Bandai Announcements from Comic Con

At last week’s San Diego Comic Con, Bandai Entertainment officially announced plans to begin publishing English translated manga in March 2005. Books will retail in the $9.99 – $10.99 range and will include the original Japanese color pages, and dust jackets. Unlike certain other domestic manga publishing companies, Bandai will focus on quality, instead of quantity with it manga acquisitions and releases.

Bandai also announced that the company will sponsor the production of an anime series titled “DICE,” to be animated by Xebec Studios.

Bandai confirmed that its domestic release of the Dear Boys basketball anime TV series may have its name changed for America, into something more “masculine.”

Source: Anime on DVD