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We need another anime boom over here. I’m sure they can throw some of those shojo titles on with a TV station that shows My Little Pony. I think Sentai could put that sugar fairy on TV for girls.
You know Anime use to be like gold. TV networks were like this is going to get us a lot of ratings. Now it all like “Do we really want to deal with those weirdo’s?”.
It might come down to “The Wierdo’s are the only ones left with money.” :side:
Mark Gosdin
That channel is currently showing the new Duelmasters show, anyway The Hub is just one big toy ad for Hasbro, with a few good shows. I wouldn’t mind seeing a show or two end up there, but Section 23 or whoever would have to give toy rights to Hasbro and make sure the show isn’t too violent, etc. Plus with Toonami back, the late night anime spot isn’t there anymore for everything else.
posted on 2011-07-13 06:22 EDT
Continuation of Brave10 manga by artist of Madness, Makai Ishi Mephisto adaptation
posted on 2011-08-13 06:23 EDT
All-new TV series this fall with Noriko Hidaka (Touch, Inuyasha, Ranma)
posted on 2011-08-26 11:08 EDT
Ru Tatsuki’s 4-panel manga about “spherical cat” and its family
posted on 2011-09-01 09:25 EDT
Hiromu Shinozuka’s comedy about middle school girl & devil baby
posted on 2011-09-05 13:55 EDT
Lucky Star’s Emiri Katou, Kaori Fukuhara create each episode’s script entirely from scratch
posted on 2011-09-11 04:30 EDT
Site for female players with handsome figures in Japanese history
posted on 2011-09-16 06:15 EDT
Anime shorts of Tae Sano’s 4-panel comedy manga premiered in July
posted on 2011-09-27 02:38 EDT
“Slightly risqué” story set in high school girls’ dormitory
posted on 2011-09-29 09:00 EDT
New TV anime based on Takara Tomy’s marble-shooting game to launch on October 2
posted on 2011-10-24 08:30 EDT
Japanese folk stories animated by Nico Nico Douga artist 5-gatsu-byo Mario, Akiba Koubou
posted on 2011-11-22 12:00 EST
Story by saxyun about girl facing life without college in apartment of tenants in same fix
posted on 2011-12-01 04:05 EST
A-1 Pictures anime, manga, 3DS game tied to 2012 game with transforming robots designed by Shoji Kawamori, others
posted on 2011-12-06 15:00 EST
Mobile phone novel about state-sanctioned killing game that spans space-time continuum
posted on 2011-12-08 18:00 EST
Adaptation of Yammie’s children’s books about a girl and her monkey to air in January
posted on 2011-12-26 23:55 EST
posted on 2012-02-14 20:45 EST
Manga began serialization in Manga Club Original magazine in 2010
posted on 2012-03-01 17:45 EST
New TV series telling Japanese folklore stories to premiere on April 1
posted on 2012-03-02 00:30 EST
Fumiko Orikasa, Romi Park star as cynical witch-in-training & her instructor
posted on 2012-03-21 10:55 EDT
Kachidoki Studio’s latest series to follow title panda & zodiac animal friends
posted on 2012-03-21 12:00 EDT
Idol group Sea☆A to perform theme song; series to premiere April 4
posted on 2012-03-21 23:55 EDT
posted on 2012-03-22 04:50 EDT
Little Charo: Tohoku-hen slated for 12 episodes beginning in April
posted on 2012-03-22 21:21 EDT
Follows 2007 anime, 2010 live-action show of Masayuki Ishikawa’s manga in Noitamina
posted on 2012-05-03 01:20 EDT
2007 “Oshiri Kajiri Mushi” song inspirse 20 5-minute episodes this fall
posted on 2012-05-07 09:31 EDT
Kagari Tamaoka’s manga about female manga editors who launch magazine with zero experience
posted on 2012-05-09 22:00 EDT
Toei Animation producing animated version of hit Gree cell phone game
posted on 2012-05-15 21:48 EDT
Second season of five-minute shorts by PansonWorks to begin in July
posted on 2012-06-04 08:49 EDT
Ayana Taketatsu voices Sae’s sister in saxyun’s comedy about girl facing life without college
posted on 2012-06-16 17:00 EDT
Kachidoki Studio’s anime of Thai mascot to debut on 23 Japanese TV stations
posted on 2012-07-07 10:08 EDT
Latest Da Capo visual novel from CIRCUS inspires January 2013 anime
posted on 2012-07-09 08:01 EDT
Shin Araki’s “4-panel novel” about 3 middle-school girls
posted on 2012-08-05 10:39 EDT
Usamaru Furuya’s manga published by Vertical in North America
posted on 2012-08-14 14:45 EDT
Rei Matsuzaki, Hiromi Igarashi star in series about Okinawan family & tree spirits
posted on 2012-09-04 16:32 EDT
posted on 2012-09-11 14:00 EDT
Kachidoki Studio to animate adaptation of Noi Asano’s manga about tiny old man
posted on 2012-09-12 17:30 EDT
Kazutoshi Soyama’s Grandpa Danger manga gets new TV adaptation after 7 years
posted on 2012-09-19 12:00 EDT
2 sisters from The Bears’ School picture books that also inspired anime film
posted on 2012-09-22 22:30 EDT
3rd kids’ anime inspired by Rikko Gibo’s rain drop sprite character
posted on 2012-10-05 06:15 EDT
Keiji Nashima’s comedy of mermaid caught by high school fishing club member
posted on 2012-10-12 22:43 EDT
posted on 2012-11-27 09:00 EST
Kana Asumi, Ryoko Shiraishi play siblings who live together after a decade apart
posted on 2012-11-30 17:45 EST
PansonWorks’ new anime series is based on Sekiguchi Corp’s stuffed monkey toys
posted on 2012-09-10 12:26 EDT
Chama’s niconico/Nano Ace manga about aimless daily life of 3 spirited school girls
posted on 2012-12-06 23:03 EST
posted on 2012-12-20 07:11 EST
Ganbare! Odenkun anime adapted from Lily Franky’s popular children’s book to air in January
posted on 2013-01-04 05:21 EST
Tobira Oda’s award-nominated manga about 4th-grader’s misadventures in apartment complex
posted on 2013-01-10 09:10 EST
Hatsune Miku’s KEI designs story of robots waging war long after humans’ extinction
posted on 2013-02-01 08:41 EST
Japanese re-imagining of Chinese classic novel relocated to Chiba Prefecture
posted on 2013-02-06 10:00 EST
Teruo Teramura & Shizuko Wakayama’s 50-book series have sold 5 million copies
posted on 2013-02-21 02:30 EST
Surreal, comical life of palm-sized, squishy creature & office lady owner
posted on 2013-03-06 20:30 EST
Taiki Matsuno, Juurouta Kosugi to star in series premiering April 7
posted on 2013-03-06 21:30 EST
Rei Matsuzaki, Hiromi Igarashi in story of Okinawan family & tree spirits with POP designs
posted on 2013-03-22 19:00 EDT
2nd anime series based on stamp mascot characters from NHN’s voice-chat/messaging app
posted on 2013-07-23 12:45 EDT
Project originally scheduled for 2005 as collaboration between Gainax, Takara, Broccoli
posted on 2013-07-25 02:05 EDT
Anime based on hit children’s song about bottom-biting insect
posted on 2013-08-01 00:25 EDT
Shin Shinmoto’s comedy manga of 2 pairs of strange but similar siblings
posted on 2013-08-07 13:02 EDT
1st season based on Shin Araki’s light novel series premiered in January
September 2013
posted on 2013-10-16 00:00 EDT
Rikō Anzai’s comedy of boy who gains a strange new big sister with sadist & voluptuous friends
posted on 2013-10-27 12:00 EDT
Tomokazu Seki, Jun Fukuyama, Ryotaro Okiayu, Satsuki Yukino to star
posted on 2013-10-30 09:10 EDT
New anime season moving the setting to the sky to come to Japanese DVD rental stores this spring
posted on 2013-11-15 01:45 EST
Oreimo’s Kanzaki designs characters voiced by Yuka Ōtsubo, Ayaka Ohashi for singing haiku-like songs
posted on 2013-11-20 01:25 EST
posted on 2013-11-28 03:00 EST
Project also spawns phone browser game, 3D iOS shooting game
posted on 2013-12-25 01:40 EST
Mayu Sakai’s story of social outcast who makes friends with popular boy
posted on 2013-12-25 02:50 EST
Aishiteru ze Baby’s Maki created story about competing twins
posted on 2013-12-29 00:30 EST
High school club’s remaining girls to attract members in the new year
posted on 2014-01-08 01:00 EST
January 11, 2014
posted on 2014-01-17 10:25 EST
Sumire Uesaka, Nao Tōyama lead cast for story of girls with cat-like, dog-like tendencies
posted on 2014-02-01 13:30 EST
Masafumi Gotō created TOKYO Yōkai Zukan inspiration for KutsuDaru anime
posted on 2014-02-03 02:05 EST
1st Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku manga inspired 1998 anime helmed by Fruits Basket’s Daichi
posted on 2014-02-15 02:30 EST
posted on 2014-02-23 22:55 EST
Abarenbō Rikishi!! Matsutarō to premiere on April 5
posted on 2014-02-24 02:55 EST
Norio Tsukudani’s story of boy forced by girls to wear female clothes in high school
posted on 2014-02-24 18:30 EST
Yūki Kuwahara, Yuka Matenrō, Saki Ono, Hisako Tōjō star in Asahi’s July anime
posted on 2014-03-13 02:15 EDT
Director, writer, mecha designer named for Satelight’s April TV anime
posted on 2014-03-22 09:35 EDT
Story of 16 ‘local idols’ in Kanagawa Pref. city to premiere this fall
posted on 2014-04-08 13:40 EDT
Series about star of Akiko Ikeda’s children’s books premieres on April 26
posted on 2014-04-11 12:00 EDT
Adaptation of manga by Neko Ramen author debuts on May 3
posted on 2014-05-09 11:00 EDT
Gō Ōhinata’s comedy about man obsessed with how to eat inspires 4 anime/live-action episodes
posted on 2014-05-13 05:45 EDT
Itokichi’s story of high school boy & handsome merman who moves into his bathtub
June 5, 2014
posted on 2014-07-25 06:45 EDT
posted on 2014-07-27 14:15 EDT
A high school student is caught between two warring Dukedoms
posted on 2014-08-16 08:34 EDT
1st season parodying characters from Nihon Falcom games premiered in January
posted on 2014-08-24 12:05 EDT
Etsuko Sumimoto adapts designs by Hanjuku-Joshi manga’s Akiko Morishima
posted on 2014-09-10 15:30 EDT
15-minute episodes about 3 sisters in space to premiere October 6
posted on 2014-09-15 15:20 EDT
2 new characters join series for young children
posted on 2014-09-22 21:20 EDT
Issei Futamata joins cast in 5-minute episodes
posted on 2014-11-24 23:30 EST
TV series about ‘spirits of sound’ is part of project that includes music, manga, stage play, voice actors
posted on 2014-12-13 13:00 EST
Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono: Spin-off Puru Purun Sharumu to Asobō is collaboration with Shonen Sirius manga
posted on 2015-01-16 13:00 EST
Studio to open in March, accept work from overseas
posted on 2015-01-21 14:00 EST
Rareko to direct anime that chronicles British writer’s trip to Japan with his family
posted on 2015-01-21 05:00 EST
Kometokaita Meter’s story of narcissistic Hagito, masochistic Kei, other colorful characters
posted on 2015-01-29 01:20 EST
Kanahei’s series explains matters regarding girls’ bodies, minds with experts
posted on 2015-01-31 17:00 EST
Omakase Mamitasu inspired by Shoko Nakagawa’s life with 10 cats
posted on 2015-02-03 01:15 EST
PUCHIM@S’ Mankyū directs anime shorts about vegetables children hate
by Justin Sevakis, Feb 10th 2015
posted on 2015-02-12 02:00 EST
Bandai Namco Pictures to launch in April; rest of Sunrise to expand business aimed at anime fans
posted on 2015-02-23 14:40 EST
Aya Uchida joins cast of DLE’s anime about creatures who live on human skin
posted on 2015-02-17 08:00 EST
Anime starring unconventional Sherlock Holmes trying to solve vampire murders premieres in April
posted on 2015-02-28 07:13 EST
Actor Mahiro Takasugi plays main character in adaptations of series that began in 2003
posted on 2015-03-23 05:00 EDT
Series about 26-year-old who enjoys herself at bars alone
posted on 2015-05-23 00:19 EDT
Hiroyuki Yamaga reunites with Honneamise collaborator Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
posted on 2015-05-24 04:35 EDT
2 voice actresses to voice themselves in studio feel. anime debuting in July
posted on 2015-06-21 11:20 EDT
FROGMAN directs show about ordinary salaryman’s extraordinary life
posted on 2015-07-26 12:00 EDT
I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying’s Cool-Kyou-Sinnjya writes about girl who can’t refuse to do favors
posted on 2015-08-02 23:30 EDT
Anime DVD bundled with Ciao magazine’s next issue on September 3
posted on 2015-09-06 17:45 EDT
Kanahei designs characters for short anime series about lovable resurrected cat
posted on 2015-09-07 02:00 EDT
Neko no Dayan, Nihon e Iku series to take place in Japan
posted on 2015-10-07 09:00 EDT
Sugisaku’s manga will also get live-action film starring Junsuke Kazama
posted on 2015-10-07 10:00 EDT
Popular kids’ series about 2 twin bear sisters
posted on 2015-10-05 02:15 EDT
Nakamura’s “Cheburashka Dōbutsuen e Iku” to screen alongside film
posted on 2015-02-21 13:20 EST by Karen Ressler
posted on 2015-03-10 07:02 EDT by Sarah Nelkin
Mobile game developer also handles The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls
by Justin Sevakis, March 10th 2015
Welcome to Tales of the Industry, a column where we will share stories from real working professionals in the anime business. These stories will be anonymous, and told in the first person. Names and unimportant details have been changed to protect people’s jobs, but the stories are otherwise 100% true. They might’ve taken place last year, they might’ve taken place a decade ago. They’re the things that the pros wish they could tell you.
Are you a current or former member of the anime business or convention staff? Do you have a story you’ve been dying to tell, but just can’t tell it the normal way? Get in touch with Justin Sevakis through any social media you like. His Twitter account is @WorldOfCrap, if you aren’t acquainted.
by Justin Sevakis, Mar 24th 2015
posted on 2015-04-01 15:20 EDT by Rafael Antonio Pineda
posted on 2015-04-05 06:00 EDT by Kiara Valdez
Former president Chiyomaru Shikura promoted to chairman of board of directors
by Justin Sevakis, Apr 7th 2015
posted on 2015-04-16 15:45 EDT by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Famitsu Magazine will move to Kadokawa’s parent company
posted on 2015-04-27 14:55 EDT by Karen Ressler
posted on 2015-04-28 06:30 EDT by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Government/industry study produce similar results to 2009 study
