Anime News

Best Otaku Collection Contest

Square Enix and Seven Seas Entertainment are holding a contest to find the best otaku collections. The contest is called "Are You an Otaku?" and it is being used to promote Jiro Suzuki's I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara manga. In order to enter, people are to email photos of their...

19 years ago

Death Notes Found Near Body Parts

A French newspaper in Belgium reports of messages related to Death Note found near body parts in the forest area of a park (Duden Park - Belgium). Both of the pieces of paper have the identical phrase of: "Watashi wa Kira dess" a blatant misspelling of "Watashi wa Kira desu" whic...

19 years ago

Fifth Season of Digimon To Premiere

The fifth season of Digimon: Data Squad premieres tonight (October 1st) at 8:30pm (EST GMT -5) on the Toon Disney channel during Jetix. The new season brings new characters with a more mature storyline. It follows much of the previous plots in that Marcus, a 14 year-old, and his...

19 years ago

Will Lucky Star Surpass Haruhi?

Lucky Star related merchandise has been getting a big boost in sales thanks to the anime adaption of the series (which was originally a filler comic). Each of the DVDs that have been released have had sales over 50,000. The pre-sale numbers for the volume four limited edition and...

19 years ago

Italian Police Confiscate Anime

Six people in Ancona (and other areas) have been charged by police in Italy for copyright violations due to producing and selling pirated DVDs of anime. The police confiscated around 80,000 dvds and $1.4 million (USD). The DVDs were manufactured at plants in Bologna, and around 3...

19 years ago

Manga Ranks in USA Today's Top 150 For September 23

USA Today's Booklist for the top 150 titles in literature has been released. Three volumes of manga made it onto the list for the week that ended on September 23rd. Naruto Vol. 18 was 74th, Naruto Vol. 17 was 100th, and Naruto Vol. 16 was 117th. For more information: Comi Press.

19 years ago

A First :GDH.K.K Issue Fansubbers with C&D

Probably the first incident of a Japanese company issuing a C&D for a currently airing series. GDH.K.K authorised FUNimation Entertainment to issue a C&D to Shinsen Subs on their behalf. The C&D was issued with regards to all torrents pertaning to the Romeo x Juliet series. The F...

19 years ago

October Anime and Gaming & Convention Schedule

TheOtaku has made a nice list of October anime and gaming conventions that people shouldn't miss out on. source: TheOtaku

19 years ago

Afro Samurai Movie

Gonzo has created a theatrical film version of Afro Samurai that will include new footage made just for the feature version. The show was shown on Spike TV in the US in January and on WOWOW in Japan in May. The film version is set to debut at the Cinema Rise theater in Shibuya on...

19 years ago

Geneon Leaves US Anime Industry

Geneon's US branch, Geneon USA, has informed all of its US retailers that it will cease the sales, production, and distribution of all its DVDs. The official date for the pullout is this Friday (September 28th) and it will go into effect at 5pm PDT. Source: Anime Nation.

19 years ago