Anime and Manga News

Here's another round of picks from the staff at the Ferndale Public Library . "The unintentional theme here is that everything is overall pretty depressing ," Circulation Specialist Kerrie Patterson says.

La MaMa, in association with Crossing Jamaica Avenue, presents the New York Premiere of the acclaimed Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!, featuring original music and a concept by Fred Ho, co-written by Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff, directed by Sonoko Kawahara, with martial arts choreography by Emmanuel Brown and Japanese sword fighting ... (more)

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month-a celebration of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

Kaoru Mori presents a collection of short manga, including comments and sketches, that span the first ten years of her career.

A German tourist has been jailed for ten months for importing objectionable publications and images, after Customs found over 35,000 child sexual abuse images on his laptop.

Hotaru Amemiya and Seiichi Takano visit Italy in the manga adaptation, HOTARU THE MOVIE: IT'S ONLY A LITTLE LIGHT IN MY LIFE.

In the last 24 hours or so, the above photo has been going viral in Japan. It's been retweeted over eighteen thousand times.

The renowned composer, Yoko Kanno, will present the world premiere performance of her new project, "PIANO ME", at Otakon .

Studio Ghibli, hardly known for reining in the scope of its films, produces works that stretch across many different themes - even realities - in times of great struggle.

Now we all love a good inter-company crossover. Over the years, Superman and Batman have met characters as diverse as the Predator to Bugs Bunny; Superman has met the Thundercats , while the Avengers, well The Avengers met the Transformers.

La MaMa, in association with Crossing Jamaica Avenue, presents the New York Premiere of the acclaimed Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!, featuring original music and a concept by Fred Ho, co-written by Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff, directed by Sonoko Kawahara, with martial arts choreography by Emmanuel Brown and Japanese sword fighting ... (more)

The weekly Manga Magazine, Shonen Jump, has been the birthplace of some of the world's most famous manga.

Have you ever seen a potoo before? You'd remember this Central and South American bird if you've seen one.

Tetsujin 28-go is a Japanese manga and anime about a boy who controls a giant robot.

Earlier today, anime producer and distributor Right Stuf , Inc. announced that they have reached a distribution deal with Sunrise Inc.

The Rose of Versailles Part 1 is a four-disc DVD set that Nozomi Entertainment released in 2013 for the classic shojo series, The Rose of Versailles .

The year was 1947. Headlines announced the establishment of the Cominform and the formation of the CIA that marked the non-declaration of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Inuyasha Best Song History is a two-disc soundtrack that was released in Japan in 2010.

The anime fight scene photo meme is SO last month. The new hotness in Japan's anime-based photo meme is pretending to to be a giant toying with puny humans.

Although it's impossible for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival to sell out - it's free to attend - if it could have, it probably would have this weekend as thousands of eager readers flooded the Toronto Reference Library to meet cartoonists from around the world.