Anime News

Japan's Weekly Anime DVD Rankings

The top ten anime DVDs for the week of January 23rd, 2008 to January 29th, 2008 are as follows: 1. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 #1 2. Lucky Star #8 Limited First Edition 3. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS #7 4. Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann #7 5. Ookiku Furikabutte #8 (Limited Product...

18 years ago

Shigusawa Keeichi's Alison and Lillia announced to air 4/3/2008

Shigusawa Keiichi's "Alison and Lillia" has been announced to air weekly on NHK BS2, 4/3 (Thurs) starting 11:32 PM. The series will run for 26 episodes. The series will be a compilation of the two manga "Alison" and "Lillia and Treize," both original works by Shigusawa Keiichi (K...

18 years ago

ISP Ordered to Reveal Identities of BitTorrent Anime Sharers

The High Court in Singapore has ordered an ISP (PacNet) to hand over the personal details of it's customers who used BitTorrent to share Japanese anime titles. Titles such as Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Mobile Suit Gundam in 2000, which where distributed by the anti-p2p comp...

18 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Rankings

The top ten manga for the week of January 30th, 2008 are as follows: 1. Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Volume 22 2. Mahou Sensei Negima!, Volume 21 3. Jyuushin Enbu - Hero Tales, Volume 2 4. Detective Conan, Volume 60 5. Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu, Volume 10 6. Fairy Tale,...

18 years ago

Dragon Ball Cast Update

A new role has been cast for the live-action movie version of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball. Randal Duk Kim, best known for his role as the "Key-maker" in the second installment of The Matrix series, will play the role of Gohan (the one who raised Goku, not Goku's son). The rest o...

18 years ago

Shigofumi and True Tears Licensed

Shigofumi and True Tears, anime shows that started airing in Japan just this month, have already been licensed by Bandai Visual USA. Bandai Visual USA said the North American DVD releases will occur only 2 months after their respective Japanese DVD release. According to their sta...

18 years ago

Code Geass R2 Promo

The official site for Code Geass R2 has posted a 68-second promo video on its website which contains scenes and spoilers from the first season of Code Geass. The second season premieres in Japan in April, as well as the first season premiering on Adult Swim in April. For more inf...

18 years ago

Tora Annual Top 200

Toranoana, a Japanese otaku and doujin shop, has released its 2007 Tora Annual Books Ranking list (the entire list contains 200 books). The top twenty are as follows: 1. DDD 2. Hayate the Combat Butler 3. Lucky ☆ Star 4. Shingetsutan Tsukihime 5. Haruhi Suzumiya 6. Doujin Works 7...

18 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Rankings

The top ten manga for the week of January 23rd, 2008 are as follows: 1. Detective Conan, Volume 60 2. Hayate the Combat Butler, Volume 14 3. Mahou Sensei Negima!, Volume 21 4. Kekkaishi, Volume 19 5. Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Volume 22 6. Fairy Tail, Volume 8 7. Shinshi Doume...

18 years ago

Shotaro Ishinomori Enters Guinness Book

Shotaro Ishinomari has been entered into the Guiness Book of World Records. His record is having published the most amount of books in a lifetime. Source: ComiPress

18 years ago