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To promote the Japanese release of the Doraemon: Nobita to Midori no Kyojin Den anime movie this Saturday, Yahoo! Japan created an "Otona no Tame no Doraemon Tokush?" ("Doraemon Feature for Adults") section. The feature links to 45...

The ICv2 retail industry news source reports that Tokyopop has licensed Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, Kou Sasakura's two-volume manga adaptation of the PlayStation 2 supernatural action game from Konami. The manga was released in Japan in 2005...

Anime Expo has announced that director Masamitsu Hidaka (Pokémon, Juu Senshi Garukiba, Linebarrels of Iron) will be its first Japanese Guest of Honor at the July 3-6 convention in the Los Angeles Convention Center. Hidaka started out as a...

The 26th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival will screen the live-action Death Note film, a free showing of Hayao Miyazaki's Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, the manga-based A Gentle Breeze in the Village, and two animated...

The Yahoo! Movies website has posted the full trailer for the Wachowski Brothers' live-action film adaptation of the Speed Racer (Mach Go Go Go) car-racing anime series. The two-minute, 30-second trailer (and the earlier teaser trailer which was...

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles will feature a special discussion with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami on February 10, the second-to-last day of his exhibition there. The "©Murakami" exhibition features over 90 new works. In...

Volume 38 of the Ichijinsha publisher's email newsletter has officially confirmed on February 5 that Eri Takenashi's Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens manga will be animated for television. The story begins when an art student named Jin Mikuriya...

The official Japanese website of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday manga magazine has posted a commercial for Takashi Shiina's Zettai Karen Children paranormal comedy series. The commercial began airing in Japan in January. The same magazine...