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According to Uki Atsuya’s blog, the sequel to Cencoroll has been confirmed and is currently in the scripting and storyboarding process.  The sequel is currently known under the working title Cencoroll 2 and will be near the same running time as the first film. Cencoroll debuted in 2009 to wide critical acclaim based off of [...]

Funimation has announced its latest marketing effort with rich media developer iVidopia in which both companies have designed and developed the Corpse Princess Talk2Me ad unit for integration into ad-supported applications in the iTunes App Store and Android Marketplace. The ad features access to clips from the series and links to the distributor’s social media [...]

Considering the rumors swirling around the state of the distributor, it seems that Media Blasters CEO John Sirabella has had enough regarding the speculation, which has reached a fever pitch in recent weeks due to recent delays of some of their current releases as well as recent layoffs, leading to speculation that the company might [...]

As expected and previously reported, the first trailer for the forthcoming Super Robot Wars OG – The Inspector ~ anime series is now online at the show’s official site and can be viewed below via YouTube.  The series is based off of the long-running mecha-oriented strategy video game series developed by Banpresto and will be [...]

A new GoldenBoy serial will debut in the pages of Japan’s Business Jump magazine on September 15th in Japan and will be titled Golden Boy II-Sasurai no Obenkyô Yaro Geinôkai Ôabare Henrietta but it is currently not known whether it will be an all-new series or a one-shot story.  The new story will reportedly center [...]

Animax Japan will feature a tribute to recently deceased director/producer Satoshi Kon by screening Tokyo Godfathers and his most recent film in Paprika along with running an all day tribute on September 4th, pre-empting the network’s 24 hour schedule.  The director’s last film in The Dream Machine will be completed by the staff that was [...]

Viz Media has confirmed on its Facebook page that it holds the license to the second season of Vampire Knight in Vampire Knight: Guilty.  While the distributor previously announced the license to the Vampire Knight anime adaptation during Comic-Con in July, it did not specify if it had acquired both seasons.The Vampire Knight anime adaptation’s [...]

Just caught this over on The Number of the Blog, and I almost ruined my pants in excitement.  Video game inspired metal band Powerglove has posted a preview of their forthcoming album Saturday Morning Apocalypse, due out on September 28th via E1 Records.  The samples here feature reinterpretations of such classics as the X-Men animated [...]

A 2ch user has confirmed that the conclusion of the XXXHolic omake DVD given away with the purchase of the three XXXHolic one-shots published this summer (Shonen Magazine with XXXHOLiC Rou oneshot Magazine SPECIAL with Holitsuba oneshot Bessatsu Shonen Magazine with the first chapter of XXXHOLiC) has confirmed another episode of the XXXHolic Rou OAD [...]

The 1989 OVA Riding Bean is now available on Hulu in subbed and dubbed versions, with licensing being handled by Animeigo/eOne Entertainment.  The single episode is based off of the prematurely canceled manga anthology written by Kenichi Sonoda and was also used as the template for the successor OVA/manga series in Gunsmith Cats, which Sonoda [...]