The New York Anime Festival 2008 took place this past weekend. It was the second annual festival in NYC, and anime fans were largely excited to find out what will be coming up in 2009.
For starters, Huang Zin Jhou and Hiromu Arakawa will have Hero Tales out by October of 2009. Arakawa is the genius [...]
You see, you just can’t keep a good universe-saving, interlocking, lion themed giant flying robot with badass laser-powered sword down.
After being dumped by Fox-based film production outfit New Regency Pictures, the live- action adaptation of the beloved anime series was recently picked up by Relativity Media.
The new outfit will rely on a smaller budget, but [...]
Hiroyuki Kageyama, an unemployed 20 year old man from Kakogawa City in Japan, was arrested for making online threats against Comic Market (also known as Comiket) doujinshi convention.
Kageyama posted the threat on popular online message board 2channel, stating that he was going to toss a grenade at the convetion site.
In repsonse to the threat, the [...]
Anime expert Helen McCarthy has written a new book about, as stated in the title, 500 essential anime movies. Her well-researched articles are aside to be an enjoyable read, but will stand up to academic uses as well.
The book’s out now in the UK and will be out in the US in a few weeks. [...]
Well, here are the latest top ten anime TV series rankings, care of the good people from animebb.org:
10. Shugo Chara!
9. Oha Colosseum
8. Blue Dragon Tenkai no Shichiryu
7. Soreike! Anpanman
6. Keroro Gunso
5. Naruto Shippu-den
4. Pokemon Diamond
3. Doraemon
2. Crayon Shin-chan
1. Death Note
If you’re around London or if you know any anime or manga fans from around that area, tell them to check out the exhibitions at St. John’s Wood Library and the Westminster Reference Library. There will be talks, traditional Japanese music and dance, a little bit of origami, and a whole lot of anima [...]
It’s no secret that Disney has been heavily influenced by Japanese animation and vice versa. So it’s utterly fascinating to see the the results of a more obvious kind of mutual influence: the joint animation project.
Case in point: RoboDz, a computer-animated story of three robots defending the Earth from alien invasion (apparently joint projects do [...]
A demo version of the upcoming Naruto themed fighting game for the Sony Playstation 3 is out and available for download at the Playstation Network.
Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm has been scheduled for release this coming October.
You can access the demo by logging into the Playstation Network and looking under “All games” and then “Fighting”.
We already know Keanu Reeves is no stranger to playing comic book heroes on the movie screen but what about manga? Specifically, is there any truth to the rumor going around that Keanu is slated to play the intergalactic bounty hunter known as Spike in the live-action adaptation of the wildly popular manga and anime [...]
Anime coverage by “serious” news outlets is always serious news to me. So I’m tickled pink to find out that the illustrious Wall Street Journal featured little Washinomiya Shrine, whose attandance was pumped up by a popular manga and anime series that uses it for a setting.
The anime, titled Lucky Star, tells the story of [...]