Nikkei’s IT Plus news site reports on sunday that Bandai Visual will release Freedom and other anime titles on Blu-ray Disc simultaneously throughout the world this fall. The same packaged disc with subtitles in Japanese, English, French, and other languages will be sold in the different countries for about the same price. Bandai Visual USA h...

A review by Douglas of the 2007 Anime film “Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone”. Video Review - Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone (You need Quicktime to play this. If you don’t, download HERE) [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ] ...

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The May 9 issue (released on April 25) of Weekly Famitsu magazine has announced that Sega is launching a World Destruction role-playing game for the Nintendo DS console, and the game developer is planning to start manga and anime spinoffs in July. The game staff features several staffers of the acclaimed Xenogears title, including scenario writer M...

At its Graphic Novel Conference at New York Comic Con last Thursday, the ICv2 retail news source announced  its findings for the American retail graphic novel market in 2007. While the overall graphic novel market and the manga segment both grew in 2007, manga grew at a slower rate than in years past. The 2007 sales stood at US$210 million, which ...

Marty Friedman, a former guitarist for the Megadeth heavy metal rock band, revealed on his website that he will appear in the live-action film adaptation of Kiminon Wakasugi’s Detroit Metal CIty comedy manga. Friedman and his frequent drumming collaborator Jeremy Colson performed with Kiss lead singer Gene Simmons for a scene in the movie. K...

A new location called Manga Cafe Mika is scheduled to open in San Francisco Japantown in California on April 26. It advertises a selection of over “20,000 Japanese comic books.” While it is not a cafe, a different restaurant called On the Bridge has been offering a smaller selection of manga magazines and books in the same neighborhood...

This year’s fifth issue of Kodanshi’s Magazine Special announced that Kindaichi Case Files artist Fumiya Sato will launch a new Tetsujin Dakkan Sakusen Manga featuring Tetsujin 28 (or Gigantor in English) in the next issue (on sale in May). The first Tetsujin Dakkan Sakusen (The Tetsujin Recovery Operation) manga, pictured at right, ran...

The North American distributor Viz Media has revealed at its New York Comic Con 2008 panel on Saturday that it is planning to release the Hunter X Hunter anime in season box sets. The first box is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2008, with more box sets to follow every two months. The company also confirmed that Blue Dragon will be released on ...

This year’s 21st issue (released on April 21) of Shueishi’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine has announced that a “Jump Super Anime Tour” will visit 10 Japanese cities this fall with new anime specials for Dragon Ball and One Piece. The tour is the eighth project that celebrates the 40th anniversary of the magazine. The magazine ...