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Japan’s Weekly Manga Ranking for Dec 13 – 19

Here is the weekly manga sales ranking for December 13th – 19th. *1, 568,634 568,634 Nodame Cantabile vol.25 *2, 173,550 176,381 Chihayafuru vol.11 *3, 162,199 162,199 Fairy Tail vol.24 *4, 115,628 116,247 Tonari no Kaibutsukun vol.6 *5, *99,406 *99,406 Hajime…

Second Season of Kaiji Due In April

According to Weekly Young Magazine, the second season of Kaiji was announced to start on April 5th. It will animate the second manga series Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji. Source: Scan of Young Magazine

Canadian New Singer HIMEKA Sings Valkyria Theme Song

A Canadian new face singer HIMEKA (Catherine St Onge) will sing the theme song of “Valkyria Chronicles”. She won the grand prize in Japan Anime Song Audition last September. Source: Anime!Anime! Related news: Canadian Singer Wins Grand Prize in Japan…

Kodansha to Publish, Sell Manga in U.S.

Kodansha has established Kodansha USA with the intent to publish and directly sell manga volumes starting in September. They also intend to transfer all of its copyrights to this local subsidiary to enter overseas publishing. Source: ANN

GONZO’s New TV Anime Nyanpire Announced

According to Anime!Anime!, GONZO’s new TV anime “Nyanpire The Animation” was announced to be aired this summer. Nyanpire anime official website Naypire official website Staff Director & Character Design: Yoshimatsu Takahiro Series Composition: Takahashi Natsuko Nyanpire was originally yukiusa’s dojinshi…

Sori Fumihiko To Direct FUNimation’s Dragon Age Anime

Japanese movie producer T.O Entertainment announced that they are producing an anime movie of BIOWARE’s RPG game Dragon Age. The movie has recently been announced by FUNimation. The main production studio is OXYBOT (“Vexille – 2077 Nihon Sakoku”) and the…