Several ToHeart2 voice anime cast members, including Nana Mizuki, Aya Ueto, and Yurika Ochiai, have recently received death threats.  Ochiai blogged on Tuesday that her agency was notified by police that there had been death threats targeted at her.  She was told of the threats on about seven different occasions.  Investigators have been to her [...]

The sixth season of the baseball television anime Major will premiere on April 3, 2010.  Shonen Sunday magazine will officially announce the premiere date in their Wednesday issue.
The comedy drama is based on a long-running manga created by Takuya Mitsuda in which a pitcher joins major league baseball to follow in his father’s footsteps.
Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-04/major-baseball-tv-anime-6th-season-to-debut-in-april

Manga creator Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball) and manga artist Masakazu Katsura (Video Girl Ai), who had previously worked together on a manga for Jump Square magazine, are teaming up once again to launch a new manga mini-series called Jiya.  Young Jump magazine will premiere the manga in its December 10th issue.
Jiya is said to be [...]

Following yesterday’s report of the Ono Natsume’s manga House of Five Leaves getting an anime adaptation, the official website has opened. Known in Japanese as Saraiya Goyou, the TV series is slated to air some time in 2010 in the “Noitamina” timeslot.
The site is still sparse at the moment, but it does feature a very [...]

Leiji Matsumoto and Think Corporation have produced a new music video for Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”.  The video combines the British rock band’s song with Matsumoto and Sunsoft’s manga, Out of Galaxy Koshika.
Beginning December 23, the video will be featured on Japanese cell phone sites and then released at the Apple iTunes store in Japan on [...]

Funimation has announced that it has appointed Chris Moujaes to the position of Director of Original Entertainment with the purpose of co-producing original anime titles. Under this initiative, Funimation and Moujaes will “focus [their] efforts on the acquisition and development of a slate of original anime titles based on major intellectual properties.”
While Funimation is certainly [...]

Funimation has launched a number of new anime on its streaming site, including series that have been licensed but are yet to be released on DVD, such as Bamboo Blade and most notably Casshern Sins.
The reason I focus on Casshern Sins is because it was a big surprise announcement at Otakon 2009, and is the [...]

A second season has been green-lit for the live action television adaption of Hiroshi Motomiya’s manga, Salaryman Kintaro. The show premiered last year in October and earned the TV Asahi network its highest ratings of any Friday night drama.  Motomiya’s manga was first released in 1994 and then restarted in 2005.  It has been adapted [...]

The KDDI telecommunications company, the Kadokawa Group, and the Upfront Group are producing a new series of anime shorts based on the comedy manga Kaitō Reinya.  Reina Tanaka, the inspiration for the show’s title character, will play the title character of Reinya.  Takahiro Yoshimatsu (Slayer, Trigun) will act as the chief director and story border [...]

The science fiction anime classic Prince Planet is now widely available for viewing in North America for the first time since 1979.  The television show is an English language adaptation of the Japanese anime series Yuusei Shonen Papii that ran from 1965 to 1966.  Over forty-five episodes of Prince Planet will be streamed online at [...]