Anime News

Bandai USA Postpones Three Titles

According to the press release from Bandai Visual USA, they postpone the release of three new titles: Shigofumi, true tears, and sola. They promised to provide the release date as soon as possible. All the other titles are not affected. Tatsunori Konno the president of Bandai Vis...

18 years ago

Gonzo Works to be Streamed Simultaneously with Airing

Japanese Media company, GDH, has announced that Youtube, Crunchyroll, and BOST online video services will be streaming new titles from animation studio Gonzo worldwide on the same day as they are released in Japan. The video streams will be in Japanese with English subtitles and...

18 years ago

Japan Appoints Cartoon Ambassador: Doraemon

The Japanese government has officially created a position to promote anime and Japanese culture, and as of yesterday appointed its first official: Doraemon. With the appointment, Japanese officials hope to spread Japanese ideals and diplomacy and teach about the Japanese lifestyl...

18 years ago

Japan's Weekly DVD Rankings

The top ten anime DVDs in Japan for the week of March 12th - March 18th, 2008 are as follows: 1. Ex Machina: Appleseed Saga (Standard Edition) 2. Minami-ke #3 (Limited Edition) 3. The World of GOLDEN EGGS Vol. 01 4. The World of GOLDEN EGGS Vol. 02 5. Ex Machina: Appleseed Saga (...

18 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Rankings

The top ten manga in Japan for the week of March 19th, 2008 are as follows: 1. Nodame Cantabile, Volume 20 2. One Piece, Volume 49 3. Aria, Volume 12 4. Hunter x Hunter, Volume 25 5. D.Gray-man, Volume 14 6. Fist of the Blue Sky, Volume 18 7. The Prince of Tennis, Volume 41 8. To...

18 years ago

New Slayers Anime To Be Titled Slayers Revolution

The recently released issue of Dragon Magazine has announced the official title of upcoming 4th series of the TV series Slayers. Slayers Revolution which is, to my knowledge, still without a release date was announced in the March 19th issue. It was not confirmed, but hinted at t...

18 years ago

President of Kadokawa opposes removing anime from Youtube

According to Tech-On! magazine, Fukuda Tadashi the president of Kadokawa Digix (the publisher of "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", "Lucky ☆ Star" etc.) said "It is quite sad to see that anime vids are deleted due to the copyright infringement. We can use Youtube and other vide...

18 years ago

Japan's Weekly DVD Rankings

The top ten anime DVDs in Japan for the week of March 5th - March 11th 2008 are as follows: 1. Dragon Ball GT #3 2. Dragon Ball GT #4 3. Clannad Movie (Special Edition) 4. Toward the Terra… #8 5. The World of GOLDEN EGGS Vol. 01 6. D.Gray-man 2nd stage #01 7. The World of GOLDEN...

18 years ago

Hayate Fan Buys 398 Copies of Shounen Sunday

A fan of the manga and anime series, Hayate no Gotoku, bought 398 copies of the magazine Shounen Sunday. The issue came with a free card from the series' trading card game of the character Sakuya. The number 398 is apparently a play on the character's name, the reason why the fan...

18 years ago

Bus Gamer promo video online

Animate TV website is streaming a very short promo video for Bus Gamer, the television anime adaptation of Kazuya Minekura's Bus Gamer action suspense manga. The 3 episode series premieres in Japan tomorrow. Bus gamer is story of three young players in a reality competition in wh...

18 years ago