Torrance, Calif. February 28, 2008 – dot-anime.us, the ecommerce site operated by Bandai Visual USA , announced today the launch of a new streaming video service, which will offer fans a legal option to view a full episode of Bandai Visual USA titles.
The anime distributor Bandai Visual USA has announced that its dot-anime.us retail website will stream the first full episode of the Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time – A Tale of the Eight Guardians anime series starting in late March 2008. The streaming will be "free of charge, for a limited time, and to viewers in the United States and Canada only."
Among its legions of fans, Japanese anime has long been regarded as a defining element of what makes Japan "cool." This quintessential Japanese modern art form found a worldwide audience, and its impact has been pervasive.
BaseSon 's Koihime†Musō : DokiOtome Darake no Sangokushi Engi adult adventure game for personal computers will be adapted as a television anime series and a manga.
Page 24 of Fujimi Shobo 's Dragon Magazine 's April issue which is officially on sale on February 29 but was previewed early has announced that a new television anime project is in the works for Hajime Kanzaka 's Slayers fantasy light novels.
G.D.H. , the parent company of the Gonzo anime studio, has announced that it has launched the online Gon Tube show on Google's YouYube video-sharing service on Friday.
San Francisco, CA -- eigoMANGA and AsianWeek Produces The Anime Pavilion At The Fourth Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration. The Anime Pavilion celebrates the otaku (anime fan) culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Anime fans all over the Bay Area are invited to an exciting day-long programming line-up of live Japanese rock ( jrock ) performances, an anime theme runway fashion show
The official website for the School Rumble anime franchise has announced that a third series has been greenlit for production. Kodansha will bundle School Rumble : Third Term DVDs with the limited first editions of the 21st and 22nd volumes of Jin Kobayashi 's original manga.
Torrance, Calif. February 26, 2008 – Bandai Visual USA announced today the release of sola on DVD, beginning on June 10, 2008. sola was voted ‘Best Anime of 2007’ in Japan with over two million votes in a poll from the company Spider Networks and will be released in the U.S. in five volumes with each volume consisting of three episodes and with the last two each featuring one special episode