Anime News

Japanese Manga Publishers Dominate Secondhand Book Retailer

Japanese top 3 manga publishers and the major printing company DNP acquired 28.9% of Bookoff Corp. stocks. The three publishers; Kodansha, Shogakukan. and Shueisha have been opposed to Bookoff because the company is the largest dealer of the secondhand books and the manga market...

17 years ago

Japan's Weekly DVD Ranking for May 4 - 10

Here is the Anime DVD sales rankings for May 4th - 10th. *1, 14,537 14,537 Clannad ~After Story~ vol.6 Limited Edition **, *9,070 69,459 (Wall-E) **, *5,271 57,741 (Wall-E 2-Disc Special Edition) **, *2,876 43,841 (Tinker Bell) *2, *2,450 13,300 Isshoni Training **, *2,222 50,338...

17 years ago

Winners of the 33rd Kodansha Manga Award

The winners of the 33rd Kodansha Manga Award are as follows: General Category Ah! My Goddess Shonen Category Q.E.D. Shomei Shuryo Fairy Tail Shoujo Category Kiyoku Yawaku Kids Category Meitantei Yume Mizu Kiyoshirou Jiken Note Special Award for the 100th anniversary of Kodansha C...

17 years ago

Korean TV Drama Tae Wang Sa Shin Gi To Be Animated

Korean live-action TV Drama "Tae Wang Sa Shin Gi "(太王四神記, English title: The Legend) was announced to get an anime adaptation. A 26-episode series will be produced by GNG Entertainment (Korean), Mix Film (Korean), and Neo Inc. (Japanese). 3 million dollars will be invested in the...

17 years ago

Oda Eiichiro Produces One Piece 10th Movie

Edited: "Oda directs the film" was misleading. He is the executive producer of the movie. According to Weekly Shounen Jump published on May 11th, the executive producer of the new movie "One Piece Film Strong World" was announced to be the manga author Oda Eiichiro. Oda is also i...

17 years ago

K-ON! Boosts the Sales of Mobile Phone and Headphones

According to the blog of a headphones shop, AKG K701 was sold out for the first time since the opening of the shop. AKG K701 is a high class headphones and priced 74,900 yen (approx. $750). Mio wore the headphone in the episode 5 of "K-ON!". Screenshot of the scene Source: E-Earp...

17 years ago

Gundam 00 Dissatisfies The Character Designer

A guide book of Gundam 00 "Mobile Suit Gundam 00 MISSION COMPLETE 2307-2312" released on May 8th. The book had interviews with the production staff. Among the positive comments of other staff, Chiba Michinori (the character designer and the episode art director) made negative rem...

17 years ago

Sengoku BASARA Pizza and Lucky Star Credit Card

Pizza Hut announced a collaboration campaign with "Sengoku BASARA". BASARA characters eating pizza Pizza box BASARA version Customers who win the lottery will get script books, DVD, figures with the autographs of the Seiyu. Other BASARA tie-up campaigns: BASARA Signtseeing Bus Se...

17 years ago

Voice Actress Popularity Ranking [Updated]

A Negima fan blogger surveyed the popularity of Japanese voice actresses by Google Trends. The popularities were quantified according to how frequently a given actress was searched on Google from January till May 2009. The scores are standardized assuming the popularity of Tomats...

17 years ago

Anime Movie of Yatterman and Fresh Precure! Announced

Yatterman 2008 was announced to get an anime movie adaptation. It will be premiered on August 22nd. The live action movie of Yatterman (official website) was a box-office success and film agencies from thirty countries offer the distribution of the movie. Sources: Yatterman Movie...

17 years ago