Anime News

The Animated Film Baton To Be Produced in USA and Japan

Ryuhei Kitamura, known for directing Godzilla: Final Wars, will direct Wild Boar Media's 50-minutes long animated feature "Baton." The film is being conceptualized, voice acted, and written in Japan, but the animation will be done by the American studio Titmouse. The movie is com...

17 years ago

Toonami Jetstream Ends

An anime video streaming website "Toonami Jetstream" ended its service on January 29th. The website was founded by Cartoon Network (CN) and VIZ Media in 2006. The streaming of "Naruto" will be transferred to CN video. "MAR" and "Blue Dragon" will be transferred to VIZ Media websi...

17 years ago

Hirano Kouta's New Manga Announced

Hirano Kouta (the author of "Hellsing") was announced to start a new manga series from April 30th. The title hasn't been given yet, but a key illustration was shown in Yong King OURS magazine March issue. Source: Scan of Young King OURS The last volume of "Hellsing" will be relea...

17 years ago

Hayao Miyazaki Dislikes the Digital Animation

Hayao Miyazaki revealed to Hong Kong’s Sunday Morning Post that he hasn’t seen any of the major digitally animated films in the last two decades. In his opinion, young people today have surrounded themselves with the virtual possessions and are missing out in life in general. How...

17 years ago

New Kids Anime Marie And Gali Announced

Toei Animation announced a new anime "Marie & Gali". It's a 5 min short anime and will be aired from March 31st. Synopsis: Marika moves to a town and finds that all the neighbors are famous scientists. Galileo Galilei is living next door, Isaac Newton is working in a grocery stor...

17 years ago

ALA Chooses Manga REAL As Top 10 Great Graphic Novels For Teens 2009

American Library Association (ALA) announced this year's Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens. Three Japanese manga were chosen: Sand Chronicles vol.1 - 3 REAL vol.1 & 2 Uzumaki vol.1 All of the three titles are published by VIZ Media. The following manga were chosen as Great G...

17 years ago

Interviews with Anime Producers For New Titles In 2009

Dengeki G's Magazine March issue reported interviews with the P.R. managers of the anime producers. Geneon Entertainment A new series of a very popular anime will be aired in the autumn. Pony Canyon Three or four new anime (including a new season of a great hit title) will be air...

17 years ago

Seiyuu Car Navigation Device

MAPLUS released a portable navigation device "iriver CaroNavi M3". You can install voice data of anime characters played by popular voice actors and actresses. List of voices Furuya Tohru (Amuro's voice) Wakamoto Norio (Cell's voice) Ohtsuka Akio (Batou's voice) Ikeda Shuuichi (C...

17 years ago

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Anime In Decline

ITmedia reported an interview with Itwata Keisuke, the managing director of AT-X TV channel. He said Japanese Animation is declining after it reached the peak in 2006 and there is little hope for the growth of the anime market. Here is the chart of the sales of the anime industry...

17 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking For Jan 19 - 25

Here is the weekly manga sales ranking top 30 for Jan 19th - 25th. Rank/ Two-week total sales/ Total sales/ Title *1, 116,979 287,150 Hayate The Combat Butler vol.18 *2, 115,237 115,237 VBRose vol.13 *3, 108,330 108,330 Pride vol.10 *4, 105,587 105,587 Liar Game vol.8 *5, 101,552...

17 years ago