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Manga creator Arina Tanemura is releasing eight volumes between now and February 17: January 13: Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura volume 9 Arina no Tane essay manga (pictured right) January 18: Full Moon O Sagashite bunko (smaller paperback) reissue volumes 1 & 2 February 15: Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura volume 10 Fudanjuku Monogatari February 17: Full Moon [...]
An advertisement confirmed that Inohead Gargoyle, Tohru Fujisawa‘s manga that will launch in this year’s seventh issue of Kodansha‘s Young Magazine on January 16, is a Great Teacher Onizuka spinoff manga. The story will center on the character Toshiyuki Saejima, a corrupt police officer and Onizuka’s friend, who appeared in the GTO: The Early Years prequel manga. Fujisawa revealed in December that he would create a [...]
The official website for Purple Cow Studio Japan‘s Sakasama no Patema(Patema Inverted) revealed details about the anime film’s plot and main character on Tuesday. Time of Eve creator Yasuhiro Yoshiura is writingand directing the anime film for release throughout Japan this year. The story will take place in an underground world where tunnels extend everywhere. Even though they live in dark and confined spaces, [...]
This year’s seventh issue of Shogakukan‘s Big Comic Spiritsmagazine is announcing on Monday that Motoro Mase is launching the 20th and final arc of his Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit manga in the next issue on January 23. The arc is titled “Moboroshi no Kuni” (The Long-Lost Country.). Ikigami takes place in Japan after the establishment of a policy that assigns an “Ikigami” [...]
Bandai Namco Games announced on Thursday that it has shipped 10 million Naruto video games worldwide since the game series debuted in 2003. The company has shipped 1.9 million games in Japan and Asia, 4.3 million games in North America, and 3.8 million games in Europe. Between the first game, Naruto: Konoha Ninpōchō, which was released in 2003 for the [...]
Animate USA announced on Thursday that it is releasing Youka Nitta‘s Platinum Pasta and You Higashino‘s Theorem of Desire on web retailer Amazon’s Kindle store. The company will also release Volume 2 (Part 4) of Naduki Koujima‘s Selfish Love manga, which it began distributing for the Kindle e-reader last May. Platinum Pasta centers on a man named Mamiya who opened an Italian restaurant one year ago. He gets ingredients [...]
The Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Production Committee announced on Thursday that Akira Miyagawa (Shin Mazinger Shōgeki! Z-Hen, Emily of New Moon) will compose the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 television and filmanime project. His father Hiroshi Miyagawa composed music for the original 1974 Space Battleship Yamato anime series and its related film and television sequels. The younger Miyagawa is re-scoring his father’s work as well as composing new music. [...]
Yammie, the creator of the popular series of “Yappo Island” children’s picture books, will write & direct a stop-motion animation series titled Fushigi no Yappo Shima ~ Pukipuki to Poi (Mysterious Yappo Island ~ Pukipuki & Poi) for broadcast on the NHK Educational network from Monday through Friday from January 9 until February 10. The series of [...]
NIS America has announced a domestic DVD release of the 2010 historical drama anime series House of Five Leaves (Sairaya Goyo). The 12 episode adaptation of Natsume Ono’s manga will be released in a double disc DVD set with hardcover illustration book on March 6, 2012. Funimation simulcast when it aired on the Fuji TV network’s Noitamina [...]
The current issue of COMPTIQ magazine reports that SCA-ji and Kira Inugami’s school comedy manga series Ebiten: Koritsu Ebisugawa Koko Tenmon-Bu is getting an anime adaptation. The ongoing manga that premiered in 2008 revolves around a high school boy who wanted to join his school’s astronomy club but mistakenly joined the school’s club for fujoshi (a club of female [...]