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9:04 PM on 04.10.2013

Zero no Tsukaima author Noboru Yamaguchi passes away

Well this is unfortunate news. Noboru Yamaguchi, author of Zero no Tsukaima and Green Green, has passed away. He'd been battling with cancer for quite some time, and in December was re-admitted into the hospital for treatment...

Elliot Gay

11:00 AM on 12.29.2012

The semicolon returns in Occultic;Nine

With Robotics;Notes in full swing, I don't think anyone was really expecting to hear word of another story from Chiyomaru Shikura. Unlike his past offerings, this one will not be a visual novel. It seems he is about to branc...

Chris Walden

9:00 PM on 10.18.2012

Sword Art Online: Progressive vol. 1 sells gangbusters

A week or so ago, Sword Art Online: Progressive vol. 1 hit bookstore shelves. What exactly is Progressive? It's a reboot of the novel series, designed with the idea of closing up plot holes and making the timeline a little bi...

Elliot Gay

5:00 AM on 09.07.2012

Oreimo light novel series set to end with volume 12

Looks like the ever so popular light novel/anime series, Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai, will be reaching its conclusion sometime very soon. The 11th volume of the novel series went on sale this week and includes...

Elliot Gay



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Japanator Kind of Recommends: Vampire Hunter D Vol 18
by Pedro Cortes




Final Impressions: Hiiro no Kakera photo
Final Impressions: Hiiro no Kakera
by Kristina Pino


10:00 AM on 04.24.2012

Library War coming to the big screen in June

We just got our hands on two recently released trailers for Library War: The Wings of Revolution, the upcoming anime film adaptation of Hiro Arikawa’s Library War light novels. The film, directed by Takayuki Hamana (App...

Michelle Rodanes

10:00 AM on 04.11.2012

Yen Press steps up Spice and Wolf light novel releases

Translating light novels takes time, especially for small publishers. Up till now, Yen Press was only releasing two volumes of the original Spice and Wolf books a year, with the sixth volume planned for June 12, 2012. The com...

Bob Muir

5:00 PM on 04.10.2012

Nogizaka Haruka returns to conclude the anime

It's almost three years since Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu: Purezza aired, but it seems that there is still more rich-otaku action to be had. The official Dengeki website has revealed that the series will be concluded in the fo...

Chris Walden

3:00 PM on 04.09.2012

Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo to be adapted into a TV anime

If there is anyone out there who follows the novels, then you are in luck my friend. The Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo series of light novels by Kamoshida Hajime are going to be adapted into an anime series. I have a hunch ...

Salvador G-Rodiles

3:00 PM on 04.07.2012

All of the Monogatari novels will be animated

While Akiyuki Shinbo, the director over at Shaft, had mentioned before that he would like to animate all of the novels in Nisio Isin's 'Monogatari' series, it still comes as somewhat of a surprise that it is actually happenin...

Chris Walden

11:00 AM on 04.03.2012

Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita trailer is delightfully odd

Last weekend, Studio AIC A.S.T.A released the first promotional trailer for the upcoming anime adaptation of Romeo Tanaka's seinen light novel Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita. Adapted by Makoto Uezu (Kamisama Dolls, Bottle Fairy,...

Michelle Rodanes