Anime News

Official Website of Ristorante Paradiso Hacked

The official website of "Ristorante Paradiso" was hacked by someone and a Trojan script infected the source. If you connect to the website, the browser will read an unrelated adult website. It's been more than six hours since the infection was reported but the virus hasn't been r...

17 years ago

Monthly Anime DVD Sales Ranking For February [Repost]

Here is the Anime DVD sales ranking for Jan 26 - Feb 22. *1, 54,145 Kara no Kyoukai 5: Mujun Rasen Limited Edition *2, 23,813 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season vol.1 *without BD *3, 16,968 Code Geass - Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 vol.7 *without BD *4, 16,300 Clannad ~After Story~ vo...

17 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking For Feb 23 - Mar 1 [Repost]

Here is the weekly manga sales ranking top 30 for February 23rd - March 1st. *1, 233,769 233,769 Pluto vol.7 *2, 104,530 104,530 Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu vol.5 *3, 103,811 103,811 Sekirei vol.8 *4, *90,904 *90,905 Vinland Saga vol.7 *5, *90,690 355,083 xxxHOLiC vol.14 *6, *86,223...

17 years ago

Live-Action TV Drama of Medical Manga Godhand Teru Announced

Yamamoto Kazuki's medical manga "Godhand Teru" was announced to get a TV drama adaptation. It will be aired from April 11th. Cast Mahigashi Teru: Hiraoka Yuuta (Official website) Sakura Ayano: Murakawa Eri (Official website) Shinomiya Kozue: Mizukawa Asami (Official website) "God...

17 years ago

Special One-Shot Episode of Manga BOYS BE... Announced

According to Monthly Magazine Special issue no.3, a special one-shot episode of manga "BOYS BE ..." will be published on March 19th in the next issue. It is the second project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Weekly Shounen Magazine. "BOYS BE..." had been published in Weekly...

17 years ago

Winners of the 2009 Tokyo Anime Awards Announced

The winners of the Tokyo Anime Award have been announced for 2009. Animation of the Year Gake no Ue no Ponyo Best TV Animation Macross Frontier & Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 Best OVA Detroit Metal City Best Foreign Movie Kung-fu Panda Best Japanese Movie Gake no Ue no Pony...

17 years ago

Gintama Contiunes and Moves on to the Fourth Season

According to CharaBee booklet and the episode 145, "Gintama" will continue and the fourth season will start from April. They had announced in episode 125 that the story went into the "final chapter" and Director Fujita Yoichi hinted the end of the anime by March in the interview....

17 years ago

Sequel of Dragon Ball Live Action Movie Is Ready

Justin Chatwin, the main actor of the live action movie "Dragonball Evolution", told British magazine SciFi Now that they've already prepared the script of the sequel of the movie. He was signed on the possible sequel. Source: SciFi Now

17 years ago

Funimation Acquires Eight New Titles [Updated on Feb 20th]

Today Funimation acquired the license from Media Net for "Seto no Hanayome" or as Funimation has announced "My Bride is a mermaid". Funimation plans to release the series in two Dvd box sets, beginning later this year. Nothing has been announced concerning the two episodes of "Se...

17 years ago

GDH Denies The News of Firing Creators and Runs Short of Funds

GDH officially denied the report of Nikkei Newspaper about the reduction of GONZO's creators. According to Nikkei Quick News, Iwakaze Capital refused to accept 900 million yen of GDH's preferred stocks. GDH was announced to receive 1.9 billion yen from Iwakaze though the stock tr...

17 years ago