If Michael and Janet Jackson’s “Scream” was the most expensive music video ever produced, in world of Anime there’s Steamboy — which defeated Akira for having the highest production costs. Though both anime movies came from the same director.
Steamboy is a 2004 Japanese animated film, produced by Sunrise, and directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo. The film was released in Japan on July 17, 2004. With an initial production cost of $26,000,000, Steamboy is the most expensive full length Japanese animated movie made to date. Additionally, the film was …

Fushigi Yuugi (aka Mysterious/Curious play) is one of the anime series that is well known for having a lot of mature/adult scenes. Hence, a lot of clips were cut in the show, with scenes from the pairs: Miaka/Tamahome, Soi/Nakago, and Tamahome/Nakago — yes, there are shounen-ai scenes between those two (the other one was when Nakago licked Tama), but it’s not exactly as what you think. Others said Nakago has a liking for Tamahome in a way that he’s jealous of him.
Just for some added info, Nakago did knee/kick …

Yoko Kanno is a very well-known composer, though never in her life she became a seiyuu… not until this time.
The official Japanese website for Studio 4°C’s Genius Party Beyond anthology of film shorts has confirmed that composer Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Macross Plus and Frontier) made a voice-acting cameo in Koji Morimoto’s “Dimension Bomb” short. Although Kanno’s music can be heard in dozens of anime projects, this is the first known anime voice-acting role that Kanno has taken.
The British electronic music group Juno Reactor is composing the music …

The first live action adaptation of the shōjo manga series by Yoko Kamio premiered in year 1995, starring Uchida Yuki in the main role.
It was then became a popular Taiwanese Drama called Meteor Garden (2001). In the Philippines, the four main male characters, with a band called F4, had a sold-out concert. Due to the popularity of the series throughout Asia, two sequels, Meteor Rain and Meteor Garden II, were produced.
On October, 2005 a Japanese live-action drama series was created. Season one of the live-action drama ended in December …

On 22 April 2002, on the special issue of Asian Hero in TIME Magazine, Doraemon was selected as one of the 22 Asian Heroes. Being the only cartoon character selected, Doraemon was described as “The Cuddliest Hero in Asia”. While in March 2008, Japan’s Foreign Ministry appointed Doraemon as the nation’s first “anime ambassador”. Ministry spokesman explained the novel decision as an attempt to help people in other countries to understand Japanese anime better and to deepen their interest in Japanese culture. The Foreign Ministry action confirms that Doraemon has …