Month: March 2008

Question: How much Machine Robo anime is there? Why wasn’t all of Machine Robo: Revenge of Chronos series released?

Question: Do you believe that the anime industry is at least partly to blame for giving fans a reason to download fansubs?

Shueisha’s Jump Square Magazine has formally announced that living legend American comic book creator Stan Lee, the co-creator of Spider-Man and the X-Men, will collaborate with Shaman King

AnimeWho, a new mainstream American anime distribution label from adult anime distributor JapanAnime, has announced plans to release the 2003 “Joe vs. Joe” (Futari no Joe) OVA series

Advance details on this month’s Tokyo International Anime Fair reveal that the April issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s Newtype Magazine, which goes on sale in Japan on the 10th,

Shueisha’s Cobalt Books imprint has formally announced that Mizue Tani’s series of “Hakushaku to Yosei” (The Count and The Fairy) historical fantasy novels will be adapted into an

Japanese publisher MediaWorks now hosts a webpage promoting the upcoming release of a Shina Dark anime promtional DVD. A Shina Dark music video collection DVD will be included

Fan site Ghibli World has published a summarized transcript of a Japanese interview with Studio Ghibli producer Suzuki Toshio regarding Hayao Miyazaki’s work on his upcoming film Ponyo

Viz Media has announced that the 2007 Blue Dragon anime television series, inspired by the Xbox 360 RPG, will air on the Cartoon Network this spring.

Question: Without argument the anime industry is in a downward spiral, or at least in some bizarre transitioning phase. But what exactly caused it? Did the companies over