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Kiminori Wakasugi&rsquo;s manga <em>Minna! Esper Dayo! (All Esper Dayo!)</em> has a movie in the works which is due for release on September 04th. To whet the collective appetite of the manga&rsquo;s fans, a teaser has been released. &nbsp; <strong>Synopsis</strong> <em>Yoshiro...

A trailer for the upcoming <em>Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie </em>has been released on the GiTS channel and shows some of the action that audiences will see when the film is released in June. <strong>Synopsis</strong> <em>The story takes place in 2029 and involves Motoko Kusanagi...

The Edinburgh International Film Festival takes place from <strong>June 17th to the 28th</strong> and yesterday it launched its programme revealing the films that will be playing over the course of the event. While there is no anime on the bill there are a number of interesting live-action...

A trailer for the live-action movie adaptation of <em>Corpse Party</em> has been released by 5pb. The Corpse Party movie is based on the famous horror game franchise which has spawned manga and anime adaptations. The live-action movie features AKB48 and Nogizaka46 member Rina Ikoma who...

Long time anime fans will have heard of Touhou and probably know just how much of a sprawling franchise it is with legions of fans making music, art, and games dedicated to the mystical witches, vampires, and deities. Playism, a video game publisher, is now asking Touhou fans outside of Japan...

Third Window Films released the Japanese film<em> Be My Baby </em>today, May 25th, on DVD. For those who may not know, this film is a potent black comedy based on a stage play. It is all about a disastrous house party and the two weeks that follow where exposes loves, hatreds, and personal...

The live-action <em>Tokyo Tribe</em> film will be screened at the following cinemas from today: 22 & 23 May 2015, LONDON, RITZY BRIXTON &nbsp; 22-May-15 - 29th-May-15, DERBY, QUAD &nbsp; 29-May-15, SHEFFIELD, SHOWROOM &nbsp; 29 & 30 May 2015, LONDON, HACKNEY PICTUREHOUSE...

A teaser trailer has been released on the official site for the live-action adaptation of the manga <em>Bakuman</em>. Viewers can see the actors Takeru Satoh and Ryunosuke Kamiki play Moritaka Mashiro and his friend and fellow aspiring mangaka Akito Takagi. We also get a glimpse of the heroine...

A new <em>Cyborg 009</em> anime is in production to celebrate 50 years since Shotaro Ishinomori first created the manga. The original manga was launched in 1964 and became massively popular but remained unfinished at the time of Ishinomori&rsquo;s death in 1998 but there was enough...

The Dreamcast RPG <em>Grandia II</em> is getting a HD port onto the PC via Steam. Publisher GungHo Online Entertainment stated that it will be bringing an HD version of <em>Grandia II</em> to PC following a survey focussed on games from the Game Arts library. The enthusiastic reader response to...

<em>Castlevania </em>producer Koji Igarashi has launched a Kickstarter campaign calling on people to help finance a 2.5-D action-adventure game called&nbsp;<em>Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night</em>. Koji Igarashi has set a of $500,000 on Kickstarter and has stated there are other funds in...

More and more Japanese games are getting released on PC in the west. In recent years we have had some Nihon Falcom games like the Ys series released on Good Old Games and Steam has seen a surge in visual novels and even <em>Valkyria Chronicles</em>. Fans of Japanese games on PC might want to...

Details have been released about the movie adaptation of Reiko Shimizu&rsquo;s sci-fi manga <em>Himitsu - The Top Secret</em>. <em>The manga is set in the late 21st century. A brain scanner is introduced at the National Research Institute of Police Science's 9th Forensics Laboratory and...

The staff behind <em>Digimon Adventure tri</em>., one of the big Spring 2015 TV anime series, has finally revealed more details about the show and it turns out that it won&rsquo;t be a spring 2015 title at all. In a teaser that played after the continuous stream of the original <em>Digimon...

A sequel to the fantasy anime <em>Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis</em> has been announced today by the staff of the series who were attending an orchestra event. The first series proved to be a rip-roaring adventure that beat some audience suspicions that it was a cash-in since it is based...

A PV for the anime adaptation of the God Eater games has been released by Bandai Visual and it shows some of the setting and characters that will feature in this summer 2015 title. <em>The story of the game is set in the near future, a time when beasts known as Aragami rule the earth and...

A trailer for <em>Sinbad: A Flying Princess and a Secret Island (Sinbad: Sora Tobu Hime to Himitsu no Shima) </em>was released last month previewing the anime&rsquo;s seiyuu. <strong>Synopsis</strong> <em>Sinbad dreams of adventure and travelling the world but he and his pet monkey...

The live-action movie adaptation of Santa Inoue&rsquo;s <em>Tokyo Tribe</em> manga gets a release on May 22nd courtesy of Eureka Entertainment. Described as a &ldquo;crazy, colourful 'hip-hopera', pitting rival street tribes against each other in a futuristic urban war&rdquo;, the film comes...

A trailer for Mamoru Oshii&rsquo;s latest film has been released by the film&rsquo;s official website and it&rsquo;s a live-action production. The film is about a talented girl in an art school. She is a genius who is surrounded by adults who want to use her and envious classmates. As she...

A number of the biggest anime films to be seen in 2014/15 will be at this year&rsquo;s Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Here's the line-up. Click on the links to be taken to the festival page which has more information. <strong>Features</strong> <em>The Case of Hana & Alice...