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Question: Would Hello Kitty be considered anime? It’s been so Americanized for so long it almost seems to not count as an imported product from Japan.

The big news out of Pioneer was that they will be handling the home release of Card Captors, and that there will be two versions. There will be

Early production to Saber Marionette J to X has begun for a 2001 release date. The DVD releases of Saber Marionette J and J Again will be delayed

Among the announcements ADV made at their panel at the A-kon anime convention, in the new series department ADV has announced that they have acquired the rights to

A production panel at the A-kon convention yielded a few interesting news facts. The Neon Genesis Evangelion manga will soon be resuming after its hiatus due to a

John Woo and Chow Yun Fat, who have partnered on numerous Chinese action movies including A Better Tomorrow 1 & 2, Once A Theif, The Killer and Hardboiled,

FUNimation has released some Dragon Ball Z news that should please fans. Cartoon Network has purchased all of the Dragon Ball Z episodes. They plan to air the

The recent revised Saturday morning lineup for Kids WB contained an unknown show called Wild Card in addition to Card Captors. Wild Card will be an hour block

4Kids relayed a batch of new Pokemon news at their recent shareholders meeting. The rundown of interesting facts was: The Pokémon 2000 movie will hit theaters July 21.

Anime Expo has announced that Kazuki Akane will be attending as a Guest of Honor. Kazuki Akane was the director of the television series Vision of Escaflowne, and

The Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention will be screening the Utena Movie Apocalypse of Adolescence on Sunday, June 11th at 12:00pm. The convention will also

Fanboy Entertainment, publisher of Dark Angel: Phoenix Resurrection, Sidekicks and Spellbound, will be releasing a series of interesting t-shirts. The first t-shirt, which will be released this month,

The fan organization The Friends of CLAMP Coalition (FACC) have begun a letter writing campaign and boycott of Mixx/Tokyopop Entertainment to try to block Mixx’s translation and publication,

Fanboy Entertainment will premier the first issue of Tomoko Taniguchi’s latest manga serial, Spellbound, this August. Tomoko Taniguchi is best known in the West as creator of the

With the renewed interest in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures stemming from the revival of the manga series, the Capcom fighting game, and the new OAV series, Kotobukiya has revealed