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9:00 AM on 04.01.2013

Editorial: The new state of industry

Japanese prices? It's a better alternative, than nothing at all?

Jeff Chuang

11:15 AM on 03.24.2013

Wolf Children wins big at the Tokyo Anime Awards

Chalk one up for disgustingly adorable children - the Tokyo Anime Awards have just been handed out, and it seems that Summer Wars fellow Mamoru Hosoda has done it again. Wolf Children - Ame and Yuki took a...

Josh Tolentino



Japanator's 2012 US Industry Review photo
Japanator's 2012 US Industry Review
by Brad Rice




How Kickstarter can change the anime and manga industry photo
How Kickstarter can change the anime and manga industry
by Brad Rice




Japan Expo '12: Kaze President hates America photo
Japan Expo '12: Kaze President hates America
by Brad Rice


8:52 PM on 02.24.2011

News: Kodansha and Dai Nippon buy 93% of Vertical, Inc.

Vertical, Inc. is one of the most interesting manga publishers out there right now. They've put out a lot of manga of the kind that makes you think that the manga industry is much less dependent on the Narutos and Bleaches an...

Josh Tolentino

10:00 AM on 09.23.2010

Oregon adult content law killed thanks in part to Berserk

Those pesky lawmakers were at it again, trying to save the chilluns from the nasty ol' obscenities. Anime News Network reported on Oregon Revised Statue 167.054 and Oregon Revised Statue 167.057, which were set to criminalize...

Bob Muir

4:30 PM on 09.17.2010

Navarre has 6 buyers interested in FUNimation

Most of you are probably aware that FUNimation is being sold by its parent company, Navarre. While it's still a bit of an uncertain situation, there might be some good news on the horizon. Currently, Navarre has six buye...

Crystal White

6:00 PM on 09.14.2010

Anime Corner Store's 'sustain the industry' challenge

I was checking out Rob's Anime Corner Blog, and noticed that they posted an interesting deal: a $25 gift certificate to fans who post a video highlighting what they've purchased from the store in the comments thread of a vide...

Brad Rice



Yotusba & Industry photo
Yotusba & Industry
by Ben Huber


5:03 PM on 09.08.2010

FUNimation channel going HD, includes Baccano!, others

Hate low-quality web streams? Internet too slow for torrents? Too cheap or impatient for Blu-rays? Or do you just prefer regular-ole' television to your monitor? FUNimation has some good news for you!The FUNimation channel ha...

Josh Tolentino

6:34 PM on 08.30.2010

Atlus being absorbed, though its name shall remain

Now, now. It's not as bad as it sounds. Atlus, everyone's favorite Catherine developer/publisher, isn't being dismantled or shut down, but rather being merged into its parent company, Index Holdings, which purchased Atlus bac...

Josh Tolentino



Watch Yamakan's new anime Fractal, or he'll retire photo
Watch Yamakan's new anime Fractal, or he'll retire
by Josh Tolentino


6:40 PM on 08.05.2010

Will FUNimation be sold? Find out in two quarters

It's been rumbling about the industry for a while now, but it seems that the cat may soon exit the bag. Navarre Corporation, parent company of FUNimation, is due to make "a strategic decision" regarding the publishe...

Josh Tolentino



Japanator Discusses: Dai Sato rants on the state of anime photo
Japanator Discusses: Dai Sato rants on the state of anime
by Josh Tolentino


3:00 PM on 07.30.2010

Jon Schiller Design caught tracing multiple anime, games

It's shades of Nick Simmons with a new comic/toy property called SINS!, a darker spin-off of Jon Schiller Design's Little 9 property. Artist Jon Schiller, or someone working under him, has released a series of promotional ima...

Bob Muir

1:00 PM on 07.30.2010

Kannagi's Yamakan predicts end of anime home video sales

Apparently director Yutaka Yamamoto, a.k.a. Yamakan, is not too happy with the current state of the anime industry. Despite just releasing the highly anticipated OVA Black Rock Shooter through his own production company Studi...

Bob Muir



Swedish manga translator fined for lolicon photos photo
Swedish manga translator fined for lolicon photos
by Bob Muir


7:00 PM on 07.21.2010

Ryu Murakami bypasses publisher dominance by going iPad

Despite really being several iPod Touches nailed together, it seems the iPad is here to stay.It's an intriguing device though, especially in its potential as a replacement for paper-bound books and manga. Nothing's going to t...

Josh Tolentino



TokyoPop pairs up with Zinio for digital manga releases photo
TokyoPop pairs up with Zinio for digital manga releases
by Crystal White




9:00 PM on 06.21.2010

MangaFox pulls their entire Viz library, 'talking' to Viz

I wonder how this is going to go: the folks over at MangaFox are currently trying to talk with the people at Viz in regards to all the scans they're hosting of Viz's licensed properties. In addition to all 230 titles Viz aske...

Brad Rice

10:00 AM on 06.16.2010

Crunchyroll gets another $750k shot in the arm!

It looks like Crunchyroll really is attracting all the investors. Less than three months after TV Tokyo invested in the group, Japanese e-publisher Bitway announced that they're also dropping $750,000 into Crunchyroll's coffe...

Brad Rice



Yotsuba & Scanlations photo
Yotsuba & Scanlations
by Ben Huber




Talking to the publishers about the anti-piracy coalition photo
Talking to the publishers about the anti-piracy coalition
by Brad Rice




This is war: US, Japanese pubs combine to fight scans photo
This is war: US, Japanese pubs combine to fight scans
by Josh Tolentino




Rumor: GAINAX and Evangelion remakes splitting up? photo
Rumor: GAINAX and Evangelion remakes splitting up?
by Ben Huber


7:00 PM on 05.29.2010

Rest in Peace, Peter Keefe: Voltron producer passes away

Remember Voltron? Classic giant robot, the one with lines, later with cars? I do. Growing up in the Philippines I was a little too young to get on the Voltes V bandwagon, but was right on time to catch Voltron and lion-combin...

Josh Tolentino

5:45 PM on 05.26.2010

Shocker: Evangelion 2.22 DVD/BD sells like gangbusters

Was it really any surprise that yet another Evangelion-related would sell like gangbusters, not least the biggest Evangelion-related thing since, well, Evangelion? Of course not.But this is, of course, a thing that ...

Josh Tolentino



DC shutters CMX, and so goes another manga publisher photo
DC shutters CMX, and so goes another manga publisher
by Brad Rice




Viz lays off 40% of its workforce, shutters NY office photo
Viz lays off 40% of its workforce, shutters NY office
by Brad Rice