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We told you this past Friday that Marvel Anime: Wolverine - The Complete Series is coming to DVD from Sony on July 31st, according to our retailer sources. Those sources include a pre-order listing at Amazon for the title. Since we posted that story ...  

The anime series based upon Marvel's Daywalker, Blade, is on its way to your home via DVD, and we've got all the info you need to know to help rectify all those damned vampire problems that have been bothering you lately! Catch some of Marvel’s most ...  

London Anime Con is an 18+ anime and gaming event on June 30th and July 1st at The Rocket Complex, Holloway Road. Signup for London Anime Con HERE and check out the event timetable for it HERE. Pricing is reduced £15 for two days or £8 for Saturday & £7 ...  

Anime North, Canada's largest anime convention and one of the top ten in attendance in North America turned sweet 16 this past weekend. I used to attend the convention in high school and decided to check out the action for the first time in a decade--from ...  

Isaac is a Competitive Fighting Gamer, Amateur Photographer, Avid Anime Watcher and Anime Figure Collector. He keeps up with new releases for Anime Figures as well previews to see what characters are being sculpted next. Isaac also takes pictures of ...  

If you had been bored by the repeats of "Kekkiashi" and "Durarara" on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim / Toonami anime block on Saturday nights, you were in for a treat on Saturday, May 26, as the network finally debuted a new anime series, "Casshern Sins."  

Officials at New York Comic Con (NYCC) have today announced that the New York Anime Festival (NYAF) will become an integral part of the massive pop culture convention rather than continue to operate as a separate co-located event. NYAF was launched in ...  

Shirokuma Café received an anime adaptation this April directed by Mitsuyuki Masuhara (Chi's Sweet Home, Kobato) at Studio Pierrot. However, Higa had posted in mid-May that a contract regarding her and the adaptation had not yet to be signed, and as such ...  

Blood: The Last Vampire was one the big anime movies of the late-nineties anime boom alongside other films such as Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll and Akira. Since then, it has had a live action remake, a 52-episode anime series (Blood+), three games ...  

When Cartoon Network's Adult Swim recently announced the return of Toonami, a long running programming block dedicated mostly to Japanese animation, anime lovers took notice. With classic titles such as "Bleach," "Casshern Sins," "Fullmetal Alchemist ...  

The Cultural Affairs Agency has begun collecting information on more than 300,000 anime and manga titles in a database that will be opened to the public in fiscal 2014. The project is part of the government's "Cool Japan" strategy to promote the nation.  

Shy characters in anime are sometimes comedic fodder. Sometimes they're fan-favorite moe characters, and sometimes they're completely psychotic. Regardless of how they're used it sometimes seems that every anime has at least one ostensibly shy character..  

ade world, but they have to head to head the defiance of their creators tiresome to get them back. On the unbroken the outstanding unlikeness between anime and manga is a unsophisticated a specific which is that complete is active and one is in the form of ...  

Tan was one of the many people who turned up at the Sixth Cosplay, Comics, Anime and Games Exhibition (C2AGE) held at the Tropicana City Mall here on Friday. Sporting long pink hair and clad in a kimono, she said she spent RM400 (S$163) to put together her outfit.  

Since then, he became an international phenomenon, making appearances in other video games, books, cartoons, and even a 1996 anime movie. Actually, the 'movie' (otherwise known as the Sonic OVA or Original Video Animation) is two episodes of a planned TV ...  

According to the Japanese ISP and portal site BIGLOBE's "Twipple Trend" service, users on Twitter posted messages about Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind to the service a total of 530,000 times during the roughly 150 ...  

Japan's NTT Docomo has revealed its summer lineup of releases including 16 Android 4.0 smartphones, a tablet, a mobile phone for children and a mobile Wi-Fi router. The announcement comes at the same time as plans for the company's Dmarket content to be ...  

Historical anime series premieres with 50-minute special episode on June 4 The official website for June's Kingdom television anime series began streaming the series' first trailer on Saturday. The 38-episode series will premiere on June 4 with a 50-minute ...  

Japan's All Nippon Airlines (ANA) carrier is collaborating with the Evangelion anime franchise to offer promotional goods to passengers until July 20. Passengers who travel on domestic ANA flights between eight designated airports can visit an ANA Festa ...  

De Agostini Japan's 41-issue mag to bundle complete TV anime on DVD The magazine will include episode guide with a discussion of the anime's story, a production notes section with production materials from the anime's staff, and a scene check section with ...  

Lisle, IL - May 14, 2012 - Anime Midwest 2012, one of the largest up-and-coming anime conventions to happen in the Chicagoland region, is happy to announce their first ever Japanese guest, director Shinichi "Nabeshin" Watanabe, will be appearing at the ...  

The Canadian television channel YTV announced on its forums on Wednesday that it will begin airing Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal in June 2. The show will take the time slot of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds in YTV's afternoon anime lineup. Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal premiered last year in Japan.  

Replica Hover Pilder with moveable wings originally created for 1997 live event The super robot anime theme song performer Ichiro Mizuki is currently searching for a life-size replica of the "Hover Pilder" hovercraft from the Mazinger Z anime series that ...  

TOKYO, JAPAN, May 16, 2012 --- NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that beginning in July its dmarket® portal will offer anime and music content on a convenient flat-rate basis for smartphone and tablet users subscribing to DOCOMO's "sp-mode" access service.  

The July issue of Kodansha's Dessert magazine announced the cast and staff for the anime adaptation of Kanae Hazuki's Suki-tte Ii na yo. (Say "I love you".) shōjo manga on Thursday. Voice actress Ai Kayano will star as Mei Tachibana, a girl who has never ...  

There's a crime wave in Japan. The victims are famous and beloved, but helpless and unable to fend for themselves. They're being violated and damaged. It begs the questions: If they are so beloved, why is this happening? This week, another Japanese statue ...  

Top Japanese Animation Service Added to iN DEMAND Portfolio. "We're thrilled to partner with iN DEMAND to transport our programming throughout North America. We have the utmost confidence in their comprehensive technical expertise, bandwidth capacity and ...  

BeastProwl wrote:Wow, its NOT Anime? So this prooves that japan isnt the only country to make good animation! They are just the only ones who are not lazy enough to keep it consistant. Walt Disney, Chuck Jones, and Don Bluth would all like to have a word with you...  

NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that beginning in July its dmarket portal will offer anime and music content on a convenient flat-rate basis for smartphone and tablet users subscribing to DOCOMO's "sp-mode" access service. The new ANIME Store, expected to ...  

Sorry for the lack of new blog entires, but life got busy all of a sudden. I transferred to a different park, and I've been working nine and ten hour days for the last couple of weeks. Joyfully working nine and ten hour days, I might add. I have left ...  

Bloomington, MN - May 26, 2012 - AniMinneapolis is very happy to welcome voice actor Greg Ayres and director Shinichi Watanabe (Nabeshin) to the 2012 Minneapolis anime convention, happening June 29 - July 1, 2012. Guests for AniMinneapolis now include ...  

LA convention to show military spinoff anime on same day as Japanese premiere The original Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse novel is itself a spinoff of the 2006 visual novel software Muv-Luv Alternative from the adult game company Age. This side story ...  

The Japanese sports and entertainment news website Sanspo has revealed that a live-action adaptation of Toei Animation's Ikkyū-san historical comedy anime series is scheduled to air on Japan's Fuji TV station as a 3-part omnibus special during prime time in June.  

The Pokémon Company have released a new promo trailer for Pokémon Black/White 2.  In a first for the series, this is an anime-style trailer with a rather different feel from what you might be used to seeing for the Pokémon games, or even the anime series.  

Anime North was my first convention. I remember being seventeen years old, and going through the doors of a Holiday Inn that had been transformed into a mecca of Japanese pop culture. The initial feeling that washed over me was awe, as though I was ...  

Manga, anime, costumes, tea parties, games and oh so much more make up Idaho's anime convention, and this year's installment is no exception. Anime Oasis Double One is the program's 11th annual iteration, and it all begins Thursday, May 24, with opening ...  

Mobile phone carrier NTT Docomo Inc. and Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co. said Wednesday they will establish a joint venture later this month to distribute anime content to smartphones. The joint venture will begin providing anime to NTT Docomo's smartphone ...  

Tickets for May'n's first solo tour of America (including Los Angeles and San Francisco) will be on sale at the Anime V booth at FanimeCon. In January 2010, May'n performed her first solo Budokan concert, which sold out in only 1 day. In March of the same ...  

The video feature's Nana Mizuki's theme song "Metro Baroque." The anime film is set in Tokyo one year after the Blood-C television series, and Saya returns as the schoolgirl who hunts and feeds on the Furukimono. The film's official website also announced ...  

The official website for Persona 4 The Animation announced on Sunday that the entire anime series will be compiled into one film with some new cuts. Persona 4 The Animation-the Factor of Hope-will be about 90 minutes long and will open in 10 theaters in ...  

The Asahi Shimbun reported on Thursday that the Tokyo District Court has begun the first stage of a trial for three employees from the anime subcontractor company Studio Easter who are suing the company for unpaid overtime. The three employees are seeking ...  

In the English-dubbed version, Colleen Clinkenbeard plays Cassandra Pentaghast. The North American anime distributor FUNimation Entertainment began streaming the official U.S. trailer and an English-dubbed 6-minute clip from the Dragon Age: Dawn of the ...  

The official website for the Busō Chūgakusei Basket Army (Armed Middle School Student Basket Army) project began streaming its third four-minute anime short on Friday. The first anime short appeared in December, and the second began streaming in February.  

Capcom's reveal of the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo 3DS Lost Planet spinoff EX Troopers is still only hours old, but this debut trailer offers more info on what to expect than anything we've read so far. While you get a fair amount of trailer-y cutscene ...  

Detective Conan (AKA Case Closed) is one of Japan's most popular manga and anime. In Tottori Prefecture, the hometown of Detective Conan's creator, Gosho Aoyama, is dotted with little bronze Conan statues for the locals to be proud of and for visitors to ...  

Well it's not anime nor is it complete since it was sadly cancelled after it's third season, but the animated Spawn series is really good. So far I like it more than the original comic, due to the writing and characters being better plus Kieth David's ...  

June started with the Real Clear Politics average of polls pitting Obama against John McCain indicating a closer race (Obama +0.7%) than the margin now separating Obama and Mitt Romney (Obama +2.0% as of this posting). In June of 2008 John McCain did not ...  

An average of the last four polls released from in the last week has Obama with a similar lead of 2.25 points (47.0% to 44.75%).  The Real Clear Politics average shows President Obama’s lead going down by approximately by about half a percentage point ...  

Lisle, IL - May 28, 2012- Anime Midwest is extremely excited to announce that popular anime voice actor Greg Ayres will be attending Anime Midwest 2012 this summer in Chicago! Anime Midwest will be held July 6-8, 2012 at the Wyndham Executive Conference ...  

New York Anime Festival is to become part of New York Comic Con from this year onwards. Organisers ReedPOP's Lance Fensterman explained that the merger was instigated to aid the growth of the convention and "better serve the anime community". He said in a ...  

Film distributor Shochiku began streaming a promotional video for the original video anime Ippatsu Hyaku-Chū!! Devander on Friday. Tatsunoko Production is producing the "gag mecha battle" anime as its 50th anniversary project. The 90-second video includes ...  

In the Golden Triangle, he discovers a vampire plot that threatens to take down the whole world. BLADE ANIME features the voice of Harold Perrineau (TV's "Lost," Matrix trilogy) as Eric Brooks, otherwise known as Blade. The three new featurettes on this ...  

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and conductor Philip Chu welcome Otakon enthusiasts for A Night in Fantasia: The Ultimate Games and Anime Experience on July 28, 2012 at 4 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ...  

Itching to play an anime mecha game, but can’t wait until Zone of the Enders HD Collection?Namco Bandai has Kamogawa Dream Match, which is included in the Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne Game & OVA Hybrid Disc. The PlayStation 3 game lets players fight ...  

LOS ANGELES (May 31, 2012) – Spotlighting the best in Japanese street fashion, Anime Expo (AX), North America's largest anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture celebration, welcomes iconic Lolita model Misako Aoki as an Official Fashion Guest of Honor.  

Bruno Wang, a Dedicated Aficionado of Film and Anime Whose Web Site URL Can Be Found at http://www.brunowangtaiwan.com, Hereby Announces That He Will Be Attending the 2012 London Film & Comic Con in July of 2012 That Is to Be Held at the Olympia Grand Hall ...  

Behold, Feminist Frequency! You may have heard about its popular webseries Tropes vs Women; the name appears on conference indexes due to its keen insights. It examines popular culture by identifying trends in the portrayal of women, looking at different ...  

In years past, video games have been scapegoats. Need something to blame social problems on? Blame video games. This is changing, sure, but that doesn't mean people still don't try to do it. Heck, even suspected criminals do. On April 30, a 38 year-old ...  

It's been a while since we've heard something official concerning the new Tomb Raider video game, which will reboot the successful action/adventure series and will focus on Lara Croft's origins. Yesterday, Darrell Gallagher (Head of Studio at Crystal ...  

It is not just the child we saw in Ra.One that demands the superior villains in video games that he can fight. An Assocham survey conducted across more than 10 Indian cities has found that in the absence of parents at home, over 75 per cent of children ...  

People often complain that there's an overabundance of zombie-based video games, or that zombies are the new bacon, overindulged in to the point of nausea. Judging by pieces like Deviant artist Dantemustdie00's "Sonic Zombies", perhaps we're just injecting ...  

Well it's not anime nor is it complete since it was sadly cancelled after it's third season, but the animated Spawn series is really good. So far I like it more than the original comic, due to the writing and characters being better plus Kieth David's ...  

LOS ANGELES (May 11, 2012) – Anime Expo (AX), North America's largest anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture celebration, will present the U.S. concert debut of the anime-inspired heavy metal band, ANIMETAL USA, when it returns to the Los Angeles ...  

1. The lineup breakdown: 12am Bleach, not a great way to start the toonami 2.0 but its the highest rated adult swim anime currently (I'm fairly sure of this) so it makes some sense (it was a filler episode of filler arc that sputtered in the end ...  

San Francisco, Calif. (May 30, 2012) - Crunchyroll is pleased to announce the beginning of a new era in anime fandom with today's launch of the Crunchyroll Ambassador program. More information can be found at: www.crunchyroll.com/ambassadors The ...  

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Hama-con 3, a three-day mini anime convention, begins Friday at the Von Braun Center's South Hall. Featured guests include Micah Solusod, Todd Haberkorn and Greg Wicker. This year's Hama-con is from noon to midnight Friday ...  

PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi (VIV.PA) posted lower revenue and operating profit in the first quarter, hit by weak video game sales and bruising competition for its SFR French telecom unit after the launch of a new low-cost mobile player. Vivendi's ...  

GameStop shares were trading sharply lower Thursday after the video game retailer posted weak results for its fiscal first quarter ended April 28, and provided disappointing guidance for the second quarter. For Q1, the company reported sales of ...  

which is based on the popular K-On anime and manga series. You can check out the new screens, along with several older shots, in the slideshow to the left of this article. K-On After School Live HD Ver. is a remastered port of the PSP game that ...  

Following the recent announcement by Adult Swim that the Toonami block would be making its return to the Cartoon Network FUNimation Entertainment has revealed two of their anime that will be a part of the lineup. For those of you that may not ...  

Japanese video-sharing site NicoNico Douga is well known for having its own unique net culture and memes. One of the most interesting of these is the “tekaki” style of video. “Tekaki”, literally meaning “hand-drawn”, refers to a type of video ...  

One of the first heavy metal bands inspired by anime will be making their debut at Anime Expo.  The convention, considered to be the largest in the nation, released a press release yesterday with details of the announcement.  According to the ...  

You love Starship Troopers, right? Of course you do. It's the law. And here's something else you'll probably love - the upcoming spin-off anime movie. It's a CGI film called Starship Troppers: Invasion, and it's coming this summer. The man in ...  

The Albany Public Library’s Anime Club meeting from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 17, at the main library, 2450 14th Ave. S.E., will feature an informal Magic tournament for those who bring their Magic cards. Anime members meet on the third ...  

For the few who do read these articles, I apologize for the lack of content as of late.  I've taken on a long term assignment at the high school that I substitute at that will last until the rest of the school year, so because of grading and ...  

Anime and video game publisher NIS America has announced plans to release the anime series “Ghastly Prince Emma Burning Up” in their premium edition packaging this September. The off-the-wall series, which looks to be much different than the ...  

October event to still have anime guests, exhibitors, panels; Masquerade to turn into daily contests The organizers of New York Comic Con (NYCC) announced on Tuesday that the New York Anime Festival (NYAF) will be folded into NYCC, beginning ...  

It's a good week for serious manga and anime fans, as Yen Press debuts two new series, including one fan favorite, and Kodansha Comics brings back a classic. Let's start with Yen, which launches two new series this week with vol. 1 of Puella ...  

It's a good week for serious manga and anime fans, as Yen Press debuts two new series, including one fan favorite, and Kodansha Comics brings back a classic. Let's start with Yen, which launches two new series this week with vol. 1 of Puella ...  

What do you give the cyberpunk who has everything? How about a low-riding, anime-inspired Japanese electric motorbike/scooter? Designed by Kota Nezu’s Znug Design and fabricated and manufactured by Autostaff Suehiro, a company well known in ...  

Toonami was a cartoon and anime block that was shown on both cartoon network and adult swim. This ran from March 17, 1997 to September 20th, 2008; know widely for showing American and Japanese anime. Toonami went on the air in 1997 and was ...  

LOS ANGELES (May 17, 2012) – Anime Expo (AX), North America's largest anime, manga and Japanese pop culture celebration, will feature a major exhibition by the Gallery of Fantastic Art (GoFa) when it returns to the Los Angeles Convention ...  

Anime-zing! is an anime convention coming up in just two weeks in Davenport, Iowa, and fans from all across Iowa are going to be driving to Davenport for the weekend to spend it with stars from the Power Rangers, Anime, TV, Sci-Fi, and more.  

Greek politics, Chinese data, and a large US bank trading loss ... creating volatility in the S which closed down 0.3%. Commodities were harder hit (CRB index -1.0%, copper -1.2%, oil -1.0%). US 10yr treasury bond yields closed 3bp lower ...  

This Tuesday, May 15th, FUNimation Entertainment will release the sci-fi comedy harem series “Cat Planet Cuties” and in anticipation of its release the publisher has given us the opportunity to check the series out a little early. “Cat ...  

This week, on May 29th 2012, FUNimation Entertainment will release “Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker”, a full-length feature based in the world of BioWare’s fantasy action-RPG series, “Dragon Age”. For those of you that aren’t familiar ...  

Earlier this month, May 8th 2012, anime and video game publisher NIS America released the science fiction/occult/comedy, “Occult Academy”, and we took the opportunity to review this unique series. “Occult Academy” revolves around two ...  

The Place Promised in Our Early Days is a science fiction film directed by Makoto Shinkai. In a parallel Earth, Japan is divided into two nations after World War II. The Japanese have Hokkaido, now known as Ezo and the United States ...  

Anime publisher Sentai Filmworks today announced that they have acquired the science fiction and military anime series “Cluster Edge” for release in North America. “Cluster Edge” is a 25 episode and 3 OVA series produced by the well ...  

I know E3 is right around the corner and I’ll get to that in a few days or so but for now, I just want to introduce you guys (if you don’t already know) to an anime I started watching last weekend. It’s called “Mysterious Girlfriend X”.  

Around six foot tall and bulky, he was sporting a blue maid costume inspired by the central character in “Magical Girl Madoka of the Magus,” his favorite Japanese anime series. “I know there are many negative conceptions of cosplay ...  

Furthermore, the high budget deficit of between 9.0% to 10.0% (ex one off telecoms revenues), with ... Government has to reduce spending – that’s the bottom line – but politics and a bumbling administration…….The Indian Rupee fell ...  

5 Centimeters per Second is a romantic drama directed by Makoto Shinkai. Takaki and Akari are a young couple who have problems expressing their true feelings to each other. Akari transfers to a new school in the Tochigi prefecture.  

When comparing the polling data and political results, some sort of “Wilder effect ... John Boehner, Mike Turner, and Steve Austria have each scored 0% in recent years, dating back to the 109th Congress for Boehner and Turner.