Doraemon co-creator Fujiko F. Fujio may not be with us anymore, but his stories live on and, come October 31, will light up the WOWOW premium television service at midnight. The stories in question belong to his Ishoku Tanpen-ShÅ« ( Unique Short Stories ), a …Read more »
Japanese gamers are eating up Sega's latest on-the-go offering in the PS series, Phantasy Star Portable , beating out the week in software sales according to Media Create's most recent chart. This shouldn't be too surprising, especially considering the rabid hold portable hits like the …Read more »
Right Stuf's Nozomi Entertainment just shot out a press release detailing the street date for the season 2 DVD collection of Emma: A Victorian Romance . The box set, which will include a 48-page "Victorian Gazette" book along with the 12-episodes (plus a recap show …Read more »
Fans of the excellent thriller Monster will find a lot to look forward to next year, as two more series from creator Naoki Urasawa are topping VIZ Media's 2009 release list. The titles in question are 20th Century Boys and Pluto: Urusawa X Tezuka , …Read more »
In your rush to absorb as much content as possible, it's not hard to believe you may have missed our Featured Video section positioned just below the news on the front page. This is typically the home to our friends over at Manga Entertainment, so …Read more »
Seeming to ever be on the forefront of digital distribution of anime in the US , FUNimation has just gone Youtube! Starting now, FUNimation is offering whole episodes of Blue Gender , Peach Girl , and Kiddy Grade to watch for free on Youtube, in …Read more »
It's not too often that an artist/writer team's hottest manga completes its run in North America before their next project begins, but that's been the case ever since the day we sat staring blank-eyed at the final pages of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's smash …Read more »
Taiyo Matsumoto's Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White , has been stuck in my head since it first made its way over here in the pages of PULP sans the pre-colon moniker. Black & White is as memorable for its story of the titular outcasts as it …Read more »
Anyone who knows me well enough will tell you I'm a sucker for anything tokusatsu related. Certainly not to the lengths of our own Mighty Mike Dent, but I'm a fan nonetheless. With that in mind, it's no wonder my interest is piqued over the …Read more »
A unique new SRPG from Atlus was just released yesterday; Spectral Force 3 . Having slipped under a lot of gamers' radars, this is the first game in the series to be released in the US, it's for Xbox 360, a system that doesn't get …Read more »
Try as our secretive EIC (AKA TV's Patrick Macias) might, the cat has been let roaring out of its bag in regards to his company jaPRESS's latest project. The production of Last Gasp 's recent acquisition, Junko Mizuno's ( Pure Trance , Cinderalla ) Fancy …Read more »
Gurren Laagan premiered last night on the Sci-Fi Channel's Ani-Monday block, as well as the series Now and Then, Here and There . As of yesterday, you can now catch these two shows every monday night at 11pm EST! If you missed last night's episode of Gurren …Read more »
Even if you missed Anime Expo this year, you can still see highlights from Otaku USA 's panel on Youtube, thanks to the efforts of one avid otaku with a camcorder. While the Otaku USA coverage does not start till almost 5 minutes into the video, you …Read more »
Koji Matsumoto's (Saori) supernatural series, having enjoyed a long run in Kodansha's Young Magazine , will be realized in the land of flesh and blood next year. The setup is definitely promising; it involves the search for a young man's brother on a strange island …Read more »
Regrettably, I wasn't able to stop by Imagi's booth, in which they exercised some clever methods of promotion for the upcoming CG feature Astro Boy film. The movie itself features the voice acting of Nicholas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, and …Read more »
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