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Yurumates 4-Panel Comedy Manga Gets 2nd Anime

The March issue of Takeshobo's Monthly Manga Club magazine is announcing on Friday that a second anime project based on saxyun's four-panel Yurumates manga has been green-lit. The gag comedy centers on Yurume, an 18-year-old r [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Catherine Demo Mixes Block Puzzles, Anime, Romance, Horror

I hate to use this construction, but Atlus’ Catherine is a wacky Japanese videogame. Forgive me! But I don’t know what else to call a game in which the main character, sporting ram horns, carrying a pillow and wearing boxer s [...]

Posted On : Jan, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Manga/Anime's Tiger Mask Inspires Another Gift-Giver

On the morning of New Year's Day, a security guard discovered a stack of six gift-boxed backpacks on the doorstep leading to the Odawara Child Guidance Center in Kanagawa Prefecture. Attached to the three black backpacks and three re [...]

Posted On : Jan, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Interest: Manga/Anime Hero Leaves Gifts on Christmas Morning

On Christmas morning, a child guidance center in Maebashi City discovered a pyramid of 10 30,000-yen (about US$360) backpacks — each in an individually gift-wrapped box — on its doorstep. Attached to the boxes was a card that [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Aniwave festival of anime, manga, Japanese culture grows in ...

As a result of finding a larger venue, organizers expect to see the biggest crowd ever at a local celebration of Japanese animation, manga and traditional arts.Wilmington’s fourth Aniwave Festival will be held 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sat [...]

Posted On : Nov, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Gainax's Aim for the Top! Gunbuster Anime Gets Manga

The December issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine is announcing on Thursday that artist Kabocha is drawing a manga series based on Gainax's Aim for the Top! Gunbuster science-fiction anime. The manga series will launch i [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Piracy sails high seas of anime and manga

It seems that whenever I've considered what to write about regarding the state of the anime and manga industry as of late, two topics tend to jump out: piracy and publishers leaving the market. Fortunately, it seems that the pub [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Anime and Manga releases for the week of October 25th

Here is the list of anime, manga as well as live action films that will hit stores this week from companies like Section23, NIS America, Yen Press, VIZ Media and FUNimation as well as others. Some of the notable releases include the Cana [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Manga 'opera' hits Europe

THE heroes of Japanese manga cartoons are preparing to take Europe by storm in a new 'pop opera' featuring a wild mix of martial arts and music billed as the world's biggest manga show ever. The tour starts on Saturday i [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Sket Dance Manga Gets TV Anime Next Spring

This year's 47th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is confirming on Monday that a television anime adaptation of Kenta Shinohara's Sket Dance school comedy manga has been green-lit for next spring. More details [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Woman Arrested for Uploading Anime via Perfect Dark

The Nikkan Sports and Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspapers report that Japanese police have arrested a 42-year-old unemployed woman named Tomoko Sasaki on Friday for allegedly uploading anime online, without the copyright holders' permiss [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Tony Stark Is Turning Japanese in Iron Man Anime Intro [Vide...

Iron Man is a pretty good fit for anime, if you think about it: a brilliant, arrogant playboy billionaire who dons a mechanical suit often to fight other mechanical suited menaces in explosive mechanical battles over glittering cityscape [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Interview with Charlene Ingram, FUNimation Anime Brand Manag...

After coming on last year as a Brand Manager for FUNimation Entertainment, Charlene Ingram took on a few shows that stood out from the norm at FUNimation such as Rin and made the push for booty shorts for the Dragonaut release. Since the [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Manga & Anime Japan

Japan Creative Centre, Kyoto International Manga Museum, the Japan Foundation and Animax are jointly organizing the exhibition, “Manga & Anime! Japan - A Journey From The History To Modern Day Inspirations - ”, from [...]