Awesome illustrator Mikimoto Haruhiko who created characters for Macross (SDF), Gundam 0080 and Aim for the Top! Gunbuster, just to name a few, would be the illustrator for the upcoming manga that would be searilised in Kadokawa Shoten’s Macross Ace. The manga, which is titled “Super Dimension Macross The First” and was announced in their [...]

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Seems that the economic crisis does not spare even the Japanese studio. As reported by ANN

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Mamoru Oshii’s The Sky Crawlers has won three separate awards at this year’s Sitges film festival, which is considered to be the most important festival in the world for fantasy cinema. The film was the only anime screened in the festival’s main “Official Fantàstic” program. A panel of three film critics gave The Sky Crawlers [...]

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via Sankaku Complex

ZOMGWTF????

The hype of the new Street Fighter anime got a new twist when it was announced that the anime would be a “season long” one, and would be helmed by the famed studio Studio 4°C

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ZOMG!!! Finally the trailer has been released! The official Raki Suta website has released THIS streaming trailer for teh new OVA. Do I hear Kagamin fan cheering in the background? Yeah, I sure did.
It also includes an earlier CM for the project. Oh god, I can’t wait for this. Only 5 MORE DAYS!! [...]

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In a news that was greeted with great joy (surprisingly) to many hardcore anime fans in the US of A, Toonami finally breathed it’s last breath

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Disgraced former livedoor founder Harie Takafumi aka Horiemon told said in an interview that Sony should sell the PS3 business to Microsoft, and instead, focus on other things like making movies. He even claims that if he had bought out Sony, it would already had happened.

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A court has ordered the employer of a dead live-in janitor to pay ¥4,200,000 in overtime payments to him, for time he spent drinking and indulging in his plamo modelling hobbies. The company did at least get out of paying the other 36 million yen demanded.

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Yes, you heard me right, it’s a Lucky Star printer! Made exclusively by Brother (no, it’s nothing to do with siblings, it’s a company), it’s actually a multipurpose printer targeted at doujin circles who, after finishing up doing their doujins, can print it out to see the finished product.

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CELEBRATING THE DIVERSITY OF JAPANESE POP CULTURE!Singapore, 03 September 2008 – For the first time ever in South East Asia, Singapore will celebrate the diversity of Japanese Pop Culture.Taking place on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2008 (Saturday and Sunday) at the Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Center, Anime [...]

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