Search Results for 'Japanese'

Point Park Anime Club aims to celebrate Japanese art form, p...

Katie Castelli is quite enthusiastic about celebrating the art of anime. "I couldn't be without an anime club, and I don't feel like other people should be without it either," said Castelli, a freshman mass communication [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Disney Hopes ‘Arrietty’ Will Be Breakthrough for Japanese St...

Disney is putting its weight behind the coming animated film, “The Secret World of Arrietty,” a Studio Ghibli feature that is based on Mary Norton’s beloved children’s book, “The Borrowers.” “A [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Anime Visalia Japanese animation club going strong for two d...

It's been nearly 20 years since Spring Logan of Tulare fell in love with Japanese animation known as anime. Marriage and two kids later, her attraction to the art is as strong as ever. "I like the art and storytelling," Loga [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Anime warms Russian, Japanese ties

My career in anime cultural diplomacy started in 2007 when I was asked by the Foreign Ministry to give a lecture to diplomats prior to their overseas postings. The lecture covered the anime industry and its goals. One of the diplomats [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Japanese anime fans set new Twitter record

Last weekend, a Japanese television broadcast of classic Studio Ghibli anime Castle in the Sky prompted more than 11,349 tweets per second at a key moment in the movie. This perfect storm of tweets broke the previous record of 8,868 tweet [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Anime, manga and Japanese pop culture at Baltimore Otakon Co...

The setting is mid-July, downtown Baltimore and the city is in the middle of a heat wave that would inspire even the most conservative to walk around in a minimum of clothes all day. Your destination is the convention center to cover a co [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

'Summer Wars' is Japanese anime fun about Web peril, teen he...

The Internet is messed up - everywhere. And Oz, a mega-site that combines social networking with e-commerce with entertainment and the chance to order pizza, has been corrupted. It's a World Wide Web catastrophe, but luckily there [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Legendary Japanese Anime Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki Turns 70 (...

People all over the world adore Japanese anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, and they’ve taken to Twitter to wish the artist a happy 70th birthday. Miyazaki has helped shape the world of anime over the course of his five-decade career [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2011 | 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

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

Anime Expo® 2010 Announces Japanese Musical Artists, Megumi ...

Anime Expo® is pleased to announce that Japanese musical artists, Megumi Nakajima and May’n, will be official Guests of Honor at its July convention. Anime Expo, North America’s largest anime and manga convention, is sche [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Brazilian youths treated to Japanese 'anime' posters

A collection of about 100 posters featuring Japanese ''manga'' and ''anime'' characters are among exhibits attracting youths in Brazil in a series of ''Cool Japan'' events under way in the Latin American country.At the Academia Brasileira d [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Japanese Charts: Xbox 360 Anime Bar Maid Game Debuts At No. ...

Tomodachi Collection, Dragon Quest IX, and Wii Sports Resort remained frontrunners this week on Japanese video game sales charts, while a new voyeuristic Xbox 360 game featuring anime girls was able to break the top five. D3 Publisher's Dr [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

JAPANESE MUSICAL GROUP AKB48 TO APPEAR AT NY ANIME FESTIVAL

The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) today announced Japanese pop music group AKB48 will appear at its 2009 event as Special Musical Guests. The 2009 New York Anime Festival, an anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture convention from the [...]