“On the 8th day, God created manga” From anime news network: Tyndale House Publishers announced that it is launching a yearly series of Christian manga drawn by Japanese artists in September, as well as a Manga Bible with three manga sections in November. Amazon lists Hidenori Kumai as the author, with Kozumi Shinozawa and Atsuko [...]
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From the Zel on the MAL news team Odex’s court order forcing Pacific Internet to give names of people who have downloaded anime illegally has failed. Judge Ernest Lau ruled that Judge Ernest Lau said: Only copyright owners – that is, the studios that made the anime – or an ‘exclusive licensee’ for the anime [...]
From ICv2 August 24, 2007 ICv2 has learned that ADV will take over sales, marketing, and distribution functions for all Geneon titles effective October 1st. Geneon will continue to license and produce anime content for the North American market; The extensive Geneon catalogue will continue to be available through ADV, making a formidable combined title [...]
From Anime News Service: 8-3-07 (7:53AM EDT)—- Shinreigari / Ghost Hound Broadcast Debut In October Masamune Shirow and Production I.G.’s first collaboration since 1994′s Ghost In The Shell: The Shinreigari / Ghost Hound TV anime has been given a Thursday, October 18th, 23:30 premiere on WOWOW.
Taken from Anime News Network – Gunslinger Girl’s Second Season Officially Announced The October issue (on sale August 21) of Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh has officially announced that a second season of the Gunslinger Girl anime series will be produced. The Japanese magazine runs Yu Aida’s original manga about cybernetically enhanced girl assassins that inspired [...]
If you already knew about this and are screaming bloody murder, you’re not the only one. But it seems like from the Newtype magazine Japan, that Madhouse will come up with an ending to Claymore. From what I’ve read on the “Claymore Fans” Live Journal site, I don’t know if this will turn into a [...]
That’s right, according to “”Darkanger”, a member of the MAL news team, you can now buy an expensive T-shirt created by the team effort of Bandai and Mastermind. This T-shirt features a gundam hand stitched with Swarovski crystals. The cost of the shirt is 200,000 Â¥ or about $1,670, or about £830. A less expensive [...]
Botticelli probably didn’t have Seamus in mind when he was thinking of Venus. “Seamus Venus,” by Misha; $400. This isn’t exactly anime related, but it does have something to do–a lot to do–with another part of Japanese pop culture, a culture that most of you reading this have probably experienced if you’re my age or [...]
I think this parody of Death Note pretty much is a signal that this show has made it into the mainstream of Japanese pop culture, not just the otaku niche. (The same applies to any musician who gets parodied by Weird Al.) Not to mention that it’s awfully funny…in a Super Size way, if you [...]
More images available by this artist here. This is really impressive, though if anything these are the Charlie Brown characters as adolescents rather than preteen kids. And here’s the Scooby gang, shoujofied! This, I think, works really well: The artist’s site is here. He’s only 17!
I don’t know if this is news to anyone, but according to Wikipedia, Bee Train’s coming out with what KÅichi Mashimo of Bee Train calls, the third installment of the “girls with guns trilogy”. The name of this show is going to be called El Cazador de la Bruja, and it will begin airing in [...]
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