Anime News

Anime Director Toriumi Hisayuki Passes Away

Yomiuri Online reported that anime director Toriumi Hisayuki passed away on January 23rd. He was 67 years old. Toriumi entered Tatsunoko Productions in 1966 and took part in the direction of "Speed Racer". He was selected as the general director of "Gatchaman" in 1972. Oshii Mamo...

17 years ago

Special TV Program Lupin III vs. Detective Conan Announced [Updated on Feb 24]

According to Weekly Shounen Sunday, an one-shot TV program featuring "Lupin III" and "Detective Conan" was announced. It's an original story, and Lupin III fights with Conan over a treasure. The key illustration of the special program A scan of the full page says the program will...

17 years ago

Online Anime Suzumiya Haruhi-chan To Start on Feb 13

According to the official website, episode 1 of "Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yuuutsu" and "Nyoro-n Churuya-san" will be aired on Youtube Kadokawa Channel on Feb 13th at 10pm JST (5am PST). They will upload a new episode once a week, but the dates and time of the updates may be irregu...

17 years ago

New Anime Sora no Otoshimono Confirmed

According to Monthly Shounen Ace, Minazuki Suu's manga "Sora no Otoshimono" was announced to get an anime adaptation. Sora no Otoshimono has been published in Mothly Shounen Ace since May 2007 and there are four Tankobon published to date. The type and schedule of airing have not...

17 years ago

Suzumiya Haruhi and Slayers Turn Into Kids' Novels

Kadokawa announced in the press release that they will launch a new publishing label "Kadokawa Tsubasa Bunko" on March 3rd. The new label targets at children between 9 - 13 years old. They re-edit the existing light novels into children's literature. The major titles to be releas...

17 years ago

A Special Episode of Manga GetBackers To Be Published

According to Monthly Magazine SPECIAL, an extra special episode of "GetBackers" will be published in Magazine SPECIAL Issue No.3 on February 20th. This is a part of a special project to cerebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Weekly Shounen Magazine. "GetBackers" had been published...

17 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking For Jan 12 - 18

Here is the weekly manga sales ranking top 30 for Jan 12th - 18th. Rank/ This week's sales/ Total sales/ Title *1, 170,171 *,170,171 Hayate The Combat Butler vol.18 *2, 121,781 *,121,781 Kekkaishi vol.23 *3, *80,318 *,*80,318 Hotaru no Hikari vol.13 *4, *50,552 *,*50,552 The Worl...

17 years ago

New Anime Element Hunter Announced

A new TV anime "Element Hunter" was announced to be aired from July 2009. The anime is a collaboration of the Japanese national TV channel NHK and a Korean anime production studio Heui-Won Entertainment. Staff Original Concept: Ito Kazunori Director: Okumura Yoshiaki ("Antique Ba...

17 years ago

Light Novel Seiken no Blacksmith To Be Animated

A new anime based on a light novel "Seiken no Blacksmith -The Sacred Blacksmith-" was announced in the cover note of the novel. The novel also gets a manga adaptation and it will start publication in Comic Alive on March 27th. The author of the art is Yamada Koutarou. Synopsis: O...

17 years ago

Personal Info of More Than 10,000 Doujin Creators Leaked

A list of names of the participants of a doujin manga market "Sunshine Creation (SC)" leaked by a computer virus and was spread by a P2P file sharing software "Winny". The list has the personal information (street addresses, phone numbers, real names, ages etc.) of more than 10,0...

17 years ago