The X Button - Blown Away Overwhelmed and outgunned, Todd takes on an insurmountable game lineup as well as the mysteries of Mega Man 9 and the reasons why everyone should play Bangai- O Spirits...

The Ballad of Narayama AnimEigo 1983 / Color / 1:78 anamorphic widescreen / 130 min. / Narayama bushiko / Street Date June 10, 2008 / 24.98 Starring Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Aki Takejo, Tonpei Hidari, Seiji Kurasaki, Kaoru Shimamori, Ryutaro Tatsumi, Junko Takada, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Mitsuko Baisho Cinematography Masao Tochizawa Production Design Nobutaka Yoshino Art Direction Tadataka Yoshino...

Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 8:49 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Headquarters Library, Barrett Room. The Japanese Anime and Manga Society will vote for the anime to watch. Signed permission slip required...

Click the image for a full-size version of this strip. The X Button - Blown Away Overwhelmed and outgunned, Todd takes on an insurmountable game lineup as well as the mysteries of Mega Man 9 and the reasons why everyone should play Bangai- O Spirits...

TreasureNet, Inc.'s Fujyoshi.jp website for Japanese boys-love fans (fujoshi) has launched an original live-action drama series series called Love Bridge on Monday...

These programs are scheduled at a Metropolitan Library System branch. For a list of all programs and events, go to www.metrolibrary.org. WednesdayWhat: Scottish Gaelic language learners groupWhen: 7 p.m.Where: Midwest CityAges: 10 and older ThursdayWhat: Children reading to dogs When: 3:30 p.m. Where: The Village Ages: Children who can read What: Anime ClubWhen: 4 p.m. read more...

I met Daisuke "Dice-K" Enomoto in Star City, Russia, in August 2006. Enomoto, 37, is slight with tired eyes and a shock of bleach-blond dyed hair. His idea of space travel comes from comic books and Star Wars. He grew up as a self-described otaku, coding his own computer games and dreaming of spaceor, at least, space as it was portrayed in Star Wars and manga. His favorite anime show,...

Toei Animation has confirmed on its official Japanese website for the RoboDz anime that the series will premiere on the Disney XD channel in the United States in February of 2009. Disney XD is the rebranded, male-targeted version of Toon Disney channel which will also launch in February...

The ICv2 retail news source estimates that Masashi Kishimoto 's Naruto volume 30 ( Viz Media ) was the #3 bestselling graphic novel in American direct sales during July with 3,816 copies, based on figures provided by Diamond Comic Distributors...

This is a busy week. Well, it's more accurate to denote next week as the busy one, as that is when we shall be flooded by games with anime themes and made-in-Japan relevance. In fact, it's so much that I'm skipping an Extra Lives entry this time around...

The time-traveling, supernatural adventures of middle school student Kagome Higure recently came to an end. In the manga series Inuyasha, Kagome slips back in time to the Warring States period of the late 15th to late 16th centuries...

Warner Bros. A tinge of Anakin Skywalker's coming dark side clearly is visible in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Yet the animated adventure mostly harks back to the fun, swashbuckling times of the original Star Wars trilogy...

Asian-targeted network iaTV Tuesday said it has reached a program acquisition and strategic ad sales partnership with Los Angeles-based production company Tokyopop representing the companys animation/magna-oriented entertainment...

NEW YORK, AUGUST 19, 2008 iaTV ® (www. iaTV.tv), America's only 24/7 television network for Asian pop culture, today announced a program acquisition deal and strategic ad sales partnership with TOKYOPOP ® (www. TOKYOPOP.com), the leading publisher and distributor of manga-oriented entertainment...

Organic Hobby, Inc in proudly introduces its new and original product for the U.S. market, Bamboo Blade "Tamaki Kawazoe." The kendo prodigy "Tamaki Kawazoe," is based on a Japanese manga series known as " Bamboo Blade," written by Masahiro Totsuka, and illustrated by Aguri Igarashi. The series tells the story of a Toraji Ishida, a luckless high school Kendo instructor, who is challenged by...

The official Japanese website for Studio 4°C's Genius Party Beyond anthology of film shorts has confirmed that composer Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Macross Plus and Frontier ) made a voice-acting cameo in Koji Morimoto's "Dimension Bomb" short...

Anaheim, California (August 18, 2008) Want to re-experience all the excitement that was Anime Expo® 2008? Want a preview of all the anime goodness for the highly anticipated 2009 convention, July 2-5, 2009 at the Los Angeles Convention Center?

Last year, Region Free held the auction at on their website at regionfreejan.com, but this year the auction will take place at their new, still-in-development anime/manga drawing site, AnimeStyle Pro (animestylepro.com). Please visit the site to view the works and for details on how to bid...

19 August 2008, Singapore An all-star creative team including Ryosuke Tei as director and Yasufumi Soejima as storyboard artist, as well as Singapore's illustration and concept art studio Imaginary Friends Studios as web manga production house, are teaming up with Singapore-based animation studio Peach Blossom Media to produce Animax-asia 's first original animation production in high...

Shueisha 's Jumpland electronic manga site has posted the first chapter of the Bakuman manga from the Death Note writer/artist duo of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata for free on Monday...