The manga series “Kaibutsu-kun” is getting its first live-action drama adaptation. NTV plans to broadcast a drama series based on the popular comic, with Arashi’s Satoshi Ohno (29) playing the lead.
The manga, originally serialized during the second half of the 1960s, was written by Fujiko Fujio A, one half of the mangaka duo responsible for [...]

Yoshito Usui (51), the mangaka behind the popular “Crayon Shin-chan” comic,

This year’s 17th issue of Shueisha’s You magazine has revealed that a

Konami Digital Entertainment has announced on Friday that Guinness World Records has recognized

“H?kago Teatime,” a two-CD mini-album “performed” by the characters of the K-On! anime series, became the first anime character CD release to top either the weekly album or single chart of the Oricon survey firm. The CD release sold 67,000 copies to debut at #1 on the latest weekly album chart. No other album credited [...]

Otakon 2009 (taking place July 17-19 in Baltimore) has

TOKYO —
Actress Haruka Ayase has taken on the challenge of voice actress for the lead role of Haruka in Fuji TV’s 50th anniversary CG anime movie, “Hottarake no Shima: Haruka no Maho no Kagami,” to be released nationwide August 22. Appearing together with Ayase at a press conference held in Tokyo for the movie was [...]