From Ningin: Two movies that I’m looking forward to watching are GANTZ and Studio Ghibli’s The Borrowers. Fortunately for me, a new trailer was released for each of these movies that has raised my anticipation even further. More »

From Ningin: A 14-year-old boy from Nogoya, Japan has been arrested recently for uploading leaked manga volumes on to the popular video streaming site YouTube. Suspected of leaking One Piece, Naruto, Major and Gintama, the boy is reported to have uploaded the illegal content from December 2009 to February 2010. More »

A teaser has been released of the highly anticipated live action movie of the manga, Kimi Ni Todoke. More »

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From Ningin: If you’re a teenager in Japan and you haven’t heard of the hit anime and manga series, One Piece, then you must be living under a rock, in a cave, somewhere on a far away island! One Piece is currently one of the biggest crazes among Japanese youth, and it looks like Schick Japan is taking advantage of it. More »

From Ningin: Any Dragon Ball Z fans out there? Come on, I know there has to be some! Well, are you ready to relive the Dragon Ball Z experience all over again? Well, if you’re in the United States and get the Nicktoons channel, then you’re in luck! More »

From Ningin: KT Systems has announced that it will be opening what it says will be Japan’s first ever boys-love bar in the Tokyo Akihabara otaku shopping district. KT Systems has emphasized that MiracleJumP, as it will be called, will not be a gay bar. More »

From Ningin: FanimeCon, the anime and manga convention, will be taking place in San Jose, California this month from May 28th to May 31st. Well, all of you anime music fans will be excited to know that FanimeCon has just announced that the Japanese rock band, FLOW, will be performing at the event. More »

From Ningin: Since its release on March 4, Oricon reports that the 57th volume of the popular manga series One Piece has sold 2.282 million copies as of last week. Not only are the sales extremely impressive but it also means that this volume of One Piece is the number-one selling book since Oricon began recording sales in 2008. More »

From Ningin: The next Gundam anime, titled Mokei Senshi Gunpla Builders Beginning G, will be about gunpla (the practice of building Gundam models) instead of the actual fighting mechas. More »

GANTZ, a popular manga, has been filming a live action for quite a while, and it will be released in 2011. Kazunari Ninomiya, of Arashi, and Kenichi Matsuyama, better known as L, both star in the film as Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato respectively. The basis of the story is “Two young men die on the tracks of a subway station only to be summoned back to life by a mysterious black sphere known as “Gantz.” More »

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