VIZ Media announced the releases of new manga series in the second quarter of 2009. The ten titles and the release dates are as follows: DOGS PRELUDE (already in stores) Ikigami (May 12th) Detroit Metal City (June 9th) Gestalt (June…
Here is the weekly manga sales ranking top 30 for June 22nd – 28th. *1, 301,945 *,301,945 Ookiku Furikabutte vol.12 *2, 258,048 *,258,048 xxxHOLiC vol.15 *3, 167,692 *,167,692 Kuroshitsuji vol.7 *4, 146,701 *,146,701 Minami-ke vol.6 *5, 145,120 *,145,120 Billy Bat…
Seiyu Koyama Tsuyoshi has announced on his official blog that he got married to anime song singer Shimokawa Mikuni. Koyama is 44 years old and Shimokawa is 31. Source: Koyama’s blog
Bandai Channel announced that the news of the second season of Sanada Juyushi was a mistake. Source: Bandai Channel Blog According to Bandai Channel email magazine, the second season of Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densetsu Sanada Juu Yuushi The Animation was…
Here are the weekly Blu-ray & CD rankings for October 1st – 7th. Blu-ray *1, 7,703 **7,703 Tari Tari vol.2 *2, 3,685 **3,685 Oda Nobuna no Yabou vol.2 *3, 2,695 **2,695 Amagami SS+ plus vol.7 *4, 1,422 **1,422 Acchi Kocchi…
Yet another group of students have been disciplined for bringing a ‘Death Note’ to school, this time it happened in Tacoma, Washington. The school sent a pre-recorded message to parents “Recently, an event at Kopachuck has raised safety awareness to…
Here is the weekly manga sales ranking top 30 for Dec 1st – 7th. Finally, Oricon database got back to normal. This week’s Oricon manga ranking hasn’t uploaded again. So I quoted Bunkyo-do ranking for this week, too. Rank/ This…
According to the cover of Ciao magazine, Nishimura Tomoko’s manga “Gugutto Gokujou!! Mecha Mote Iinchou” was announced to get a TV anime adaptation. It will be aired from April. The manga has been published in Ciao since 2006 and six…
According to Anime!Anime!, OneManga.com announced that they will remove all the illegal scanlations from the website by the end of July. They will seek a new business model utilizing the users’ community. Source: Anime!Anime! related topics: Japanese and US Manga…
According to GAGAGA Bunko, light novel ‘GJ-bu Chûtôbu’ (Good Job Club Junior High School) was announced get a TV anime adaptation. Cover art of the first volume of the novel “GJ-bu Chûtôbu” is a spin-off novel series of completed light…