Crunchyroll has spent the last few weeks announcing additions to its spring anime lineup, and today's should please fans of the lighter side of Naruto . As previously reported, Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals ( Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden ) is taking …Read more »
The anime adaptation of Kenji Taira's Saikyou Jump -serialized Naruto spin-off manga, Naruto SD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden , is almost here. Helmed by Naruto Shippuden film director Masahiko Murata and set to premiere on April 3 in Bleach 's time slot, you …Read more »
Namco Bandai's next ninja brawler, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations , is no doubt its most loaded yet. Boasting 70 playable characters and over 65 minutes of Studio Pierrot animation, its contents would probably make your average game trailer explode. Perhaps that's why Namco …Read more »
While it should come as no surprise, since each successive Naruto film has arrived in the summer, Monday's issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump will be announcing a new Naruto Shippuden movie for summer 2012 in Japan. This film marks the sixth Naruto Shippuden film, …Read more »
You either love Naruto 's Rock Lee or not, but hopefully you do, because he's about to get his own animated series, as announced in the first monthly issue of Shueisha's Saikyou Jump magazine. The anime is based on Kenji Taira's Naruto spin-off comedy manga, …Read more »
Making its debut on April 21, the 55th volume of Masashi Kishimoto's mega-hit Naruto has officially hit #1 on Oricon's weekly comic ranking charts. This makes it the 11th Naruto volume to pull off such a feat. The numbers for the volume during the week …Read more »
Netflix's Instant Queue is amazing, though sometimes the stuff readily available can be a bit... dubious. Their anime section started out that way, and has gradually improved since. Now Viz Media is looking to up its variety even more with a solid collection of popular …Read more »
Say what you will about this upcoming Naruto game, but Japanese developers sure do know how to milk a genre when it's hot. In a departure from previous Naruto titles, Naruto Shippuden: Kizuna Drive brings co-op multiplayer battling into the mix in a style very …Read more »
Viz Media has put together yet another sinister way to lure folks into the world of anime. As of yesterday, they've got a gang of free first episodes up on iTunes, just in time to get your loved ones hooked for the holidays. The shows …Read more »
Good news for manga fans with iPads: Viz Media just released their official manga reader app for the platform, along with an opening volley of downloadable manga to sweeten the launch. The app itself is free, and the series they're kicking things off with come …Read more »
Though it appears Japanese authorities are still in the dark as to how this type of leak occurred, ANN has been updating the story throughout the day. Kyoto's High-Tech Crime Task Force joined other police units in busting a Japanese middle-schooler for distributing manga through …Read more »
Perhaps you've noticed something new on our front page recently. We're pretty darn excited to present you with another reason to stick around and hang out with us online, in the form of streaming videos of a variety of anime series, all at your fingertips …Read more »
Before you get too excited, this is not a top 10, 5, or even 3 list. I enjoy skimming those as much as the next, but if I haven't been cataloging every single thing I touched over the course of a year, it …Read more »
Fall of 2009 was host to a special series of events in Japan known as the Jump Super Anime Tour, and among all of the excitement were two new anime shorts for Weekly Shonen Jump series Naruto and Toriko . Actually, for the latter—an animal-hunting …Read more »
Viz Media is throwing a limited-time offer out there through the May issue of Shonen Jump. Readers of the monthly manga anthology can use a special invitational code to check out a 120-page preview of Naruto volume 45, and the offer is only available from …Read more »
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