Here is the weekly DVD sales ranking for September 14th – 20th. *1, 5,845 **5,845 K-ON! vol.3 DVD **, 5,580 **5,580 Winter Sonata Making Video *2, 4,245 811,364 Gake no Ue no Ponyo *3, 3,056 **3,056 Hayate the Combat Butler!!…
According to Asahi.com, Aoki Yuya’s Sommelier manga Kami no Shizuku won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award “Hall of Fame”. It’s for the first time that a Japanese book wins the French award. Eight volumes of the French edition of Kami…
According to the latest Jump SQ issue, Hiroyuki Takei (of Shaman King fame) and Stan Lee, will be working together on a oneshot manga. It will be published in a special edition of Jump SQ (on sale 4/18). Source: Shaman…
According to Sankei news, stop motion anime director Kawamoto Kihachiro passed away on August 23rd due to pneumonia. He was 85 years old. Kawamoto is known as one of the founders of Japanese puppet animation and his unique art style…
Here is the anime DVD sales ranking for July 13th – 19th. *1, 50,634 691,124 Gake no Ue no Ponyo *2, 10,494 *10,494 Usavich – Season 3 *3, *9,985 **9,985 Eiga Precure All-Stars DX: Minna Tomodachi – Kiseki no Zen-in…
Here are the weekly DVD and CD rankings for January 9th – 15th. DVD *1, 2,612 *,**2,612 One Piece 14th Season vol.4 *2, 2,197 *,**2,197 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai vol.1 *3, 1,366 *,**1,366 Naruto: Shippuuden Goei Shuketsu no Sho…
Accompanied by a panel of representatives from the respective copyright-holding anime companies from Japan, the Singapore-based anime distributor held a press conference Thursday to announce its plans to continue its battle against illegal downloaders… In an attempt to stop R3…
According to 47 News, K-ON! goods and a safe keeping the proceeds of a stand were found stolen from the old building of Toyosato Elementary School, the model place of K-ON! anime. The stolen goods, two guitars of Yui, one…
According to the official website, the three remaining episodes of Bakemonogatari will be streamed on the website. The first episode “Tsubasa Cat Episode 3” will be available for free on October 28th. Source: Bakemonogatari official website
Here is the weekly manga sales ranking for March 15th – 21st. *1, 263,106 *,263,106 Fairy Tail vol.20 *2, 152,197 *,152,197 Ace of Diamond vol.20 *3, 142,210 *,142,210 Hajime no Ippo vol.91 *4, 118,472 *,118,472 GTO: Shonan 14 Days vol.3…