The anime adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist author Hiromu Arakawa's agricultural manga Silver Spoon is getting ready to join the noitaminA block in Japan this summer, and now we finally have a better look at the show in action. Inspired by Arakawa's u...

Anime Expo attendees who are also fans of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn have something special to look forward to at this year's convention. AX officially announced the addition of director Kazuhiro Furuhashi as a Guest of Honor for AX2013. In addition t...

The folks at New People Cinema are getting ready to kick off another really cool event this summer as part of the 2013 J-Pop Summit Festival. Exclusive premieres will highlight the first annual Japan Film Festival of San Francisco, which is set to tak...

Man at Arms is a cool little web series that has swordsmith Tony Swatton forging real versions of weapons from games, cartoons, and more. Swatton and his crew have tackled weapons ranging from Finn's Golden Sword from Adventure Time to Sora's Keyblade...

As something of a follow-up to last week’s news that Monster would be getting the live-action treatment courtesy of Guillermo Del Toro, the Weinstein Co. announced it has obtained worldwide distribution rights to a live-action adaptation of Yasuomi Um...

Sam Pinansky of Yomiuri TV Enterprise appeared on the Anime News Network ANNCast on May 3 to talk about “Anime Sols,” a new web site he helped found that might just change the way anime is sold in the west. The goal of Sols is to open up an avenue for...

From Yuasa's Kick-Heart project to the upcoming Anime Sols video site, crowd-funding has been a big deal in our corner of the woods lately. Even in some of the smallest niches of the fandom, people are toying with the idea. The story I'm about to tell...

“Anime Bancho,” the experimental Youtube Channel started by CoMix Wave Films at the end of 2012 scored a direct hit with Inferno Cop , a terrifying frappe of absurdist humor and non-sequitors that, like gdgd Fairies  and Straight Title Robot Anim...