Anime News

Four-Panel Manga Higepiyo To Be Animated

According to the official website of Monthly Chorus magazine, Itou Risa's four-panel comedy manga "Higepiyo" was announced to get an anime adaptation. The details will be given in the April issue to be released next month. Higepiyo is a little chick with a mustache, who is seekin...

17 years ago

Sponsors Abuse Anime Studios, Says New JFTC Report

News has been released last week from Japan's Fair Trade Commission. They released a report that detailed findings of potentially illegal contract manipulation imposed on the Japanese Anime Production Studios, by their own sponsors. As many as 114 anime production studios respond...

17 years ago

Japan's Monthly Anime DVD Sales Ranking For January

Here is the Anime DVD sales ranking for Dec 22 - Jan 25. *1, 88,247 Biohazard: Degeneration * two-week total *2, 18,122 Code Geass - Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 vol.6 *without BD *3, 16,679 Clannad ~After Story~ vol.2 Limited Edition *4, 13,657 Macross Frontier vol.6 *without BD *5, 1...

17 years ago

Moribito Honored with Batchelder Award

This morning, at the midwinter conference of the American Library Association in Denver, Nahoko Uehashi’s Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, the first novel in her popular series of fantasy novels, won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for outstanding translated work. The winning no...

17 years ago

Afro Samurai: Resurrection American Premiere

"Afro Samurai: Resurrection" Premiered On Spike TV Sunday, January 25 2009 From 10:00 PM – Midnight, ET/PT Samuel L. Jackson returns as "Afro" along with Special Guests: Mark Hamill and Lucy Liu. The soundtrack is composed by RZA. Afro Samurai Resurrection, is produced by Gonzo S...

17 years ago

Crunchyroll's Trouble With Fan Translated Material

Crunchyroll, a media distribution site, has undergone some new changes lately. Most notably it has made a transition from a platform of user-uploaded content to a platform for professionally produced content. In short, they wished to get direct rights to the content released on t...

17 years ago

Special Epilogue SLAM DUNK 10 DAYS AFTER To Be Published [Updated]

Inoue Takehiko announced in his official blog that an extra epilogue of "Slam Dunk" will be published this year. The epilogue is called "SLAM DUNK 10 DAYS AFTER" and about an event happened ten days after the final episode of the manga series. The epilogue was originally drawn by...

17 years ago

ANIMAX Asia To Air Original Anime LaMB

ANIMAX Asia, the Singaporean branch of a Japanese satellite TV channel ANIMAX, announced that they will air their original anime "LaMB" in March in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Vietnam. Airing in Japan was not announced. LaM...

17 years ago

Shugo Chara! Musical Stage Show Announced [Updated]

Nakayoshi magazine March issue announced a musical show of "Shugo Chara!". PEACH-PIT had been sick in the hospital and the publications of "Shugo Chara!", "Zombie-Loan", and "Rozen Maiden Tale" were canceled last month. They recovered now and the publications of the three will re...

17 years ago

Louvre Museum Exhibits The Arts of Manga JoJo's Author

Louvre Museum in France has been holding an exhibition "Cartoons - The Louvre invites comic-strip art" and displaying original drawings of comic artists based on the artistic works and the exhibition rooms of the museum. Araki Hirohiko ("JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" ) was chosen as...

17 years ago