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Anime Headline News

Death Note Anime Available For Download, Coming to Anime Expo

VIZ Media has announced the availability of DEATH NOTE on a download-to-own basis beginning June 28, 2007, on TotalVid.com. The first 16 subtitled episodes will be available at launch, with one new episode added each week thereafter. TotalVid.com offers consumers unlimited access to thousands of enthusiast, special interest and instructional videos in categories such as anime, action sports, martial arts and travel on a subscription basis for $9.95 per month. Individual DEATH NOTE episodes will also be available on a download-to-own basis for $1.99 each.

Anime Events

Florida Supercon 2007

By Guest (not verified) | Friday, June 22, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: June 22, 2007

Florida Supercon is a multi-format convention for comic book, sci-fi, animation and anime fans taking place June 22-24, 2007 in Ft. Lauderdale. FL. The show will include celebrity guests, writers, artists, filmmakers, vendors, guests, Q&As, film festival, parties, costume contest, giveaways, anime programming, manga, cosplay, workshops, panels and more. For more information and the current guest list, visit www.floridasupercon.com.

Visual Headline News

Bandai Visual USA To Bring First U.S. High-Def Anime Title To Anime Expo

Bandai Visual USA Inc. announced it will be participating at Anime Expo 2007 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California, June 29-July 2, 2007. Bandai Visual USA will be offering FREEDOM VOLUME 1, which will mark the first commercial availability of a high-definition anime title in North America. Bandai Visual USA will be located at booth #1605.

Shuhei Morita, the director of FREEDOM, is expected to be on-hand at the Bandai Visual USA booth, and is scheduled to appear on an industry panel.

Mobile Headline News

Sony Pictures TV International Launches Animax Mobile

Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) announced the launch of Animax Mobile in Canada and Australia to kickoff a global roll-out of a "dedicated mobile version" of Sony's popular Japanese anime channel that currently can be seen across Asia, Central Europe, Germany, and Latin America on TV via cable and satellite providers. Animax Mobile is specifically designed for mobile TV viewing using mobile streaming technology and targets users ages 14-34.

Studio Events

Anime Studio Contest

By Guest (not verified) | Friday, June 1, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: June 1, 2007

Anime Studio Contest

e frontier America Inc., is proud to announce our first official Anime Studio animation contest! Anime Studio 5 is your complete 2D animation program for creating movies, cartoons, anime or cut out animations. Create your own desktop animated shorts in the style of SouthParkStudios.com and JibJab.com, or use Anime Studio to produce full-length animation for film, video or streaming over the web. Anime Studio allows digital enthusiasts at home and professionals in the studio to bring their imagination to life!

Anime Headline News

Azureus to Distribute Anime from Geneon Ent.

Azureus, a global leader in aggregating and distributing long-form, high quality video via the Internet's most popular media peer-to-peer (P2P) application, struck a content agreement with Geneon Ent. to release popular anime series on its digital media platform. The agreement includes an episode of LUPIN III, "To Be or Nazi Be" (episode 3) that couldn't be aired on TV because of its outrageous storyline. Azureus will make the programs available on its video sharing site, Vuze (www.vuze.com), a premier broadband distribution platform.

Anime Headline News

U.K.-Based Anime Network GONG Launches in 36 Countries

The new anime network, GONG, dedicated to teens and adults, has launched as the first international on-demand, online Japanese animation channel in Europe and North America.

GONG is the only on-demand Anime channel, available anywhere, anytime, on any screen (TV, mobile, Internet, VOD), in 36 countries across Europe and North America, offering manga and anime fans top-rated and popular anime series and movies.

Anime Events

Third Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration

By Guest (not verified) | Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: May 19, 2007

eigoMANGA is producing The Anime Pavilion at the Third Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration.

The Anime Pavilion celebrates the otaku (anime fan) culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Anime fans all over the Bay Area are invited to a day-long programming lineup of live Japanese rock (jrock) performances, an anime theme runway fashion show featuring original anime clothing lines from Japanese and Bay Area fashion designers, an anime cosplay masquerade, as well as additional features from the Third Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration.

Channel Headline News

Sony TV Launches Anime Channel in Germany

Sony Pictures Television Int'l (SPTI) announced that its anime channel, Animax, is set to launch in Germany. The announcement was made following the signing of an agreement with Unity Media, the first distribution partner for Animax in the country. The channel will commence broadcasting from early June 2007 and will be available to digital pay-tv subscribers in the German regions of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, which have more than five million cable households. Further roll out of the channel through other distribution partners is to follow over the coming months.

Anime Headline News

SCI FI Adds Anime Block of Original Late-Night Programming

The SCI FI Channel will starting airing Ani-Monday, a weekly anime programming block, Monday nights from 11:00 pm to 1:00 am beginning June 11, 2007. Ani-Monday will feature a collection of movies, series and shorts from Starz Media's anime distribution arm, Manga. This also marks SCI FI's first foray into original late-night programming.

Creative Headline News

Hawley Joins 808inc. as Design Director

Chris Hawley has joined award-winning creative and production studio 808inc as design director.

Prior to joining 808inc., Hawley led the creative team at A.D. Vision, the number one multimedia producer and distributor of anime content in the U.S. He was responsible for hiring and managing a team of 12 designers and assisted in the early stages of hiring, training and development of a manga design team.

Anime Events

Manga to Anime: From Astro Boy to Spirited Away Panel

By Guest (not verified) | Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: April 21, 2007

Following the screening of Mamoru Oshii's movie, TACHIGUI: THE AMAZING LIVES OF THE FAST FOOD GRIFTERS, on April 14, at the Cherry Blossom Anime Marathon, the Smithsonian Institution-owned Frees Gallery of Art will welcome Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, president/ceo of Production I.G, as special guest in a panel discussion entitled, "Manga to Anime: From ASTRO BOY to SPIRITED AWAY." Focusing on manga and anime, two of Japan's biggest cultural emissaries, and the effect these pop-cultural creations have on American markets and trends, the discussion will be hosting other leading experts and industry vete

Anime Headline News

Lost's Doc Now Racer X

LOST star Matthew Fox is in closing talks to take on the role of Racer X in Larry and Andy Wachowski's big screen adaptation of anime classic, SPEED RACER, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Additionally, Australian actor Kick Gurry (Alex Proyas' GARAGE DAYS) is up for the role of Sparky, Speed's spacey mechanic. Fox and Gurry would join a cast that includes Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman.

Anime Events

Aniki Convention

By Guest (not verified) | Friday, April 6, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: April 6, 2007

Aniki Convention is a new event in Germany with focus on Japan, anime, manga and Japanese culture. The AnikiCon will be held for the first time in the Maritim Hotel Bonn (one of the biggest congress hotels in Germany). The Anikicon is a joint venture from Europe's biggest Science Fiction, Fantasy and Anime Convention Staff experts. For more information, visit www.anikiCon.de.

Anime Events

Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) 2007

By Guest (not verified) | Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: March 22, 2007

The Tokyo International Anime Fair (known as "TAF") is the world's largest anime exhibition. Held every spring at Tokyo Big Sight, the exhibition features a "trade fair" with booth exhibits by anime-related companies, "events" including spectacular stage performances and theater movie showings/displays, and the "Tokyo Anime Awards" in which outstanding anime works are presented with awards. Every year the exhibition attracts the attention of people throughout the world for its extensive program.

Anime Headline News

Adult Swim Gets Blood +

The new anime series BLOOD +, based on the anime feature BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE, is set to premiere on Saturday, March 10, at 12:30 am (ET, PT) on Adult Swim. BLOOD + is from exec producers Hideo Katsumata and Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and features music from Academy Award-winning composer, Hans Zimmer. BLOOD + is a half-hour anime series and is produced by Aniplex, Inc., in association with Sony Pictures Television.

Anime Events

American Anime Awards

By Guest (not verified) | Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: February 24, 2007

The New York Comic Con will host the first-ever American Anime Awards. The awards ceremony will take place at the New Yorker Hotel in midtown Manhattan.

The American Anime Awards celebrates Japanese animation (anime), which has grown into a global entertainment phenomenon. The awards showcase the very best anime to make its way to North America and the winners will be chosen by anime fans themselves.

Anime Headline News

Anime Voice Actor Dean Turner Passes Away

Actor Dean Turner, who voiced many English dubs of anime series, died Dec. 28, 2006, at Kaiser Moanalua Medical Center in Hawaii, reports BCDB.COM. He was 84. Turner died of respiratory failure after fighting diabetes for several years, said his partner of 40 years, actor Richard Pellett.

Turner voiced Lee and the Secretary Of Commerce in GASARAKI (1998), the Department Chief in HEPPOKO [SILLY] ANIMATION EXCEL SAGA (QUACK EXPERIMENTAL ANIME EXCEL SAGA) (1999), the Maitre D in A.D. POLICE: TO PROTECT AND SERVE (1999), and a driver and council member in NOIR (2001).

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