Press Releases - May 2009
- Lolita Fashion Day at Kinokuniya (21:42)
- ZonaCon Announces Two New Guests and Two New Events (20:56)
- Read/Watch/Listen: Otaku Play (17:55)
- Funimation Entertainment, Toei Animation, Shueisha and Fuji Television Announce Online Simulcast of One Piece (17:25)
- Spike Spencer to Voice the Character of Shinji in EVA 1.0 (16:25)
- Anime Expo® 2009 Provides Additional Discounts for Hotels (15:09)
- E3 2009: Atlus Unveils Trauma Team™ for Wii™ (06:04)
- More Than 50 Organisations to Enter Films for Third Annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (00:00)
- Right Stuf's Nozomi Entertainment Launches Series Site for Gakuen Alice at gakuenalice.rightstuf.com (17:54)
- Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past Arrives Today (18:32)
- Animation Studio Titmouse, Inc. Announces It Has Added Two New Execs (14:27)
- Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" Screening at Loew's Jersey in Jersey City, NJ on June 5 (08:49)
- Tezuka in English Hosts Exclusive Manga Preview of DMP's Swallowing the Earth (18:18)
- Anime Expo® 2009 Announces Legendary Japanese Voice Actor as an Official Guest of Honor (15:03)
- Aniplex Launches Official Kannagi Website (22:10)
- Kakkoi Con to Change Name (20:09)
- Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. Sets the “Gold” Standard with the Acclaimed Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Gold Series 2009 (17:09)
- NYICFF: Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service: Rare Miyazaki Theatrical Screenings, Presented in Glorious 35mm (16:31)
- Funimation Entertainment Introduces Fruits Basket Virtual Goods (12:27)
- Bespa Kumamero New Release "Plastic Confusion" plus Anime Boston Recap (02:52)
- Health Care for the Manga Generation (12:08)
- CBLDF's Book Expo Welcome Party (00:44)
- Big Tent Entertainment and GoAnimate.com Partner to Launch Domo Animate (12:23)
- Anime Expo® Announces Gurren Lagann Director and Character Designer as 2009 Guests of Honor (15:18)
- Viz Media Unleashes the Wildest, Shockingly Funny Manga for the Not So Faint of Heart, Detroit Metal City (21:28)
- Yuki Kajiura's New Project, Kalafina Making a Great Debut in the U.S. (20:22)
- How To Cosplay Series (14:08)
- Funimation Entertainment Announces Directors and Cast for Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (19:10)
- Right Stuf's Anime Today Gears Up for Anime Expo 2009 with Convention Chair Liyin Liang (19:03)
- Localized Japanese Indie Games Now Available for Digital Download on Direct2Drive (17:36)
- Anime Expo® 2009 Welcomes Cartoon Network (14:54)
- J-Rock Band Vamps USA Tour (12:28)
- Bang Zoom! to Offer Dubbing Workshop at Otakon® (09:38)
- Voice Actor/Producer Tony Oliver to Appear at Otakon® (09:36)
- Kalafina Has Finally Arrived to Boston (00:32)
- LM.C Contest for Fans at A-Kon, Plus New Single Punky Heart and Comment Video (19:19)
- MapleStory Video Contest Winners Announced (17:32)
- Steal Princess™ for Nintendo DS™ Now Available at Select Retailers; Every Copy Includes Bonus Mini-Poster (13:35)
- Kurokami The Animation Now Available as Streaming Video (14:08)
- Comix Like You've Never Seen: IKKI is here (17:11)
- Morning Musume's “Shouganai Yumeoibito” Hits Number One on Oricon Weekly Singles Chart (02:21)
- Kurokami the Animation Near-Simultaneous Streaming on Crunchyroll (00:09)
- CBLDF Disappointed by Guilty Plea in Handley Manga Case (01:31)
- Atlus to Bring Groundbreaking Action Rpg Experience to North America with Demon's Souls™ for PlayStation®3 Computer Entertainment System (15:03)
- Anime Expo® Blasts Off with Additional Power Rangers Talents (15:47)
- 5 Centimeters per Second and Voices of a Distant Star to Be Screened at Japan Information and Culture Center (15:08)
- 2009 Fan Expo Canada (13:43)
- Atlus Opens Valves, Lets Out Official Box Art, First Screenshots from North American Release of Steambot Chronicles™ Battle Tournament for PSP® (Playstation®Portable) System (12:21)
- Shoujo Art Studio (10:48)
- New York Asian Film Festival (June 19 – July 5) Announces Opening Night, Closing Night and Centerpiece Presentation Films (10:29)
- World Cyber Games USA National Final to Be Held at New York Anime Festival (08:51)
- Funimation Entertainment Highlights and Events at Anime Boston -- Including Evangelion Cast Announcement (06:51)
- Iowa Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing Obscene Visual Representations of the Sexual Abuse of Children (00:00)
- Anime Expo® Breaks Out with 2009 Convention Commercial (16:40)
- Atlus Online Tinkers with Hands-On Demos of Upcoming Steam Punk MMORPG at E3 2009 (11:28)
- Crunchyroll and Namco Cybertainment Inc. Go Crane Crazy with Naruto Shippuden (11:13)
- GCA Games Convention Asia Goes Cosplay (11:15)
- Contest - Happy Yaoi Yum Yum (04:56)
- BoA - Korean Pop Comes to America (17:54)
- Viz Media Releases Historical Non-Fiction Book - The Century of the Black Ships (19:35)
- Produced by Mana (ex-MALICE MIEZER), Cello Vocalist Kanon Wakeshima Will Make Her U.S. Debut at Otakon (18:46)
- Crunchyroll Streams Brand New Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Korean Dramas: Modern Housewives and My Life's Golden Age (15:19)
- Anime Expo® Announces Famed Gundam 00 and Fullmetal Alchemist Director, Seiji Mizushima, as an Official 2009 Guest of Honor (15:08)
- Film Independent Announces Additional Film Selections & Programming for 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival: Walt Disney Pictures' Ponyo Selected as Closing Night Film – (12:34)
- Make Sure to Catch Big Man Japan This Weekend (16:01)
- Alteil.com Card Set 4: Beasts on Sacred Ground is Here (14:07)
- The Raiho Has Landed; SMT: Devil Summoner®2 In Stores Now (13:11)
- Morning Musume。 x MySpace Worldwide OPV (Original Promotion Video) Contest (13:09)
- Atlanime 7th Anniversary (06:19)
- The Licensing Machine (Panini Group) Will Premiere in Europe the New Fullmetal Alchemist Series on YouTube (05:21)
- New York Comic Con Announces Happy Hour (15:40)
- FanimeCon 2009 Announces Voice Actors and Motion Capture Experts of Albert Wesker, Jill Valentine, & Chris Redfield as Guests of Honor (16:46)
- Vamps Live 2009 U.S.A. — Confirmed (13:45)
- Barbican Film - Japanimation: Tetsujin 28 - 30 June (11:43)
- Viz Media's Release of New Manga – Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit Will Bring about Questions of Justice, Society and the Best Way to Really Appreciate Life (21:32)
- Anime Expo® Announces Studio Orphee Head and Famed Writer, Yosuke Kuroda, as an Official 2009 Guest of Honor (14:58)
- FUNimation Entertainment, Toei Animation, Shueisha and Fuji Television Announce Online Simulcast of One Piece (13:11)
- FanimeCon 2009 Announces Halko Momoi (Musician, Songwriter, & Seiyū) as a Guest of Honor (05:23)
- Critical Mass Video Announces August 25 Release of Anime 18's Demon Warrior Koji DVD (18:29)
- Right Stuf's Nozomi Entertainment Announces the His and Her Circumstances DVD Collection for August 25, 2009 (18:41)
- Critical Mass Video Announces August 25 Release of Anime 18's Black Widow DVD (18:30)
- Junemanga.com is Back and Revamped...and Juné Books Are Too (19:00)
- Critical Mass Video Announces August 25 Release of HypnoLove: A Boy's Toy DVD (18:32)
- Kalafina Has Just Released Their U.S. Debut Album This Week (16:55)
- Colossalcon Announces Final Guests (01:02)
- Combat Ensues with Konami Digital Entertainment Inc.'s Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Trading Card Game Raging Battle Booster Set (19:37)
- Alteil Card Dueling Game Announces Card Set 4 and Rarity up Event (19:01)
- NY Anime Festival Presents Super Para Natural Manga Day at NYC's Kinokuniya Bookstore (18:17)
- Crunchyroll to Launch The Beast to Die, Early Spring Story, Girl of Time, Kekkon Annai Mystery, Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, Story of the Detective and Tragedy of W Today for Kadokawa Tuesdays (14:54)
- The Chicken Returns! Anime Expo® 2009 Welcomes Robot Chicken (14:46)
- eigoMANGA Announces Worldwide Subscription Distribution via EBSCO (11:31)
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete (00:00)
- Zenkaikon Announces Johnny Yong Bosch, Eyeshine, Hi5, Ikuzo! Studios (23:31)
- eManga.com Revamp and New Features (19:33)
- Yamato USA Announces Fantasy Figure Gallery: The Sacrifice, Inspired by the Work of Dorian Cleavenger (15:21)
- Crunchyroll Streams Brand New Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Korean Dramas: 90 Days Time to Love, Merry Mary, My Life's Golden Age and Yi-San (14:58)
- Henry VIII by William Shakespeare (11:27)
- Cellist/Vocalist Kanon Wakeshima to Make US Debut at Otakon© (21:00)
- Love And Peace: Anime Expo® Announces Trigun Anime and Manga Creator Yasuhiro Nightow and Trigun Movie Director Satoshi Nishimura as Official 2009 Guests of Honor (14:56)
- Douglas Glen Resigns as Imagi International Holdings CEO (00:00)
- Funimation Channel Continues Expansion: World's Best Anime Series Now Found On Comcast Cable Nationwide (00:00)
- Tsubasacon Announces Industry and Musical Guests for 2009 (11:50)
- Big Man Japan Opens in LA and NY Next Friday, May 15th (20:52)
- Right Stuf's Anime Today Talks Manga Publishing with Erica Friedman of ALC Publishing (16:20)
- Knights in the Nightmare™: Tome of Lost Souls™ (14:52)
- Kotobukiya Announces San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive: Black Widow Marvel x Bishoujo (05:59)
- Pwanda! Available to Buy (14:38)
- Michael Mcconnohie and Melodee M. Spevack to Appear at AnimeIowa and Nan Desu Kan (14:08)
- Sakura Wars Announced for North America at Last (23:57)
- Intermixi's 1st Annual "Yellow Fever Awards" Begins (01:58)
- Irasshaimase! Anime Expo® 2009 Announces Animaid Café to Debut at This Year's Convention (18:27)
- London MCM Expo World Record Attempt: Your Chance to Be Part of Gaming History (16:07)
- Viz Pictures Presents the First Adventure of the J-Pop Center Project with the Grand Opening of New People in San Francisco This Summer (16:09)
- The UK's Biggest Entertainment Event is Back (16:07)
- JapanFiles and Nitroplus Begin Partnership with Soundtracks for "Phantom of Inferno" + 15 More! (12:19)
- Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent Kicks Off Testing with “Golden Ticket” Early Access Promotion (09:36)
- Kadokawa Tuesdays on Crunchyroll to Launch Mail, Onmyoji and Kadokawa Mystery & Horror Tales (16:13)
- FUNimation Entertainment Partners with Anime News Network to Stream Select Series (12:06)
- Anime Expo® Announces Kari Wahlgren as an Official 2009 American Guest of Honor (16:11)
- Viz Pictures to Release the Dark Romantic Comedy Happily Ever After on DVD (19:06)
- Alteil.com Announces Free Cinco De Mayo Avatar Event and Adds Pay-By-Cash and Ultimate Gamercard (18:43)
- Super Robot Taisen® OG Saga: Endless Frontier™ for Nintendo DS™ Bounces into Select Retailers (17:55)
- Sentai Filmworks Releases Appleseed (17:24)
- Crunchyroll Streams Brand New Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Korean Dramas: 2 Outs in the 9th Inning, Over the Rainbow, Prince Hours and Yi-San (16:08)
- Now Shipping from Yamato USA - Fantasy Figure Gallery: Medusa's Gaze Inspired by the Work of Luis Royo (15:28)
- Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation Announces Finalists for the 2009 SPJA Industry Awards (15:12)
- Viz Media Delights Naruto Fans with the New Shonen Jump Naruto Shippuden Collector (12:42)
- Anime! to Pop in Academy Galleries (11:43)
- Nearly 900 Duelists Converge on the SHONEN JUMP Championship in Anaheim - Marks the Second Largest Event Ever (22:45)
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 to Stream on Crunchyroll (15:00)
- Hulu Adds Full Episodes of Full Metal Alchemist 2 Brotherhood to Fast Growing Anime Library (13:59)
- Atlus.com: "I Live... Again!" (05:23)
- Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group Acquires Domestic Media Rights for Blood: The Last Vampire (12:19)
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The Spring 2016 Anime Preview Guide
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The Spring 2016 Anime Preview Guide has begun! Check back daily for fresh takes on all of this season's hottest new shows.
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Childhood friends Akeno Misaki and Moeka China enroll in a marine high school in Yokosuka in order to become "Blue Mermaids," a new female force established to protect the remaining coastal towns after many countries have sank into the sea.
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Music shapes and defines the life of Kosei Arima in this acclaimed drama, out on bluray now from Aniplex of America. Theron Martin dives in.
― This release from Aniplex of America covers the first 11 episodes of the adaptation of Naoshi Arakawa's award-winning manga, which constitutes the first of the series' two seasons. Ostensibly it is a series about classical music, and indeed, that is featured r...
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