Press Releases - May 2009
- Lolita Fashion Day at Kinokuniya ()
- ZonaCon Announces Two New Guests and Two New Events ()
- Read/Watch/Listen: Otaku Play ()
- Funimation Entertainment, Toei Animation, Shueisha and Fuji Television Announce Online Simulcast of One Piece ()
- Spike Spencer to Voice the Character of Shinji in EVA 1.0 ()
- Anime Expo® 2009 Provides Additional Discounts for Hotels ()
- E3 2009: Atlus Unveils Trauma Team™ for Wii™ ()
- More Than 50 Organisations to Enter Films for Third Annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards ()
- Anime Expo® 2009 Announces Legendary Japanese Voice Actor as an Official Guest of Honor ()
- Right Stuf's Nozomi Entertainment Launches Series Site for Gakuen Alice at gakuenalice.rightstuf.com ()
- Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past Arrives Today ()
- Animation Studio Titmouse, Inc. Announces It Has Added Two New Execs ()
- Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" Screening at Loew's Jersey in Jersey City, NJ on June 5 ()
- Tezuka in English Hosts Exclusive Manga Preview of DMP's Swallowing the Earth ()
- Aniplex Launches Official Kannagi Website ()
- Kakkoi Con to Change Name ()
- Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. Sets the “Gold” Standard with the Acclaimed Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Gold Series 2009 ()
- NYICFF: Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service: Rare Miyazaki Theatrical Screenings, Presented in Glorious 35mm ()
- Funimation Entertainment Introduces Fruits Basket Virtual Goods ()
- Bespa Kumamero New Release "Plastic Confusion" plus Anime Boston Recap ()
- Viz Media Unleashes the Wildest, Shockingly Funny Manga for the Not So Faint of Heart, Detroit Metal City ()
- Yuki Kajiura's New Project, Kalafina Making a Great Debut in the U.S. ()
- How To Cosplay Series ()
- Health Care for the Manga Generation ()
- CBLDF's Book Expo Welcome Party ()
- Big Tent Entertainment and GoAnimate.com Partner to Launch Domo Animate ()
- Anime Expo® Announces Gurren Lagann Director and Character Designer as 2009 Guests of Honor ()
- Funimation Entertainment Announces Directors and Cast for Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone ()
- Right Stuf's Anime Today Gears Up for Anime Expo 2009 with Convention Chair Liyin Liang ()
- Localized Japanese Indie Games Now Available for Digital Download on Direct2Drive ()
- Anime Expo® 2009 Welcomes Cartoon Network ()
- J-Rock Band Vamps USA Tour ()
- Bang Zoom! to Offer Dubbing Workshop at Otakon® ()
- Voice Actor/Producer Tony Oliver to Appear at Otakon® ()
- Kalafina Has Finally Arrived to Boston ()
- LM.C Contest for Fans at A-Kon, Plus New Single Punky Heart and Comment Video ()
- CBLDF Disappointed by Guilty Plea in Handley Manga Case ()
- MapleStory Video Contest Winners Announced ()
- Steal Princess™ for Nintendo DS™ Now Available at Select Retailers; Every Copy Includes Bonus Mini-Poster ()
- Kurokami The Animation Now Available as Streaming Video ()
- Comix Like You've Never Seen: IKKI is here ()
- Morning Musume's “Shouganai Yumeoibito” Hits Number One on Oricon Weekly Singles Chart ()
- Kurokami the Animation Near-Simultaneous Streaming on Crunchyroll ()
- Funimation Entertainment Highlights and Events at Anime Boston -- Including Evangelion Cast Announcement ()
- Iowa Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing Obscene Visual Representations of the Sexual Abuse of Children ()
- Atlus to Bring Groundbreaking Action Rpg Experience to North America with Demon's Souls™ for PlayStation®3 Computer Entertainment System ()
- Anime Expo® Blasts Off with Additional Power Rangers Talents ()
- 5 Centimeters per Second and Voices of a Distant Star to Be Screened at Japan Information and Culture Center ()
- 2009 Fan Expo Canada ()
- Atlus Opens Valves, Lets Out Official Box Art, First Screenshots from North American Release of Steambot Chronicles™ Battle Tournament for PSP® (Playstation®Portable) System ()
- Shoujo Art Studio ()
- New York Asian Film Festival (June 19 – July 5) Announces Opening Night, Closing Night and Centerpiece Presentation Films ()
- World Cyber Games USA National Final to Be Held at New York Anime Festival ()
- BoA - Korean Pop Comes to America ()
- Anime Expo® Breaks Out with 2009 Convention Commercial ()
- Atlus Online Tinkers with Hands-On Demos of Upcoming Steam Punk MMORPG at E3 2009 ()
- Crunchyroll and Namco Cybertainment Inc. Go Crane Crazy with Naruto Shippuden ()
- GCA Games Convention Asia Goes Cosplay ()
- Contest - Happy Yaoi Yum Yum ()
- Viz Media Releases Historical Non-Fiction Book - The Century of the Black Ships ()
- Produced by Mana (ex-MALICE MIEZER), Cello Vocalist Kanon Wakeshima Will Make Her U.S. Debut at Otakon ()
- Crunchyroll Streams Brand New Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Korean Dramas: Modern Housewives and My Life's Golden Age ()
- Anime Expo® Announces Famed Gundam 00 and Fullmetal Alchemist Director, Seiji Mizushima, as an Official 2009 Guest of Honor ()
- Film Independent Announces Additional Film Selections & Programming for 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival: Walt Disney Pictures' Ponyo Selected as Closing Night Film – ()
- Make Sure to Catch Big Man Japan This Weekend ()
- Alteil.com Card Set 4: Beasts on Sacred Ground is Here ()
- The Raiho Has Landed; SMT: Devil Summoner®2 In Stores Now ()
- Morning Musume。 x MySpace Worldwide OPV (Original Promotion Video) Contest ()
- Atlanime 7th Anniversary ()
- The Licensing Machine (Panini Group) Will Premiere in Europe the New Fullmetal Alchemist Series on YouTube ()
- New York Comic Con Announces Happy Hour ()
- FanimeCon 2009 Announces Voice Actors and Motion Capture Experts of Albert Wesker, Jill Valentine, & Chris Redfield as Guests of Honor ()
- Vamps Live 2009 U.S.A. — Confirmed ()
- Barbican Film - Japanimation: Tetsujin 28 - 30 June ()
- 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 ()
- Anime Expo® Announces Studio Orphee Head and Famed Writer, Yosuke Kuroda, as an Official 2009 Guest of Honor ()
- FUNimation Entertainment, Toei Animation, Shueisha and Fuji Television Announce Online Simulcast of One Piece ()
- FanimeCon 2009 Announces Halko Momoi (Musician, Songwriter, & Seiyū) as a Guest of Honor ()
- Critical Mass Video Announces August 25 Release of HypnoLove: A Boy's Toy DVD ()
- Kalafina Has Just Released Their U.S. Debut Album This Week ()
- Colossalcon Announces Final Guests ()
- Critical Mass Video Announces August 25 Release of Anime 18's Demon Warrior Koji DVD ()
- Right Stuf's Nozomi Entertainment Announces the His and Her Circumstances DVD Collection for August 25, 2009 ()
- Critical Mass Video Announces August 25 Release of Anime 18's Black Widow DVD ()
- Junemanga.com is Back and Revamped...and Juné Books Are Too ()
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete ()
- Combat Ensues with Konami Digital Entertainment Inc.'s Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Trading Card Game Raging Battle Booster Set ()
- Alteil Card Dueling Game Announces Card Set 4 and Rarity up Event ()
- NY Anime Festival Presents Super Para Natural Manga Day at NYC's Kinokuniya Bookstore ()
- 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 ()
- The Chicken Returns! Anime Expo® 2009 Welcomes Robot Chicken ()
- eigoMANGA Announces Worldwide Subscription Distribution via EBSCO ()
- Zenkaikon Announces Johnny Yong Bosch, Eyeshine, Hi5, Ikuzo! Studios ()
- eManga.com Revamp and New Features ()
- Yamato USA Announces Fantasy Figure Gallery: The Sacrifice, Inspired by the Work of Dorian Cleavenger ()
- 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 ()
- Henry VIII by William Shakespeare ()
- Cellist/Vocalist Kanon Wakeshima to Make US Debut at Otakon© ()
- 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 ()
- Douglas Glen Resigns as Imagi International Holdings CEO ()
- Funimation Channel Continues Expansion: World's Best Anime Series Now Found On Comcast Cable Nationwide ()
- Tsubasacon Announces Industry and Musical Guests for 2009 ()
- Big Man Japan Opens in LA and NY Next Friday, May 15th ()
- Right Stuf's Anime Today Talks Manga Publishing with Erica Friedman of ALC Publishing ()
- Knights in the Nightmare™: Tome of Lost Souls™ ()
- Kotobukiya Announces San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive: Black Widow Marvel x Bishoujo ()
- Pwanda! Available to Buy ()
- Michael Mcconnohie and Melodee M. Spevack to Appear at AnimeIowa and Nan Desu Kan ()
- Sakura Wars Announced for North America at Last ()
- Intermixi's 1st Annual "Yellow Fever Awards" Begins ()
- JapanFiles and Nitroplus Begin Partnership with Soundtracks for "Phantom of Inferno" + 15 More! ()
- Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent Kicks Off Testing with “Golden Ticket” Early Access Promotion ()
- Irasshaimase! Anime Expo® 2009 Announces Animaid Café to Debut at This Year's Convention ()
- London MCM Expo World Record Attempt: Your Chance to Be Part of Gaming History ()
- Viz Pictures Presents the First Adventure of the J-Pop Center Project with the Grand Opening of New People in San Francisco This Summer ()
- The UK's Biggest Entertainment Event is Back ()
- Anime Expo® Announces Kari Wahlgren as an Official 2009 American Guest of Honor ()
- Viz Pictures to Release the Dark Romantic Comedy Happily Ever After on DVD ()
- Kadokawa Tuesdays on Crunchyroll to Launch Mail, Onmyoji and Kadokawa Mystery & Horror Tales ()
- FUNimation Entertainment Partners with Anime News Network to Stream Select Series ()
- Alteil.com Announces Free Cinco De Mayo Avatar Event and Adds Pay-By-Cash and Ultimate Gamercard ()
- Super Robot Taisen® OG Saga: Endless Frontier™ for Nintendo DS™ Bounces into Select Retailers ()
- Sentai Filmworks Releases Appleseed ()
- Crunchyroll Streams Brand New Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Korean Dramas: 2 Outs in the 9th Inning, Over the Rainbow, Prince Hours and Yi-San ()
- Now Shipping from Yamato USA - Fantasy Figure Gallery: Medusa's Gaze Inspired by the Work of Luis Royo ()
- Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation Announces Finalists for the 2009 SPJA Industry Awards ()
- Viz Media Delights Naruto Fans with the New Shonen Jump Naruto Shippuden Collector ()
- Anime! to Pop in Academy Galleries ()
- Nearly 900 Duelists Converge on the SHONEN JUMP Championship in Anaheim - Marks the Second Largest Event Ever ()
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 to Stream on Crunchyroll ()
- Hulu Adds Full Episodes of Full Metal Alchemist 2 Brotherhood to Fast Growing Anime Library ()
- Atlus.com: "I Live... Again!" ()
- Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group Acquires Domestic Media Rights for Blood: The Last Vampire ()
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The dazzling pop idols of THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS spill the beans on their first-ever American performance.
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Answerman - Why Can't Some Older Anime Be Remastered?
anime
Some older anime get sparkling, crystal-clear remasters, while others have muffled audio and compromised video - why is that? Justin gets into it.
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anime
GKIDS in bringing Kiki's Delivery Service to select cinemas nationwide for a special two-day event on July 23 & 24 as part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2017, and we've got tickets, as well as some other cool Kiki prizes.
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anime
Paul dug the first series of Magi, but can the second series live up to its predecessor's quality? Plus, the complete rundown on all this week's new anime releases!
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anime
This reimagining of Ash's origins as a Pokemon Trainer in Kanto has the unique opportunity to entertain nostalgic fans and newcomers alike. Callum May finds out if this exciting Pokemon project can stick the landing.
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Kakegurui GN 1
manga
While you wait around for Netflix to finally release this season's anime adaptation of Kakegurui, Rebecca Silverman can tell you whether the original psychosexual gambling manga is worth reading!
― Do you like to take risks? We're not talking “eat the expired leftovers” type risks, though – more like a “wager $40 million that eating the expired leftovers won't make you sick” situation. If that sounds...
Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku Figure - WINNER
merch
― Last month, we held a giveaway for one lucky winner to take home the Anime Expo exclusive Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku, the newest addition to the Figure-rise Standard line. Bluefin, the official North American distributor for Bandai toys, gave Anime News Network one figure to give to a randomly selected entrant. Today, we're announcing the winner is Angela Gray! Angela, we've sent you an e...
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anime
In this classic edition of The List, nobody's a bigger fan of felines than these seven victims of catscratch fever! Does your own love for kitties compare?
― This column was originally published on May 30, 2015. Dogs may be man's best friend, but it's cats that rule the internet. Scientists have gone so far as trying to classify the key qualities that make up "cat people" and "dog people." Male cat ...
Spice & Wolf Novel 18
novels
Spice and Wolf returns after five years for a collection of follow-up short stories, which serve as a bridge to the new upcoming spin-off. Theron Martin has the details.
― Though the main story of Spice and Wolf officially ended with novel 17, author Isuna Hasekura apparently couldn't resist tossing off a few follow-up short stories, which originally appeared on his publisher's home page. These are c...
Your Daily Streaming Reviews Schedule: Summer 2017
anime
The results are in and we have your Daily Streaming Reviews schedule for Summer 2017!
― This season's poll results have been tallied and we've put together the schedule for the Summer 2017 Daily Streaming Reviews! Due to lack of interest in the show, Gabriella Ekens will be wrapping up her reviews of Sagrada Reset this week. Nick Creamer will also cover Symphogear AXZ in the event that it is licensed...
Tokyo Ghoul (Live-Action Film)
live-action
Tokyo Ghoul makes the jump from manga to anime to a live-action film. Does the original story's spirit survive the translation? Gabriella Ekens finds out.
― Tokyo Ghoul has been one of the biggest manga hits of the past few years. As these big hits often do, the franchise recently received a live action film adaptation. These types of movies have been a mixed bag in the past, so I didn't harbor many ...
Answerman - Why Are Anime Soundtracks Missing Songs?
anime
Every now and then you'll buy an anime soundtrack and it turns out to be missing one or two tracks you were counting on - why does that happen? Justin explains.
― Pearl asks: Sometimes I wait months for the release of a certain anime soundtrack just to hear one specific piece of BGM, only to find that it's nowhere to be found on the disc! For example, Yona of the Dawn has several tracks that are mis...
The Best (and worst) Summer 2017 Short Anime
anime
Every season there's a small mountain of anime under 15 minutes long - here's our guide to the best and worst short anime of the Summer 2017 season!
― James Beckett At last, it's time to check in on the shorts premiering this season, and we're starting off with AHO-GIRL, a ten or so minute comedy centered around the lives of Yoshiko Hanabatake, and her perpetually miserable counterpoint, Akkun. Like ...
Black Butler: The Movie BD+DVD
live-action
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― You can tell just from that synopsis that we're not in standard Black Butler territory anymore. This live-action film departs from the source material in its very first scene, plunging us into modern-day Japan rather t...