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San Francisco, CA, December 16, 2008 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, today announced the availability of action-packed episodes from some of the most anticipated animated series have come to the iTunes® Store in Canada (www.iTunes.ca) English dubbed versions of NARUTO [...]

MONTREAL, CANADA – December 10, 2008 – Anime News Network, the world’s largest anime web publication, has today released its first full anime video program for legal online streaming: the hit science fiction anime Kite Liberator. The show is the first full-length anime to be distributed by Anime News Network’s new Video Player portal, which [...]

ICv2 is reporting that Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, Ponyo on the Cliff By the Sea, will be released in the US early next year. The film, which opened in Japan in July, outperformed all of Miyazaki’s previous releases–with the exception of Spirited Away, that is–earning nearly $115 million at the box office in 2008. Not [...]

San Francisco, CA, NOVEMBER 17, 2008 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced an innovative and unprecedented multimedia plan to provide near-simultaneous Japan-U.S. release of NARUTO, one of the most popular Japanese animated and manga properties in the world. This [...]

Burbank, CA, October 13, 2008 – Following on the heels of a series of standing room-only voice acting workshops at the recent 2008 New York Anime Festival, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, a leading full-service audio post production company and producer of original entertainment content, has announced an intensive one-day voice acting workshop taking place at the [...]

Attention, Beantown anime lovers: the annual Anime After Dark festival arrives at the Somerville Theater this weekend. This twelve-hour event features classic titles such as Grave of the Fireflies, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, and Millenium Actress as well as recent festival hits and the stunning Tekkon Kinkreet. The first film shows at 7:00 PM [...]

Bleach: Memories of Nobody reaches the frozen north for a one-night theatrical engagement.

If you didn’t make it to New York Anime Fest this year, never fear–the intrepid Deb Aoki covered everything, from the licensing announcements to the industry panels to the outrageous costumes. Perhaps the most telling thing about this year’s convention is how few publishers actually attended. Aurora, CMX, DMP, Go! Comi, Tokyopop, and Viz were [...]

Burbank, CA, September 25, 2008 – Bang Zoom! Entertainment, a leading full-service audio post production company and producer of original entertainment content, recently prepared the highly anticipated new anime series Gurran Lagann for its North American broadcast debut on Sci Fi Channel. The series debuted July 28th as part of the network’s Ani–Monday programming block [...]