Anime News

Japan's Weekly Manga Rankings

The top ten manga for the week of January 9th, 2008 are as follows: 1. To-LOVE-Ru, Volume 7 2. Koukou Debut, Volume 10 3. Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar, Volume 14 4. Mx0, Volume 7 5. Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 18 6. Ookiku Furikabutte, Volume 9 7. Shin Say Hello to Black Jack, Volume 3 8...

18 years ago

Kamen Rider Coming To USA

Another tokusatsu hero is coming to the US. Kamen Rider Dragon Knight will premier this year, and an upcoming movie is scheduled to be in theater in 2009. The Kamen Rider franchise was created by renowned manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. The first live-action television series da...

18 years ago

Viz Media cancels release of Mar

Viz Media has confirmed its cancellation of release plans for all future domestic DVDs of the Mar anime series. They still have domestic distribution rights to the series and are re-evaluating the series' domestic availability methods. According to their PR firm, "As in the case...

18 years ago

Zettai Karen Children Gets Animated

The manga (began as a one-shot, now has 11 volumes) Zettai Karen Children, created by Takashi Shiina, will be animated for the Spring season. The announcement will be made in the Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine, which is on stands January 9th. For more information: ANN.

18 years ago

Sci-Fi Channel Increases Anime

The American channel, Sci-Fi, will be adding anime to its Tuesday lineup starting February 5th. The channel already airs anime on Monday nights with a two hour block called "Ani-Monday" and will continue to do so. The Tuesday schedule will also start at 11:00pm (GMT-6) just as th...

18 years ago

Kirarin Revolution Gets Third Year

The website for the manga magazine Ciao shōjo announced that the series Kirarin Revolution will indeed start its third year in spring. It first came out in April of 2006. Kirarin Revolution and the series Precure (which annoucned a fifth season back in November) are two of longes...

18 years ago

Blood+ soon to be on DVD

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment finally announced the first North American DVD release of Production I.G's Blood+ anime. The $119.95 collector's set will contain the first 25 episodes of the series, and the first $24.96 single DVD will contain the first five episodes. Both are t...

18 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Rankings

The top ten manga for the week of December 27th, 2007 are as follows: 1. Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 18 2. Ookiku Furikabutte , Volume 9 3. Kuro Shitsuji, Volume 3 4. Ahiru no Sora, Volume 18 5. Cross Game, Volume 10 6. Hajime no Ippo, Volume 82 7. Otomen, Volume 4 8. Konjiki no...

18 years ago

Shokotan on Kōhaku

Idol Shoko Nakagawa has been chosen to appear on Japan's annual music show on the New Year's Eve, Kōhaku Uta Gassen, or simply Kōhaku. She will be performing the opening theme of Tengen-Toppa Gurren Lagann, Sorairo Days. source: NHK

18 years ago

Moyashimon Broke Rating Record

Last episode of Moyashimon broke the rating record of Fuji TV's late night programming block noitaminA with a 5.2%. The average rating of Moyashimon is also the highest noitaminA has seen, a 4.6%. noitaminA hosted Honey and Clover, Paradise Kiss, Jyu Oh Sei, and Nodame Cantabile...

18 years ago