Anime News

Japan's New Ambassadors Inspired By Anime and Manga

Last year The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan chose Doraemon as an ambassador, this year it's three young women who represent the Kawaii culture. The Anime and Manga inspired couture the three will be sporting (all of which come from their own personal style) is that of a un...

17 years ago

MADHOUSE Admits Unexpected Political Slogan in RideBack

According to Korean newspapers, Madhouse Studios admitted that a political slogan regarding the president of South Korea was unexpectedly inserted in the episode 9 of "RideBack". Madhouse refused to disclose the nationality of the animator who put the slogan and its intention. Th...

17 years ago

Official BBS of Fresh Precure! Closed Due to Arguments Between Adult Fans

The official BBS of "Fresh Precure!" was temporarily closed this month. Toei Animation explained that some users have posted unpleasant comments, which were against the rule of the BBS. According to Tech Insight, the users, supposedly grown-ups, started communicating with each ot...

17 years ago

Hidamari Sketch x365 DVD Special Episode

The DVD volume 7 of "Hidamari Sketch x 365" includes an unaired episode in addition to episode 13. The title is "February 24th Polaroidon" and it was shown at TBS Anime Festa last August. The DVD will be released on March 25th. Source: Amazon Japan Source: Qlep I apologize for th...

17 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking For Mar 2 - 8 [Updated]

Oricon took a break again, so the sales numbers are available only for the top 5. Here is the weekly manga sales ranking top 30 for March 2nd - 8th. *1, 1,194,145 1,194,145 One Piece vol.53 *2, *,228,056 *,228,056 Bakuman vol.2 *3, *,186,491 *,420,287 Pluto vol.7 *4, *,161,988 *,...

17 years ago

Bandai To Build an 18 Meter Gundam Statue [Updated]

Bandai announced that they will build an 18 meter high 1/1 scale statue of Mobile Suit Gundam (RX-78-2) and put it on public view in July in Tokyo. The statue is made of steel frames and FRP (Fiber Reinforced Plastics), and has a mobile head part, 50 luminous parts, and 14 mist-s...

17 years ago

Character Song CD of Yoko Has an Anime PV

According to the official website, an animation PV will be bundled with a new character song of Yoko Littner ("Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann") titled "S.t.a.r.S". It will be released on May 27th. The BOX set "Kirameki★Yoko BOX -PIECES of SWEET STARS-" also has 132 pages of fanbook i...

17 years ago

Japan's Weekly Anime DVD Rankings For Feb 23 - Mar 8

Here is the Anime DVD sales rankings for these two weeks. February 23rd - March 1st Rank/ This week's sales/ Total sales/ Title *1, 23,402 23,402 The Sky Crawlers *without BD *2, 12,463 12,463 Kuroshitsuji vol.2 Limited Edition *3, 12,146 12,146 Gintama Season 3 vol.7 *4, 11,980...

17 years ago

Joint Manga of Adachi Mitsuru and Takahashi Rumiko

A collaboration of Adachi Mitsuru and Takahashi Rumiko will be published in Weekly Shounen Sunday vol.16 to be released on March 18th. It's a 30 page one-shot manga. Adashi-sensei and Takahashi-sensei take turns writing their histories using their popular characters. Source: Nata...

17 years ago

Manga GUNNM Involved In a Murder Case In Taiwan

A 35 year old man was arrested for murder on March 9th in Taipei, Taiwan. He deposed that he committed the crime by referring to a Japanese manga which he read long time ago. Police explained to the press that he had lost his job and been in despair. He remembered a manga and tho...

17 years ago