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Now Loading To Launch Next Month

The new video game and Asian pop culture magazine Now Loading has announced plans to debut next month. The independent monthly publication from IROIROMODE Media will cover Asian pop-culture trends, anime, tech gear, drama, music, travel spots, and niche ...

All Anime World Announces Cutest Anime Girl 2008 Voting

Fan site All Anime World has announced the launch of its eighth annual “Cutest Anime Girl” competition. All Anime World is currently accepting e-mail nominations for cute female anime characters. Visitors to the All Anime World website will be ...

Crunchyroll Announces Shugo Chara & Skip Beat Distribution

Crunchyroll has formally announced that its distribution partnership with Japanese broadcastor TV Tokyo will include the current Shugo Chara! & Skip Beat! shoujo anime series. Shugo Chara! made its television premiere in October 2007 and is currently ongoing. The ...

Second Mangatarou Anime Production Announced

An official website has launched to announced the February 13th release of a Flash anime OVA adaptation of Mangatarou’s 1996 manga series Jigoku Koshien (Hell Baseball Tournament). The site features a streaming trailer for the upcoming OVA. Business Jump magazine ...

Astro Boy Trailer Released

Moviefone now hosts the first teaser trailer for Imagi Entertainment’s full CG Astro Boy motion picture. The film is scheduled for theatrical release on October 23, 2009. Source: Twitch

Precure All Stars Movie Website Launched

An official Japanese website for the spring 2009 Pretty Cure motion picture has launched, confirming that the “Precure All Stars” motion picture will feature all three sets of Pretty Cure heroines. Source: Saishin Anime Jouhou

Gonzo to Produce Saki Anime?

The Moon Phase diary reports that Gonzo is tentatively planned to develop an anime adaptation of Ritz Kobayashi’s manga series Saki, the story of a high school girl with a unique talent for playing mahjong. Japanese producer/distribution company Pony Canyon ...

Another Peek at New Street Fighter Anime

+D Games now hosts four new screenshots of the upcoming Street Fighter ~Aratanaru Kizuna~ (Street Fighter: Renewed Bonds) OVA scheduled for Japanese release with the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game. The screenshots appear to reveal that new ...

Spileberg & Smith Considering Adaptation of Oldboy Manga

Film School Rejects reports that actor Will Smith has confirmed that he has plans to star in director Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of Garon Tsuchiya & Nobuaki Minegishi manga series Oldboy. Contrary to speculation that surfaced two weeks ago, the ...

Ask John: Which Anime Illustrate Japan Most Accurately?

Question: Which series do the best job at portraying Japanese society as it is? (Not an escapist wish-fulfillment or idealized version of Japan.) Answer: Two important points must be established prior to delving into specific address of this question. First, my own ...

Broccoli International USA Closing

Japanese media company Broccoli has announced that its board of directors has decided to shut down the company’s American distribution subsidiary, Broccoli International USA. Broccoli USA was launched in Los Angeles, California in March 2002. Broccoli’s American anime distribution subsidiary, ...

NTV to Deliver Programming on Joost

Japanese broadcast network NTV, in association with entertainment company Yoshimoto Kogyo and advertising company Dentsu, have announced plans to distribute 35 hours of Japanese programming online internationally through the Joost website beginning next month. The 105 total episodes of ...

Ad Lib Ouji OVA Announced

Japanese retailers including 7&Y, Byakuya, and e-hon report that an Ad Lib Ouji (Ad Lib Prince) “Gokufu Box” will be released on December 20th containing the first volume of Keiichi Akatsuki’s 2001 manga and a 60 minute long anime DVD ...

First Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari Teaser Released

The official website for the upcoming Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari television series, a spin-off from Tenchi Muyo, now hosts a 67 second long teaser trailer. The trailer features extensive pre-production background art, but no characters or animation. Source: Anime News Network

Live Action Mei-chan no Shitsuji Drama Announced

Japanese entertainment news site Oricon reports that Riko Miyagi’s 2006 and ongoing shoujo manga Mei-chan no Shitsuji (Mei-chan’s Butler) will be adapted into a live action television series. The story about Mei, a young girl who inherits a vast fortune ...

Seitokai no Ichizon Anime in Development?

The Moon Phase Diary reports that the next issue of Dragon Magazine will include a major announcement regarding Sekina Aoi & Kira Inugami Seitokai no Ichizon light novel series. The novel series has already been announced for adaptation into manga, ...

Ask John: Why Doesn’t America Have Syndicated Anime?

Question: Why don’t we have anime in syndication? I like to know. Answer: There are three primary reasons for the lack of syndicated anime on American television: lack of sustained viewer interest, the short length of most anime, and the absence of long-term ...

MTV Seeks Fanboys/Fangirls for True Life

MTV is seeking 3 fascinating fantasy obsessives to appear in an upcoming episode of its documentary series True Life. MTV is looking for a cosplayer so committed that he or she only goes by character name, or someone who uses ...

Dogs Anime Announced

The December issue of Ultra Jump Magazine will include a formal announcement of plans for an anime adaptation of Shirow Miwa’s stylish action manga series Dogs. The original Dogs manga series was serialized from 2000 to 2001. The story restarted ...

Ristorante Paradiso Anime Announced

Japanese publisher Ohta Books has announced that Natsume Ono’s light drama manga story Ristorante Paradiso will premier as a TV anime next year. “RisPara,” as it’s abbreviated by Japanese fans, will be the second anime series broadcast in the Fuji ...

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