Naruto, Bleach, Death Note anime now available on iTunes

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

The good folks at Viz Media have seen fit to finally make some money off the countless multitudes of anime downloaders on iTunes, and have made Naruto, Bleach and Death Note available on Apple’s iTunes service.
English dubbed versions of the first 25 uncut eps of Naruto, the first 41 Bleach episodes, and the complete run [...]

Shonen Jump fifth anniversary releases

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

In no particular order:
- There’s the Shonen Jump Fifth Anniversary Collector’s Edition, chock full of manga, articles, essays, interviews with top Shonen Jump mangaka like Kishimoto, Toriyama, Kubo and Oda, and even a free Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card.
- There will also be a bunch of Naruto novelettes (with, like word-type text in them!) , with [...]

Death Note mangaka in Paris expo

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Death Note creator Takeshi Obata will be making an appearance at the Japan Expo Convention in Paris. The Japan Expo Convention (and you can expect that Japanese Anime and Manga-related stuff will be on prominent display) will run from July 3 to July 6. The exact date of Mr. Obata’s appearance has not yet been [...]

Death Note reviewed on NPR

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

John Powers, a “critic-at-large” for US radio network NPR’s Fresh Air program, recently reviewed the massively popular Death Note anime series for the show. Powers had a lot of good things to say about the series, including that nearly all the episodes were “riveting”. You can listen to an audio clip of the review [...]