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New Jersey's MangaNEXT to Host Tomo Maeda, Makoto Tateno

Sat, 4 Feb 2012 15:00:00 PST

Also: Peepo Choo creator Felipe Smith to attend February 24-26 convention

DMI Adds Boku wa Subete o Shitteiru Boys-Love Manga

Sat, 4 Feb 2012 12:00:00 PST

Shoko Takaku's I've Seen It All manga about doctor's "sweet physical love"

Daily Briefs

Sat, 4 Feb 2012 09:40:00 PST

• One Piece #65 Ties Record with 4-Million Print Run
• Japanese Groups: Blu-ray to Overtake DVD in 2013
• ToHeart2 Dungeon Travelers #2 Delayed Until Summer
• Maji Koi R! Game Delayed Until Further Notice
• One Piece Mobile Game Tops 2 Million Users in 17 Days
• Transformers Prime to Debut in Japan in Vanguard's Timeslot

Exclusive: AX 2010 Lost $1.2 Million; IDG to Boost Involvement

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 18:30:25 PST

Anime Expo '11 was profitable, but SPJA stays in debt; Takayuki Karahashi appointed SPJA Chair

1st Berserk Film's Music Video, TV Spot Posted

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:00:00 PST

1st of 3 films based on Kentaro Miura's fantasy series opens on Saturday in Japan

Media Blasters Halts Releases of Bakuman., Ikki Tousen Great Guardians

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:00:00 PST

February, March releases put on indefinite hold

Sentai Filmworks Licenses The Book of Bantorra Anime

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:48:21 PST

27-episode series based on Ishio Yamagata's light novels gets bilingual DVD release this year

Sentai Filmworks Licenses "The Book of Bantorra"

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:43:00 PST

The Occult Academy Opens Its Doors To North America This May

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:18:49 PST

NIS America Licenses Occult Academy TV Anime (Updated)

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:58:44 PST

Company to release 13-episode series with 4 bonus short episodes on Blu-ray disc

Sentai Acquires Zettai Karen Children

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:57:44 PST

Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the 52 episode Zettai Karen Children (Absolutely Lovely Children) anime television series from 2008. The adaptation of Takashi Shiina’s adventure manga about a government organization that manages (and babysits) three psychic preadolescent girl crime fighters will be released online and on subtitled DVD later this [...]

Sentai License Rescues GetBackers

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:57:04 PST

Sentai Filmworks has license rescued the former AD Vision title GetBackers. ADV released the 49 episode TV series domestically in 2004. Sentai will re-release the series digitally and on DVD later this year.

FUNi License Rescues Pretear

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:56:23 PST

FUNimation has announced its acquisition of broadcast, home entertainment, merchandising, and streaming rights to the 2001 magical girl anime TV series Shin Shirayuki Hime Densetsu Pretear (New Legend of Snow White, Pretear). ADV Films released the 13-episode series on domestic DVD in 2003.

AnimEigo’s Yawara! Going Out of Print

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:56:00 PST

AnimEigo has announced that its 40 episode Yawara! DVD boxed set will go out of print on August 31. AnimEigo secured an initial domestic distribution license for the 1989 shoujo/sports anime series in 2006 and released the first 40 episodes in a 6 disc DVD collection in 2008. In 2010, AnimEigo announced that it was [...]

Sekiei Ayakashi Mangatan Anime Online

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:55:10 PST

Weekly Young Jump magazine is now streaming the first of three web anime installments of an adaptation of Takanori Kawai’s historical supernatural action manga Sekiei Ayakashi Mangatan. The story revolves around an artist known for only painting monsters. Secretly, the artist actually paints the ayakashi he actually encounters in his daily life. The ongoing manga [...]

Tsuritama Anime Revealed

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:54:42 PST

The Fuji TV network has revealed the fifth Noitamina anime series to be directed by Kenji Nakamura (Ayakashi, Mononoke, Kuchu Buranko, C). Tsuritama, a fishing anime set on Japan’s Enoshima island starring four teen boys and a pet duck, will premiere in April. Yuichi Takahashi (Macross Frontier, Iron Vendetta) is providing the animation character designs [...]

Pretty Rhythm Second Series Announced

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:54:19 PST

TV Tokyo has announced that the current Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream television series will conclude in March and be replaced by a new sequel series, Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future. The sequel will be set three years later and will star anime versions of five real-life junior members of Korean pop group Kara: Somin, Shiyoon, [...]

New Dengeki Anime Bunko OVA Trailers

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:53:39 PST

????????????????????PV Media Works has released three lengthy trailers for its upcoming Dengeki Anime Bunko OVAs. Although originally scheduled for release last fall, all three episodes are now scheduled for Japanese release on February 15. ufotable is producing the three anime adaptations of Mikage Chihaya’s comedy manga Minori Scramble!, kashmir’s comedy manga Yuri Seijin Naoko-san, and [...]

ZETMAN Trailer

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:53:14 PST

TMS Entertainment has released a trailer for its upcoming ZETMAN horror/superhero anime television series, based Masakazu Katsura’s 2002 manga, itself inspired by Katsura’s 1989-1994 ZETMAN mini-series manga. The show will premiere in April. Since the 2002 Barom-One anime failed to do the job, might this finally be the present generation’s Guyver?

Niji-Iro Hotaru Teaser Released

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:52:45 PST

Japanese website Cinema Today has premiered the teaser trailer for Toei Animation’s forthcoming feature film Niji-Iro Hotaru ~Eien no Natsu Yasumi~ (Rainbow-Colored Fireflies: The Eternal Summer Vacation~). The adaptation of Masayuki Kawaguchi’s 2007 novel tells the story of Yuta, a sixth-grade boy grieving over his father’s death who gets the opportunity to experience a joyous [...]