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Second Season of Tentai Senshi Sunred Announced

According to the official websites, the second season of “Tentai Senshi Sunred” was announced. The detail of the new season will be given later. Sources: Sunred official website Kubota Makoto’s official website

Japan Norio Wakamoto Championship Announced

Good Smile Company and Nippon Cultural Broadcasting have announced to hold a convention focusing on moe culture on June 2nd and 3rd in Tokyo. Moe Culture Festival 2012 official website As one of the stage events of the festival, “Norio…

Japan’s Weekly Manga Rankings for Mar 28 – Apr 3

Here are the weekly manga & light novels rankings for March 28th – April 3rd. Manga *1, 124,310 *,266,390 Moyashimon vol.10 *2, 101,209 *,346,243 Ookiku Furikabutte vol.16 *3, *83,961 *,160,866 Koukou Debut vol.14 *4, *81,354 *,969,875 Kimi ni Todoke vol.13…

Charity Efforts for Japan

Online Events Yaoi-Con is holding a special online auction from March 13-20th for tsunami relief. All the proceeds will go to Japan Red Cross. The items up for bid are signed or one of a kind, and many are non-yaoi…

Manga Ooku Wins Tiptree Award 2009

The James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council announced the winners of the 2009 award. Yoshinaga Fumi’s manga Ooku was selected along with Greer Gilman’s Cloud and Ashes. The members of the jury were not much familiar with manga and Japanese…

JoJo’s Biological Adventure

For a recent publication of the prestigious science journal Cell, two of the authors behind the issue’s featured article, Dr. Mitsutoshi Setou and Dr. Hiroshi Ageta, requested that Mangaka Hirohiko Araki (Baoh, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Steel Ball Run) illustrate the…

Worldwide Release of Dinosaur Anime GON

According to Shinbunka Online, Kodansha will release a 3D CGI anime of Tanaka Masashi’s manga Gon in association with Korean media group Daewon MEDIA. It will be aired on TV worldwide from the second half of the year 2011. Source:…

Visual Novel ‘White Album 2’ to be Animated

According to a short article in this month’s issue of NewType magazine, Aquaplus’ visual novel “White Album 2” will get an anime adaptation. It will be made by Satelight and the story will follow the PS3 edition. Mizushima Takahiro, Yonezawa…