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Anime Distributor Launches Piracy Assault, Sues 1337 BitTorr...

Piracy is an issue that is troubling many content publishers worldwide, but the responses to copyright infringement differ from company to company. A great example of how not to stop piracy was made by the the producers of the new Anime [...]

Posted On : Jan, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Anime on display in BLAM! art exhibit

Consider the anime exhibit at Fayetteville State University a blast from your comics past. The "BLAM! 2011 Historical Anime to the Present" art show at Fayetteville State University's Rosenthal Gallery displays about 4 [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Anime-SPARK! Adds Samurai Dan and Jillian Cogla

Anime-SPARK! is excited to announce that full-time martial arts instructors, Samurai Dan and Jillian Coglan, will be joining the convention coming up next month. The convention will be held February 10-14, 2011 at the Clarion Hotel & [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Fans Launch 'Keep Anime Alive' Pro-Industry Site

Anime fans Colin Harvie and Chris Perry have established a group called the Anime Defense Project whose primary project at this time is the newly created KeepAnimeAlive.com website. According to Perry, the site's goal is to provide a [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Kimi to Boku Flash Anime Gets Live-Action Film in May

Shigeto Yamagara's popular Flash anime Kimi to Boku (You and I) will get a live-action film in May with lead actor Aoi Nakamura (Beck, Q.E.D., Ōoku: The Inner Chambers). Voice actress/singer Maaya Sakamoto will voice Gin-Ō- [...]

Posted On : Jan, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Verizon Launches Anime Network on FiOS TV VOD

Verizon's FiOS TV customers now have on-demand access to the cultural phenomenon of Japanese animation known as "anime," with the launch of the Anime Network on FiOS TV Video on Demand. Now available to all FiOS TV su [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

NYPD Band Plays Yamato Anime Theme at Macy's Parade (Video)

The New York Police Department Marching Band performed the title theme song from the classic space opera anime Space Battleship Yamato during the 84th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City on Thursday. Weather anchor [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

PlaySpan expands its pay-per-view video marketplace with ani...

In recent months, PlaySpan has built a video marketplace where users can browse through video samples and then pay for a complete show if they decided they like it. Today, the company is adding a fifth major source of videos for the mark [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Yars’ Revenge’s epic anime-styled return headed PSN, XBLA, P...

cThree decades ago, Yars’ Revenge owned arcades and home consoles. The games’ overall popularity has faded despite remaining a Gen X favorite, but it’s poised to make a comeback in a big, big way. Atari has announced th [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Sentai Filmworks Adds Clannad Anime Film with Dub, Sub

David Williams of the North American anime distributor Sentai Filmworks confirmed on the AnimeOnDVD forums that his company will release the Clannad anime film with English dubbing and subtitles next March. Sentai Filmworks will also dub [...]

Posted On : Nov, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Morita-san wa Mukuchi Has 2nd Anime Release Planned

The official website for Takeshobo's Manga Club and Manga Life MOMO magazines confirmed on Monday that there will be an original video anime (OVA) adaptation of Tae Sano's Morita-san wa Mukuchi manga and added that a second anime [...]

Posted On : Nov, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Anime actors grace Garema place with Cosplay

Actors represent specific characters drawn from anime and other forms of popular art in Japan. In Cosplay, any entity from the real or virtual world that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a character. An obvious [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Anime Fanatics Unite as Cosplayers (Video)

Anime Fanatics Unite as CosplayersStephanie Lin The New York Anime Festival and Comic Con, from Oct 14-16 in the Javits Center, celebrated not just the characters from comics and science fiction, but the people who bring those characters [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Marvel Anime Irons Out Its Future Plans

Tony Stark was cartoonish enough without actually being an animated character, but we were on hand at New York Comic-Con to witness the very first episode of Marvel's Anime Iron Man! Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb introduced [...]