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Question: This is a simple question I hope you can answer. Why does Ryoko in Tenchi Muyo have a tail?

Palisades Marketing has shown off its upcoming Space Channel 5 3.75″ mini-figures line (pending final approval) at the Chicago Wizard World Con 2000. Source: Figures.com

Variety reports that Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh’s latest feature film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, will get its American debut October 9th at the 38th New York Film

DVD releases of their Fansub lines will be forthcoming. Nadia: Secret of Blue Water will be released some time next year, with the City Hunter TV coming afterwards.

AnimEigo’s promised big news was that they have acquired the rights to the You’re Under Arrest TV series. It will be both subbed and dubbed on DVD only

Bandai is planning a new expanded VHS release of Brain Powered (Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino’s intended answer to Evangelion) with 7 episodes on 1 VHS tape for $29.98.

Their release of Blood: The Last Vampire may be piggy-backed on a theatrical re-release of Ghost in the Shell because the feature is only 50 minutes long. If

Anime on DVD spoke with Media Blasters in the dealers’ room of Otakon. They [Media Blasters] are very pleased with how their DVD sales are going. It looks

Pioneer will be distributing the Sailor Moon S and SS TV series with 3 episodes per tape on dubbed (Cartoon Network version) and uncut subtitled VHS. The dual

Irresponsible Captain Tylor may not get a DVD version. Jeff Thompson of the Right Stuf suggested a petition drive to persuade TRSI management to move forward on a

Viz does own the US rights to the Ayashi no Ceres manga and television series. They announced plans to premier the TV series next spring with 2 or

Bandai premiered the uncut dub of the Gundam Wing OAV series, Endless Waltz at Otakon. All of the background music and content was left in the showing, including

Details are scant, but a report from the industry panel at this weekend’s Otakon convention suggests that Yasuomi Umetsu’s most recent production, the 30 minute Kite side-story OAV

A new television commercial for the anime adaptation of the Inu-Yasha manga began airing in Japan on July 31st. The commercial is very action oriented, and features the

A dubbed two disc set of the first 13 episodes and the first movie of original Dragonball will be released October 24th. The set will retail for $29.99.