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The Japan Information and Culture Center (JICC), part of the Public Affairs Section of the Embassy of Japan, will screen Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW on September 30 at 6:30 p.m. Held at the JICC Auditorium in Washington D.C., the showing will include English subtitles. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is [...]
Manga distribution site J-Comi will begin beta testing for a paid “J-comi Premium” service on October 1. This new feature will distribute adult, boys’ love, and erotic and violent manga, including out-of-print titles, to users for a fee. For the beta test version, the service’s monthly fee will be 105 yen (about US$1.40). J-Comi Premium will require [...]
The voice actress group Sphere will perform the opening theme song “High Powered” forShinryaku!? Ika Musume, the second Squid Girl television anime season which will premiere on September 26. The anime departments of the retailers HMV and Tower Records reported on the announcement from the group’s “Athletic Harmonies -Dangerous Stage-” event onSaturday. The four members — Minako Kotobuki, Ayahi Takagaki, Haruka Tomatsu, and Aki Toyosaki [...]
Funimation has released the complete English cast list for its forthcoming release of Fairy Tail. The series will be released starting in November with the first 12 episodes in a DVD/BD combo pack. The ADR director is Tyler Walker. ALZACK Austin Tindle ANGELICA Heather Walker AQUARIUS Jessica Cavanagh BELNO Wendy Powell BISCA Angela Chase BOB Antimere [...]
The first confirmed details regarding the Madoka Magica PSP game have surfaced from scans of a feature article in Dengeki magazine launched earlier this week in Japan. The game is being produced by Namco-Bandai in collaboration with Nitro+ and SHAFT. Koi-Nya The game will be released on March 15th 2012 for 6790 yen or a limited [...]
The Fuji TV network has announced that a Black Rock Shooter television series will air in the Noitamina timeslot next January. Evidently studio Ordet will animate the production, as the studio produced the 2010 Black Rock Shooter OVA. However, OVA director Yutaka Yamamoto has announced that he is not directing the TV series. This production was easy [...]
The Twitter account for England’s Manga Entertainment has confirmed that the US release of Madhouse’s 2009 feature film Redline will now be released in 2012 rather than the previously slated November 2011 date given to retailers earlier this summer. The film was screened in North America last year at Viz Cinema on the same day [...]
NIS America has announced September 20th as the release date for the second volume of the Katanagatari fantasy period action anime. The initial release will follow NIS America’s Limited Edition release pattern and will be packaged in a collectors box containing both the Blu-Ray and DVD versions of the series with episodes 6-12 on each [...]
In a move guaranteed to earn gushing fanboy praise, Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of the current historical drama anime television series Ikoku Meiro no Croisée. The 12 episode series that premiered on Japanese television on July 3 will premiere on The Anime Network on July 26 under the title “Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth [...]
Anime director and character designer Toyoo Ashida passed away on Saturday, July 23, at the age of 67. Ashida may be most fondly remembered among American otaku as the director of the Fist of the North Star television series and first movie, and director of the 1985 Vampire Hunter D movie. More recently, Ashida directed [...]