Category: Anime News

Animeleague at the UK’s Entertainment Media Show on October 1-2

Animeleague at the UK’s Entertainment Media Show on October 1-2

Animeleague will be heading up the anime, cosplay, video gaming and j-culture for this year’s Entertainment Media Show (run by Showmasters, the same people who have brought you the UK’s biggest sci-fi/gaming/anime/comic event London Film and Comic Con!), which is expected to get over 25,000 attendance. There are too many big-name guests to list, see [...]

Saboten Con Announces Sean Schemmel as Final Guest for This Year

Saboten Con Announces Sean Schemmel as Final Guest for This Year

Phoenix, Arizona (September 22, 2011) Saboten Con welcomes Sean Schemmel as their final guest for this year. Saboten Con will be held from September 30 to October 2 at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. Sean Schemmel is an American voice actor, ADR director, and script writer who has worked for FUNimation [...]

Anime USA 2011 Proudly Announces Our First Round Of Webcomics Guests

Anime USA 2011 Proudly Announces Our First Round Of Webcomics Guests

Anime USA 2011 announces Onezumi and Kevin Bolk as webcomics guest for this year’s convention on November 18-20th at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City. Onezumi’s Lovecraftian horror comic is located at http://www.onezumi.com. It is updated two times a week. Her art and art tutorials are at http://www.Onezumiverse.com. Her creator-focused art and technology convention is located [...]

Zipangu Fest To Host Films By Star of Japan’s Contemporary Experimental Scene

Zipangu Fest To Host Films By Star of Japan’s Contemporary Experimental Scene

Screenings at the ICA and Café Oto with soundtracks by Jim O’Rourke and Machinefabriek Four films by the leading light of Japan’s contemporary experimental scene, Takashi Makino, will be screened at this year’s Zipangu Fest. Three of Makino’s abstract visual odysseys – with soundtracks by avant garde musicians Jim O’Rourke and Machinefabriek – will be [...]

VIZ Media Sweeps Latest NY Times Manga Bestseller List – Twice in a Month

VIZ Media Sweeps Latest NY Times Manga Bestseller List – Twice in a Month

San Francisco, CA, September 21, 2011 – Viz Media, LLC (Viz Media), the largest distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North America, has swept the latest Top 10 on the New York Times Manga Bestseller list for the week of September 10th. This is the second time the company has dominated the list [...]

X Japan Conquers Latin America

X Japan Conquers Latin America

(LOS ANGELES, CA ­ September 21, 2011) — X Japan’s first concert tour of Latin America wrapped up Sunday night with a sold-out show in Mexico City that mirrored the frenzy the band brought to all five of their stops. In Santiago, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Lima, and Mexico City, fans, many of whom had [...]

Critical Mass Video Announces Decemeber 6, 2011 Release of Anime18′s Urotsukidoji New Saga Complete DVD Collection

Critical Mass Video Announces Decemeber 6, 2011 Release of Anime18′s Urotsukidoji New Saga Complete DVD Collection

GRIMES, IA, September 21, 2011 – Leading adult anime label Critical Mass Video is pleased to present the Anime 18 release of the UROTSUKIDOJI NEW SAGA Complete DVD Collection on December 6, 2011. Also known as “The Urotsuki,” this retelling of Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend is an original video animation from Digital Works (Love [...]

Aniplex and Nico Nico Douga Present Fate/Zero Streaming Worldwide

Aniplex and Nico Nico Douga Present Fate/Zero Streaming Worldwide

TOKYO, JAPAN (September 21, 2010) — niwango Inc., known for its “Nico Nico Douga” video sharing website (www.nicovideo.jp), and Aniplex Inc. have jointly announced today that they will premiere Aniplex’s brand new TV series titled “Fate/Zero” worldwide (except for Japan) streaming simultaneously with eight different language subtitles on Sunday, October 2 at 1:00am (Japan local [...]

Con-Nichiwa Announces Initial Guest List

Con-Nichiwa Announces Initial Guest List

Tucson, Arizona – September 20, 2011 Con-Nichiwa welcomes voice actors Monica Rial, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Mike McFarland, and Kyle Hebert as guests. The convention will be held from March 23rd to the 25th 2012 at the Holiday Inn Palo Verde in Tucson, Arizona. Making her first appearance, Monica is scheduled to attend Con-Nichiwa 2012. Monica Rial [...]

AM2 Launches Online Registration for Artist Alley

AM2 Launches Online Registration for Artist Alley

2012′s Most Anticipated Animation, Music and Manga Convention in Southern California to Be Held at the Anaheim Convention Center Invites Local Artists to Participate LOS ANGELES, Calif. (September 20, 2011)– On the heels of announcing official dates for 2012′s (June 15-17, 2012 at the Anaheim Convention Center and Hotels) most anticipated animation, music and manga [...]