th. It's for the first time in 41 year history of Oricon ranking that a seiyu wins the top in the sales ranking. Her...

17 years ago