The official homepage for AQ Interactive’s Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan PSP game has added a streaming anime trailer. The mahjong game features the characters of 07th Expansion’s popular Higurashi no Naku Koro ni mystery/horror game franchise. It’s scheduled for Japanese release on November 12. Source:animenation.net
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Digital Manga Publishing has announced plans sell copies of its 560 page Little Butterfly Omnibus manga volume at this year’s Yaoi-con, far in advance of the book’s February 15, 2010 street date. The Little Butterfly Omnibus will re-issue all three out of print volumes of Hinako Takanaga yaoi manga in a single $29.95 book. Furthermore, [...]
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The advertising obi on new copies of the seventh volume of author Shotaro Mizuki & illustrator Soichi Ito’s romantic fantasy adventure light novel series Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaoh (The Number One Behind the Devil King) has announced that an anime adaptation is in development. The 2008 and ongoing novel series revolves around teen boy Akuto [...]
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The Tsuito Akatsuka Fujio-Ten ~Gag de Kake Nukeru 72-Nen~ (A Fujio Akatsuka Memorial Exhibition: 72 Years of Advancing Through Gags) memorial exhibition for the late manga artist Fujio Akatsuka opened at the Matsuya department store in Tokyo’s Ginza district on the 26 and will remain open until September 7. Akatsuka, the creator of beloved manga/anime [...]
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Pop Japan Travel is now accepting reservations for participation in its Jump Festa 2010 tour of Japan. This vacation features admission to the Jump Festa 2010 promotional event that hosts exclusive short anime movie screenings, guest appearances by celebrity manga-ka, and participation from numerous major Japanese manga, anime, and video game companies. Source:animenation.net
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The DC Anime Club in collaboration with Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan, will host a free public screening of the Evangelion 1.0 motion picture on Wednesday September 9, 2009, at 6:30 pm. The screening will be held at the Japan Information and Culture Center in Washington D.C. The event is free and [...]
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Kadokawa’s Newtype Magazine, in association with Bandai Channel, have now launched Japanese streaming distribution of the 12 episode Fight Ippatsu! Jyuden-chan television anime. The online episodes are the “uncensored” version episodes currently airing on the AT-X satellite network. The show’s official website now reveals that Japanese terrestrial broadcast will begin on October 5. The risqué [...]
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Toro Kitao’s manga series “Saibancho! Koko wa Choeki 4 Nen de, Dousuka?” (Judge! Here are 4 Years of Imprisonment, Understand?) will serve as the basis for a live action TV drama tentatively titled “Bouchou Mania 09″ (Attendance Mania 09). Rising actor Osamu Mukai will star as a man who makes a hobby of attending courtroom [...]
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Studio A-1 Pictures has released a 4:14 behind-the-scenes video for its upcoming Tonari no 801-chan R anime promotional video. The original opening anime will be included in limited edition copies of Ajiko Kojima’s Tonari no 801-chan manga volume 4 that go on sale September 10. This video clip really reveals exactly how toilsome producing anime [...]
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