According to Shueisha, a new TV anime series titled “Aoi Bungaku (blue literature)” will start from October 10th. They will animated four Japanese classical literatures and the original character designs are done by manga authors Obata Takeshi, Kubo Tite and…
According to the twitter post of Nojiri Housuke (the novel author of Rocket Girls), he will commercialize a panty-shaped toy plane inspired by the ED animation of Sora no Otoshimono episode 2. Sora no Otoshimono ED2 (Youtube) Nojiri’s “Flying Pantsu”…
According to the official website, the OP theme song of Sukitte Ii na yo. was announced to be the late singer and song writer Okazaki Ritsuko’s song “Friendship”, which was originally composed for Love Hina. Okazaki passed away in 2004…
According to good! Afternoon magazine vol. 25, manga “Witch Craft Works” was announced to get an anime adaptation. The fourth volume of the comic book will be released on November 7th. Source: Cover of Good Afternoon Witch Craft Works on…
According to the official website, a live event of Steins;Gate has been held at Akhabara Radio Kaikan, where an “artificial satellite-like object” had fallen in the anime. During the three-day event, a model of the satellite has been displayed on…
According to Planète-Jeunesse, it was announced at Chibi Japan Expo held in Paris that a producer John Chalopin and a French television company TF1 will remake a Japanese anime Mysterious Cities of Gold (Japanese title: Taiyou no Ko Esteban) into…
Here is the weekly manga & light novels sales rankings for January 31st – February 6th. Manga *1, 2,086,080 2,086,080 One Piece vol.61 *2, *,203,471 *,203,471 Gintama vol.38 *3, *,*99,416 *,*99,416 Kaichou wa Maid-sama! vol.12 *4, *,*86,689 *,*86,689 Sket Dance…
Miyazaki Hayao talked about his encounter with Tezuka Osamu’s works for the first time. He confessed the admiration for and the repulsion against the great Mangaka. “I’ve been struggling with Tezuka for long. Words like indebtedness or gratitude cannot describe…
Against our hopes the next Higurashi series will be only an OVA called “Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei” The OVA is based on the fangame wich has the same name released back in december 2006. The info comes from…
Here is the weekly manga sales ranking top 30 for November 17th – 23rd. Rank/ This week’s sales/ Total sales/ Title *1, 196,094 196,094 Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE vol.25 *2, 176,983 176,983 Mahou Sensei Negima! vol.24 *3, 138,715 138,715 Ace of…