Mobile Phone company docomo announced that they closed the pre-ordering of the new model “SH-06A NERV”, a special phone featuring “Rebuild of Evangelion: 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE”. 20,000 devices were quickly sold out and the pre-ordering lasted only for…
Here are the weekly manga & light novels rankings for September 3rd – 9th. Ranks/ This week’s sales by copies/ Cumulative sales/ Titles Manga *1, *,486,195 *,486,195 Ao no Exorcist vol.9 *2, *,399,510 *,399,510 Bleach vol.56 *3, *,352,813 *,352,813 Kuroko…
According to AmiAmi online shop, two short OVAs will be distributed to those who purchase all the five DVDs of Hakuoki Hekketsuroku. The “Edo Chapter” of Hakuoki Zuisouroku and Hakuoki SSL will be animated. The total length of the two…
A new movie of “Galaxy Express 999″ was announced to be shown at Galaxy Express 999 Movie Festival on September 9th. The 999 second-long movie titled “Galaxy Express 999 Diamond Ring no Kanata e” was produced to celebrate the 30th…
According to Nitro+, a short OVA will be bundled with the PC adventure game “Guilty Crown Lost Christmas”, which will describe the prequel to Guilty Crown. It is 12 minutes long and will be released on May 31st. Guilty Crown…
According to MyNavi News, an original anime movie “HAL” was announced to be premiered on June 8th 2013. It’s a sci-fi romance story about a girl named Kurumi and the android Q01, which resembles her deceased lover Hal. HAL official…
ANN is reporting that Funimation has licensed the Claymore. They made the announcement at noon CST today. No word on a release schedule as of yet. The manga is being released by Viz Media and has been released up to…
The government of Japan announced that Hello Kitty is the new tourism ambassador to China and Hong Kong. Previously, eleven individuals have been named as tourism ambassadors, but Hello Kitty is the first fictional character to be given the honors.…
An article in the Mainichi News described a growing trend in Akihabara (the otaku hangout of Tokyo) of dressing kegadoru-literally meaning ‘injured idols’. Instead of maids and eyeglasses, cosplayers dress themselves as if they have an injury, including eye patches…
Anime production studio Encourage Films has announced that they have suspended director Sato Junichi’s original anime project “Wish Angel”. Ikeda Toyo, the President of the studio, explained that they decided to give priority to other projects, which have been running…