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FUNimation Entertainment has announced its acquisition of Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino-. The anime is the sequel to Gunslinger Girl, which Funimation released in North America starting in 2005. Both series are based on the manga by Yu Aida and follows...

Popopure, the first maid café that also doubles as an animation studio, opened last month in Tokyo's Akihabara otaku shopping district. Not only can customers order food served by waitresses in maid costumes, but they can also dub their...

The IGN entertainment website is streaming a full episode of Funimation's English Shin-chan adaptation of the Crayon Shin-chan anime series in high and low resolution. The series centers on the family of a rambunctious kindergartener - with mostly...

On May 9, the Kyoto Prefectural Police's High-Tech Crime Task Force arrested three individuals on suspicion of using the Share file-sharing software to distribute anime and other content on the Internet without the copyright holders'...

The Japanese edition of Newsweek magazine lists Satoshi Kon's Paprika anime in its 100 Best Films list. The magazine's critics selected their top films for the expanded Golden Week issue (April 30/May 7 issue). Only a few titles produced in...

The IGN entertainment news website has posted three minutes of video from the Wachowski Brothers' live-action film remake of the Speed Racer car-racing anime series. The website also has trailers as well as profiles on the main character Speed...

America's Time news magazine has named Takashi Murakami, the modern artist that popularized the Superflat style of anime-influenced art, to the 2008 Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. Louis Vuitton creative director Marc...

Digital Manga Publishing announced that Hideyuki Kikuchi, the author of the Vampire Hunter D novels, and Saiko Takaki, the artist of the ongoing Vampire Hunter D manga adaptation, will attend Anime Expo at Los Angeles this July as the publisher's...