Anime News

Man arrested for stealing 101 manga volumes

A 23 year old Japanese man was arrested for stealing 101 volumes from a manga store by putting up to 50 volumes in a plastic bag and leaving them in the parking lot while he went to go get more. He had stolen around 60,000 yen ($500 USD), he claims he was in debt that he was goin...

18 years ago

Tekkon Kinkreet submitted to the Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences announced 11-08-07 that the have come up with twelve entries that have been submitted for consideration. Three of those entries will then go on and have the chance to win the Animated Feature Film category for the 80th Academy Awar...

19 years ago

Successful Jump Square Debut

Jump Square, the shounen manga that replaced Monthly Shounen Jump, made its debut in Japan on November 2nd. The magazine has almost completely sold out of its original 500,000 released copies. The publishing company, Shueisha, has gone ahead with printing 100,000 additional copie...

19 years ago

Persona 3 gets an anime adaptation

The video game Persona 3 for the PS2 that was released in Japan on July 13, 2006 and subsequently released in North America on August 14, 2007 is getting an anime adaptation that will air in January 2008. Aniplex's A-1 Pictures is adapting the Persona 3 PlayStation 2 role-playing...

19 years ago

Honey and Clover Manga Gets TV Drama Adaptation

Chica Umino's Honey & Clover will be adapted into a live-action drama. 15-year-old Riko Narumi will play Hagumi and 23-year-old Tōma Ikuta will play as Takemoto Source: ANN

19 years ago

The Wallflower trailer available at ADV

ADV is now streaming the over-the-top trailer for The Wallflower, or as most of us know it, Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge. You can watch the beauty repulsed horror fanatic and the beauties that share a mansion with her when the first DVD volume for the anime ships on December 18....

19 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Rankings

The ranks for the top ten manga in Japan for the week of October 31st have been released and are as follows: 1st: Detective Conan, Volume 59 2nd: Black Lagoon, Volume 7 3rd: xxxHOLiC, Volume 12 4th: Kekkaishi, Volume 18 5th: Hayate the Combat Butler, Volume 13 6th: Skip Beat!, Vo...

19 years ago

Sci-Fi Channel will air new anime before the holidays

The Sci Fi Channel will postpone Virus Buster Serge and Noein during its AniMonday line-up to run Karas the Revelation, the last three episodes of Keiichi Sato's six-episode action horror series on November 5. Street Fighter Alpha: Generations will air on November 19. Black Jack...

19 years ago

McDonald's Speeds Up Sgt. Frog Happy Meal Release

Sunrise (the anime company) notified everyone on Monday that McDonald's Japan will release its Sgt. Frog Happy Meal campaign on October 30th - two days before its original release. The earlier date is due to many inquiries on when the campaign was to start. There are a wide selec...

19 years ago

My house burnt down...... but at least I have some manga!

As most of you may know, California has been on fire for the past while, but since most of the anime/manga companies are located in Southern California, they have decided to donate manga to victims of the horrible fires. ANN said:The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animatio...

19 years ago