Sands of Destruction will be a mixed media project here too. Sega signed a licensing deal which gives Funimation the rights to distribute, broadcast, and merchandise the first thirteen episodes of the anime series in North America.

Jigoku Shoujo (known as Hell Girl in North America) is an anime series where a girl is summoned to torment people after a name is posted on a mysterious website known as the Jigoku Tsushin. Compile Heart’s Nintendo DS game has players investigate the mystery behind Hell Girl by chatting with characters from the series. [...]

Marvelous who is waist deep in licensed anime titles released a short gameplay clip from their upcoming xxxHolic game. Basing a game off of xxxHolic is a tough challenge to take on, how do you make a game where the main character does chores for a witch? The answer is you don’t. Marveolus designed their [...]

Starting this week anime titles from Geneon and Funimation will be available to purchase on the Xbox Live Video Marketplace if you are in the USA. The first batch of shows are:
Guyver Trinity Blood Gunslinger Girl Speed Grapher Basilisk Saiyuki Kiddy Grade Gankutsuou – The Count of Monte Cristo Desert Punk Last Exile Rumbling Hearts [...]

More anime is coming to Xbox Live starting on June 12th when FUNimation, Geneon and ADV Films begin selling their shows on the Xbox 360. Anime that will air on the Xbox Live Video Marketplace are:
 
FUNimation
Samurai 7
Trinity Blood
Gunslinger Girl
Basilisk
 
Geneon Entertainment
Gun Sword
Last Exile
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Lupin the 3rd
Akira (the movie in HD)
 
Microsoft has not [...]

Coming out for the Nintendo Wii in summer 2007 is Negima!? Neo-Pactio Fight, a four player fighting game that looks sort of like Power Stone. You can play with ten of the girls from the magic academy in the game’s original story. Probably one or less people actually care about Negima coming over to the [...]

Adult Swim will begin airing Crayon Shin Chan on Saturday August 19th at 11:30 PM. The show will also air from August 21-31 (Monday-Thursday) at 12:30 AM. Crayon Shin Chan is a comedy anime about a mischievous five year old child who does whatever he can to annoy his parents. Only six episodes will be [...]

The FUNimation panel at Comic Con announced three titles that are recommended for the masses who want an introductory of this growing form of entertainment.  The titles include "Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles", "Crayon Shin-Chan," and "Witchblade."  These titles highlights the past "mecha" style of anime in Robotech, the present form of sophisticated interplay of language [...]

In the revised schedule there is a “mystery show” airing on Saturday nights right after Bleach at 12:30 AM. The big secret is actually, Trinity Blood a post apocalyptic anime series set in the middle of a war between humans and vampires. In the first episode we’re introduced to Able Nightroad a clumsy priest who [...]

Piracy has been a rising problem for entertainment media for a number of years. While the MPAA and RIAA are gong after end users and pirate organizations, the anime industry has a different approach. Titles are typically released by fansubbers way before they are licensed outside of Japan and there is “a new generation born [...]