Congratulation to Kathryn Chong from Malaysia for winning the 2nd place at the Kodansha’s 2nd Morning International Manga Competition! Her manga is called Puppet Eyes and is now featured at the official MIMC website! Have a read at it here.
Kodansha’s Morning magazine has posted the results of the 2nd Morning International Manga Competition in [...]

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A big shout-out to all 80s sci-fi manga otakus! For those that followed Shonen JUMP from back then, who can forget one classic that clips on for nearly a decade called Space Adventure Cobra! And now fans are able to rejoice as the legendary manga had been in talk to be adapt into a live-action [...]

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In conjunction with the screening of the Eva Shin Gekijouban movie, Anime Shrine will be holding a special gathering to watch the movie. If you are interested, please drop your name a the official booking thread. Places are limited to 50 ppl only, so book quickly! New update. We are working with EMINA of [...]

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Back in 2005, Sprite Animations Studios, a studio founded by Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within co-director Moto Sakakibara and other former Square USA employees, announced that it was working on a computer-graphics film version for a 2007 release, but the project has yet to materialize. This time around however, a Korean production company Tewon Media [...]

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A special treat to all Macross Frontier’s fan! The official Japanese website of the Macross Frontier science-fiction anime series is streaming a dance choreography video for the entire “Interstellar Flight” song! The video teaches the steps for the debut single of Ranka Lee, the aspiring singer character played by new voice actress Megumi Nakajima! Will [...]

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Definitely an eye-candy for Japanese figurines collectors! The Moon Phase Diary website reports that Japanese television network Kidstation will broadcast the entire Akiba-chan series of ten 5 minute long “figu-mation” stop-motion animation anime episodes beginning July 24th. The comedy series made its public debut last summer when episodes 3 & 5 were officially released on [...]

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As we had announced this awesome news last April here, now we have more updated news on what’s coming your way this summer at the JUMP Super Anime Tour 2008 in all 10 major cities of Japan!

A new episode of the Dragon Ball fighting action story will screen with an original concept by manga creator [...]

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… and I was thinking of going to Akihabara today… lucky me that I stayed at home & read Jojo instead..

At least 17 people were injured, and 6 have been confirmed as dead, after a truck collided with pedestrians and the truck’s driver allegedly stabbed people at Tokyo’s Akihabara shopping district on Sunday afternoon. A [...]

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Source 1: Gigazine
Source 2: EuroGamer
Source 3: Kotaku
3 sources full of news and pics of the latest official Street Fighter IV animes! The animes are actually 2D anime promotional video for the home versions of the much anticipated Street Fighter IV game. While this press promotional video itself will not be in the Xbox 360 and [...]

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Saw this news today 

The production notes for the recent horror films Shutter and The Strangers both reveal that America’s Vertigo Entertainment is developing a remake of the Death Note franchise and has hired Vlas and Charles Parlapanides to write the screenplay. In Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s hit Death Note manga, a teenager finds a [...]

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