Production I.G Confirms Involvement in Animated Dante's Inferno Project (Updated)

Kite's Yasuomi Umetsu, Ergo Proxy's Shukou Murase, others helm 6-part project

Xseed to Import The Sky Crawlers Game for U.S. Wii

Arcade flight simulator from Bandai Namco, Ace Combat team to ship in 2009

MangaGamer.com Acquires Higurashi: When They Cry Visual Novels (Updated)

First part of game series planned for English release at end of October

Viz Acquires Bleach Movie 2

Viz Media has announced plans to release the Bleach: Diamond Dust Rebelion motion picture, the series’ second theatrical feature from 2007, on American DVD on September 9. The movie will receive limited theatrical screenings at San Francisco’s J-Pop Center on August 19-20. Source: Anime News Network

Viz to Blitzkreig One Piece

Viz Media has announced plans to catch up the US release of the One Piece manga with the Japanese collected release by releasing One Piece manga volumes 24-53 from January through June 2010 - an average of five books per month. Shonen Jump USA magazine will begin concurrently publishing new chapters of Eiichiro Oda’s One [...]

JAST to Distribute Nitroplus Games

Eroge translating company JAST USA has announced a partnership with Japanese multimedia entertainment producer Nitroplus Co., Ltd. to distribute English language versions of Nitroplus games. The popular 2003 PC game Zanma Taisei Demonbane will be the first release from the partnership. The H.P. Lovecraft inspired erotic mecha anime adventure game has been ported to the [...]

Happy 4th Of July From ENI

Happy 4th Of July From ENI

Transformers Projected to Have Biggest Worldwide Gross of 09 in 2 Weeks

Transformers Projected to Have Biggest Worldwide Gross of 09 in 2 Weeks

Universal Looks At Asteroids

Universal Looks At Asteroids

Press Release: TezukaInEnglish.com and DMP present Swallowing the Earth

Review of the Day: B. Ichi Volume One

Review of the Day

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B. Ichi Volume One Mangaka: Atsushi Ohkubo Genre: Shounen Licensed by: Yen Press Reviewed by: D.M. Evans Yen has a knack for licensing unusual stuff and B. Ichi is definitely that. It opens in Toykyo, Japon (misspellings are deliberate) with the arrival of a young girl on a Vespa, Mana. Mana has a strange quirk. She’s driving around the country, following the advice of fortunetellers, and has an obsession with earning commendations from people. She literally runs into a young man named Shotaro, who is even quirkier than Mana. For instance, he has a fascination with a TV show character named Justice, yet has no conception of a weekly TV schedule. He’s sort of the overly optimistic man-child archetype. Go read the full review!

• Kujibiki Unbalance Volume One

Cursed with bad luck for his entire life, freshman Chihiro Enamoto is just about to run into some big changes this school year. When Chihiro and childhood friend, Tokino, manage (by luck!) to get into the prestigious Rikkyoin Academy High School, it's only the start of things to come, not the least of which being the pair's unlikely lottery prize of becoming the president and vice-president elects of the student council! The two soon meet up with the other council candidates - genius girl, Renko, and unlikely elementary girl, Koyuki - setting the stage for a student council unlike any other.