Sentai Filmworks is gearing up to release the complete Gatchaman Crowds anime on DVD and Blu-ray on September 2, which… is pretty darn close! Despite the fact that the release is right around the corner, Sentai just recently announced the English dub cast for the …Read more »
It wouldn't be a week in anime news without a new crowdfunding project, a format that's gotten so ubiquitous it's impossible to write about every one of them. But this isn't your average Kickstarter (whatever that means). Nope, this is a new project by none …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai, director of 5 Centimeters Per Second , Children Who Chase Lost Voices and other films with similarly long titles has directed a 30-second commercial promoting a currently under-construction terminal at Vietnam’s No Bai Airport. It’s being built by Japanese firm Taisei, for whom …Read more »
FUNimation had a handful of announcements to make, with plenty of license pickups at this weekend's Otakon convention, from Haruhi Suzumiya to Lucky Star and more. Fans of Shinichiro Watanabe's beloved Cowboy Bebop anime will definitely get a kick out of one announcement in particular, …Read more »
Good news for Attack on Titan fans: more anime is on the way. A lot more, in fact. First up is an OVA series planned for the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015. The catch: it's a pretty short. Still, Titan fans hungry for …Read more »
An anime adaptation of popular manga Prison School ( Kangoku Gakuen ) is on the way. The anime was announced via the release of the 14th volume of the manga, which was released in Japan last Wednesday. Prison School is an over-the-top, definitely-not-kids'-stuff manga about …Read more »
As previously reported, there's more Durarara!! anime on the way, and a recent update has the action pegged to kick off in January 2015. Durarara!! x2 has the staff from the previous anime returning—including director Takahiro Omori, series composition writer Noboru Takagi, and character designer …Read more »
Among the fun planned for this coming weekend's Otakon convention—which takes place at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD August 8-10—is a special Sailor Moon Day. Viz Media is organizing the event for Saturday, August 9, and it will include a cosplay gathering, official …Read more »
English-language anime news sites and Twitter experienced a flurry of activity Sunday evening as reports circulated that Studio Ghibli, the studio behind Ponyo , Spirited Away and The Wind Rises , would be closing its doors. Sites like Twitch posted articles with headlines like “Studio …Read more »
Harmony Gold, the company behind Robotech , canceled their Robotech Academy Kickstarter project August 2nd, six days before the project’s deadline. Robotech Academy had received about $200,000 in pledges, far short of the $500,000 goal. Robotech Academy , if successfully funded, was to have been …Read more »
FUNimation has been promoting the North American theatrical release of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods pretty heavily, from a collaboration with comedy video creators Mega64 to a handful of clips previewing the anime film's English dub. With the theatrical expansion set for August 5, …Read more »
It’s been 15 years since Tai and his friends spent their summer vacation in the Digital World. Digimon Adventure is celebrating its 15 th anniversary by returning to its roots. A teaser trailer released earlier this week revealed that there will be a new show …Read more »
As previously reported, the next Naruto anime flick has the foreboding title of The Last: Naruto the Movie , and it's slated to open in Japanese theaters on December 6. Series creator Masashi Kishimoto is supervising the story and designs, and the official website was …Read more »
Fans of Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind will remember Nausicaa’s main method of transport was a sleek one-man glider called a Mehve. The Mehve is a work of fiction, but one man, Kazuhiko Hachiya, has been working on a real-life version …Read more »
Estimating losses in the trillions of yen due to piracy of anime and manga, the Japanese government, plus a coalition of anime companies, will begin a five-month crackdown campaign starting in August. The campaign will mostly focus on websites in China where anime and manga …Read more »
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