Discotek has announced its acquisition of the 1978 Sanrio-produced short anime film Ringing Bell (Chirin no Suzu). The 47-minute-long film about a lamb that decides to become a
Game maker Bushiroad has announced that its long-on-hiatus anime project Neppu Kairiku Bushi Lord is being relaunched as a Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road anime TV series. The project
A second season of the Oshiri Kajiri Mushi (“Bottom-biting Bug”) anime television series will premiere on the NHK-BS Premium channel on September 30. The 20-episode first series aired
Cinema Today has released a new three-minute trailer for Toei’s upcoming CG animated Space Pirate Captain Harlock motion picture. Yahoo Japan is also now exclusively streaming a 12-minute
Japanese publisher Core Magazine has announced the end of publication of the Comic Megastore adult manga anthology magazine following yesterday’s arrest of Core Magazine editorial department chairman, 55-year-old
The family of anime director Ryutaro Nakamura has confirmed that 58-year-old Nakamura passed away on June 29, dying of pancreatic cancer. Nakamura directed anime including the 1992 children’s
Performance art development comany NEGA Design Works has announced its development of a live-action/anime hybrid motion picture titled Mint. Shutaro Oku will direct the film’s live-action segments while
Harmony Gold U.S.A. Inc. has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Hasbro, Inc. seeking an injunction against Hasbro’s continued sale of the “G.I. Joe and the Transformers …
So, the first trailer for 47 Ronin, director Carl Rinsch and star Keanu Reeves’ 175-million-dollar re-envisioning of the historical 1703 Ako incident, now commonly known as “Chushingura,” bears
Question: I’ve been enjoying Stella Women’s Academy High School Division Class C3 so far. It’s got the “cute girls doing cute things” vibe and it’s from GAINAX, the
Finally got a display case for the treasure I acquired at the recent Anime Expo charity auction, a hand-drawn Kick-Heart illustration t-shirt from director Masaaki Yuasa with a
Publisher Kodansha has announced that Shuichi Shigeno’s Initial D auto-racing manga will get a second anime feature film titled “Shin Gekijouban Initial D” (Initial D New Movie) next
The Pokémon Smash television program has released the first footage from this fall’s fifth Pocket Monster television series. The Pocket Monster XY anime series, based on the upcoming
