Things have been a little fishy with Media Blasters lately. They had to cancel the rerelease of Record of Lodoss War, and they didn't get the license for Queen's Blade Rebellion like they did with the previous series. Right S...
| Bob Muir |
For the first time in America, Yu-Gi-Oh! will be in the hands of another company. In April 2011, 4Kids filed for bankruptcy after TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems sued over a discrepancy in Yu-Gi-Oh! payments. Now, eve...
| Bob Muir |
If you're into live-action porn parodies of anime, hopefully you thought to grab Layers;Gate before now. TMA, the adult video producer behind such titles as K-ONBU! and The Melancholy of Hahiru Suzumiya, has announced that th...
| Bob Muir |
They warned that it might come to this, and I guess it has. In order to stave off a lawsuit, 4Kids Entertainment has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11. If you haven't been keeping up, TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Syst...
| Bob Muir |
After 4Kids supposedly withheld money and made secret back room deals with FUNimation over the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, Nihon Ad Systems and TV Tokyo have chosen to terminate their license arrangement with 4Kids. In addition to n...
| Bob Muir |
Code Geass, Sunrise's crazy mech show about a fabulous chessmaster, has had a manga prequel running for a little while now. Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya occurs during the same timeline as the anime, though is set during Japa...
| Bob Muir |
Whenever I think of Yu-Gi-Oh!, I remember the days when 4Kids first put it on Kids' WB, and how "dark" everything seemed compared to Pokemon at the time, even in a sanitized form where anything bad was replaced with vague ref...
| Bob Muir |
It's not often you hear about titles from FUNimation going out of print, but the leading anime publisher in America just sent out notices to various distributors like Robert's Anime Corner Store that they will be discontinuin...
| Bob Muir |
She may not be the main character or even a well-known character, but Cathy the rabbit, a character from Sanrio's Hello Kitty franchise, is now being thrust to the forefront of a copyright debate. According to Mercis BV, a co...
| Bob Muir |
And now for more news on Japan's police being totally hardcore. The Chikusei Police were on "cyber patrol," and - hold on, let's stop right there. Claiming you were on "cyber patrol" conjures up images of ...
| Bob Muir |
An office in Tokyo has announced that legal assistance will now be available for foreigners as of November. The Tokyo Public Law Office is attempting to overcome challenges such as language barriers, little informat...
| Crystal White |
I reported on Vertical's awesome panel at NYAF last week, at which they announced a ton of good new licenses, such as Osamu Tezuka's The Book of Human Insects (pictured on right). Another important license, No Longer Human by...
| Ben Huber |
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