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All 12 volumes of Karuho Shiina’s Kimi ni Todoke romantic comedy manga ranked on Oricon’s chart of the top 100 manga books for the September 20-26 week in Japan. The sales of the manga were boosted this past week by the September 24 opening of the live-action film adaptation starring Mikako Tabe and Haruma Miura. [...]
Agent Aika is one of those shows that makes this reviewer despair for the hope of anime. Now don’t misunderstand me–if you read reviews of Agent Aika on a variety of sites, you will find some who love this series of 7 OVAs following the adventures of one Aika and her …
Samuel L. Jackson is the definition of cool. Or is he? With Pulp Fiction over a decade gone, he still has plenty of mojo working for him, but not all of his decisions have been great. Snakes on a Plane, the internet phenomenon and box-office mediocrity, made it look like Jackson might have jumped the [...]
Coming as less surprise to otaku than to series voice actress Asami Sanada (who played teacher Sawako Yamanaka), the homepage for the K-On anime franchise has confirmed the development of a feature film now that the 26 episode second TV series has just ended. Considering the tremendous popularity of the anime franchise, …
The homepage for next month’s Bakuman anime television series has added a short streaming teaser. The drama about two high school boys who aspire to become a professional manga creator team is based on a manga by Death Note creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The series will premiere on October …
The homepage for next month’s Arakawa Under the Bridge *2 television series has added a streaming teaser. The series is a sequel to this past spring’s first TV anime adaptation of Hikaru Nakamura’s bizarre gag manga. The new series will premiere on October 4. Source Animenation
The current, highly rated Japanese anime television series Kaidan Restaurant will get its first theatrical film this August. Masayuki Ochiai (Parasite Eve) will direct the film, which will be a combination of anime and live action. Source:animenation.net
The official Japanese homepage for the Pocket Monster movie franchise now hosts a Flash trailer for this summer’s 13th Pokemon theatrical film, along with two teaser trailers. Pocket Monster Diamond & Pearl: Genei no Hasha Zoroark (The Phantom Champion Zoroark) will hit Japanese theaters on July 10. Source:animenation.net
The homepage for the Trigun: Badlands Rumble motion picture is now streaming a new trailer. The movie will shoot into Japanese theaters on April 24. I’ve been wary of the previously released trailers, but there’s something about the composition and pacing of this trailer that feels more substantial and less like it’s …
Tokyopop has announced that the entire 51 episode “Rave Master” (Groove Adventure Rave) anime television series is now available as an English dubbed DVD-on-demand collection retailing at $39.99 from Amazon’s CreateSpace DVD-R retail service. Tokyopop released three DVD volumes of the 2001 television series in 2003. Source:animenation.net