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The official Japanese website for the anime adaptation of Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal manga has formally opened with a promotional video. The video first ran during last month's Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008. The video...

This week's issue of the Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump reportedly reveals that this year's "Jump Super Anime Tour" will visit 9 Japanese cities and screen exclusive new short anime films of Dragon Ball and One Piece. This will be...

Freelance manga translator Ryan Sands has revealed that Last Gasp will publish Yusaku Hanakuma's Tokyo Zombie horror comedy manga in North America on September 18. The manga follows two factory workers who are caught in the aftermath of a zombie...

Japan's Kyoto District Court has sentenced 39-year-old Sh?ji Sakai to a one-year prison sentence and a three-year suspended sentence on Friday for distributing anime on the Winny file-sharing network. Judge K?ji Shibata said he considered the...

Otaku USA editor Patrick Macias has posted an audio interview with Spider-Man and X-Men co-creator Stan Lee in which they discuss Karakurid?ji Ultimo and Lee's Japanese connections. Ultimo is Lee's manga collaboration with Shaman King's...

OverDrive, the company that is exporting the Japanese cosplaying magazine Cosmode in English, has posted a preview of the digital version of the magazine. Unlike other Japanese magazines that have gone abroad by translating almost all the Japanese text...

The May issue (on sale on April 10) of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine will officially anounce that an Eureka Seven movie has been greenlit for production. Director Tomoki Kyoda (RahXephon movie), character designer Kenichi Yoshida (Overman...

Today is the official release of the MidnightConMan.com website, the site offers Anime news, a Conventions Directory, Anime Galleries, and a handy Events Calendar (which will tell when the MidnightConMan will be in your area). To help the launch of the...