New Announced Anime

[NeoSam]

I can't beleive this no way, no way >.< Moetan is getting animated, yes yes moe moe

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もえたん
Moetan

Broadcast: July 2007

Official anime site:
http://www.ink-chan.com/

Official site for Moetan handbook:
http://www.moetan.jp/

Its based on a super moe~ vocabulary handbook

Mentioned on the anime site in english: "MOETAN, a super vocabulary handbook is now enchanted to animation!!"

Moetan handbooks can be seen here:
http://www.moetan.jp/005-moetan.html
http://www.moetan.jp/004-moetan2.html
http://www.moetan.jp/014-moetan3.html

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Edit:

For more info check the wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOETAN

[NeoSam]

The second season of Zero no Tsukaima is going to be titled: Zero no Tsukaima ~Sougetsu no Kishi~ (ゼロの使い魔 ～双月の騎士～)

Broadcast: 13/7/2007

From Manganews:

Shueisha Puts out Drama-CD Pre"view" Site: A lot of people has asked me what a "drama cd" is, since these drama cd will most likely never be imported to this side of the world. To put it simply, drama cd are basically audio drama, usually based on some manga or novels, done by anime voice actress and comes with sound effects. Try out Shueisha's site, it has some of the more popular titles like Ichigo100%, Busou Renkin, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Lovely Complex and more.
[ Link: S-Cast.net ]

[NeoSam]

More trailers:

From AnimeNation:

Code-E Trailer Released
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The official Code-E homepage now hosts a 90 second trailer for the upcoming sci-fi school love comedy. The Code-E anime television series is scheduled to premier in July.

Source: Moon Phase

New Clannad Movie Trailer Released
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A new "Megumel 0426Ver." trailer for the Clannad movie has been released on the Animate.tv site in narrowband and broadband resolutions. Animate.tv also hosts the earlier Clannad movie trailer in narrowband and broadband resolutions. The film is scheduled to open in Japanese theaters on September 15th.

Source: Moon Phase

[eggplant]

はぴはぴクローバー
Hapi Hapi Clover (Happy Happy Clover)

Based on the shoujo manga by Tatsuyama Sayuri, serialized in the Monthly Ciao mangazine, with 2 tankoubon releases so far.
In the same manner as the mangaka's previous manga title, Puku Puku Tennen Kairanban, Hapi Hapi Clover (Hapikuro) features animals, with bunnies as the protagonists.

Covers

Spoiler for Tankoubon covers:

Broadcast: July 2007
Station: Kids Station
Genre: Shoujo

Source: Ciao June 2007 issue and July issue preview.

[NeoSam]

From AnimeNation:

Tetsuko no Tabi Trailer Online
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A 30 second trailer for the upcoming Tetsuko no Tabi anime television series is now available online. The program is scheduled to premier on June 24th.

Source: Moon Phase

Second Vexille Trailer Released
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The official homepage for the upcoming full CG anime movie Vexille now hosts a new second trailer. The film is scheduled for Japanese theatrical release in August.

Source: Twitch

Shin SOS Dai Tokyo Tankentai Trailer Released
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The official homepage for the upcoming Shin SOS Dai Tokyo Tankentai anime motion picture now hosts a 15 second TV commercial in narrowband and broadband resolutions, and a full length theatrical trailer. The film is scheduled for Japanese theatrical release on May 19th.

Source: Anime News Network

[NeoSam]

And another seinen manga will be getting animated:

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もやしもん
MOYASIMON (Moyashimon)

Based on a manga thats serialized in the seinen manga magazine Evening.
For now there are 4 volumes released of this manga.
Covers:

Spoiler:

Mangaka: Ishikawa Masayuki

Genre: Seinen

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The manga is mentioned in english on the covers as MOYASIMON.

Evening is a manga magazine aimed at men between 25-35.

Other seinen manga from Evening magazine that got animated:

Koi Kaze

[NeoSam]

Here's some info from this blog about Moyashimon (Moyasimon) manga:

it's about a youth who can see and talk to cute, chibi bacteria and other microscopic organisms, and it gets him into all sorts of trouble. And to top that off, the theme is agriculture- fermenting alcohol, making yogurt, etc..

Volume 5 of Moyashimon manga will be out on 22/6/2007.

[NeoSam]

Another trailer, from AnimeNation:

Kiddy Grade 2 Trailer Released
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Newtype Magazine now hosts a streaming 75 second long trailer for the Kiddy Grade 2 Pilot DVD, which is scheduled to to on sale in Japan on the 25h. The trailer is available in 500k resolution and 1mb resolution.

Source: Rakuga Kidou

[NeoSam]

The shounen manga Kamen no Maid Guy by Akai Maruborou is getting animated:

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仮面のメイドガイ
Kamen no Maid Guy

Based on a manga thats serialized in the shounen manga magazine Dragon Age.
For now there are 5 volumes released of this manga.
Covers:

Spoiler:

Mangaka: Akai Maruborou

From Plumcity group:

Fujiwara Naeka is a typical 17 year old high school student. Or so we thought. She’s really one of 2 surviving heirs of a tycoon who has the right to inherit his mass fortune when she turns 18 in half a year. Fubuki, a young and beautiful maid, and Kogarashi, a big burly maid guy with a mask, have been assigned to keep Naeka and her brother Kousuke safe from those who would plot their demise, and to steal the fortune she would inherit.

Genre: Shounen, Comedy, Action

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Other shounen manga from Dragon Age magazine that got animated:

• Chrno Crusade (Chrono Crusade)
• Karin
• Kyoushirou to Towa no Sora

[Kouji]

From Anime Nation

Highlander: The Search For Vengeance

Film news site Latefilm.com now hosts 5 clips from the upcoming Highlander: The Search for Vengeance animated movie. The movie will be released on American DVD on June 5th.

Source: Twitch

[eggplant]

D.C. II (Da Capo II)

Broadcast: TBA

Based on the PC game (annoucement of PS2 release simultaneously made) by Circus, sequel to the anime D.C. ~Da Capo~ and D.C.S.S. ~Da Capo Second Season~.

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama, Supernatural

Synopsis: (excerpt from the D.C. II Wikipedia entree)

Spoiler:

Similar to its predecessor, the story takes place on the same island in Japan, Hatsunejima (初音島). It is set 53 years after the original game.

The Asakura sisters are the granddaughters of Asakura Junichi and Asakura Nemu from the first Da Capo. It is unknown if Shirakawa Nanaka, Mizukoshi Maika, and Suginami are related to Shirakawa Kotori, the Mizukoshi sisters, and Suginami from the first game.

Yoshino Sakura and Asakura Junichi are the only returning characters, and Asakura Nemu is the only other character to be mentioned by name.

Yume, Nanaka, Minatsu, and Sakura's themes are remixes of themes from previous games. Yume, Minatsu, and Sakura's are remixes of Nemu, Miharu, and Sakura's from Da Capo, and Nanaka's is a remix of Sayaka's from Suika.

Source: Comptiq June 2007 issue, on sale May 10th.

Details will be posted once available.

Existing AnimeSuki thread for D.C. II:
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=562237

[NeoSam]

D.C. II game is the number 1 in sales ranking for 2006 according to Getchu site >.< this was so obvious it will be getting an anime sooner or later >.<

I loved the first and second season anime, and I'm looking forward for this anime too

Publisher's site for Kamen no Maid Guy manga:
http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/fujimi/webage/kamen.html

[NeoSam]

Originally Posted by NeoSam

The second season of Zero no Tsukaima is going to be titled: Zero no Tsukaima ~Sougetsu no Kishi~ (ゼロの使い魔 ～双月の騎士～)

Broadcast: 13/7/2007

According to the japanese wiki entry the title for the second zero no tsukaima anime is ゼロの使い魔～双月の騎士～ （ゼロのつかいま ふたつきのきし）

So the title for the second anime season is: Zero no Tsukaima ~Futatsuki no Kishi~

and not as mentioned in a previous post (Zero no Tsukaima ~Sougetsu no Kishi~).

Edit:

Though I don't remember how many times the english and japanese wikis provided me with wrong info.

[cyth]

Originally Posted by NeoSam

Though I don't remember how many times the english and japanese wikis provided me with wrong info.

IMO, the japanese wikipedia is still far more reliable for names than any one of those automatic transliterator sites/programs. In any case, the title of the new Zero no Tsukaima season has already been discussed in Zero no Tsukaima's subforum. We settled on Futatsuki no Kishi due to the following post:

Originally Posted by Sushi-Y

I just flipped through the June issue of Dengeki G's, and the title for the second season was written as "Futatsuki no Kishi",

There, mystery solved?

[Kaioshin Sama]

Zero No Tsukaima: Knight of Full Moon???? (I'm assuming the Futa means full or is Red Moon?)

[HurricaneHige]

knight of the twin moon

[NeoSam]

From Anime News Service:

Macross Director To Animate Life Of Hatta Yoichi
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Macross and Space Battleship Yamato Director Noboru Ishiguro will helm production on a new anime film portraying the life of 20th century engineer Hatta Yoichi (1886-1942). The man is known for modernizing the agricultural water supply of Taiwan during the Japanese imperial occupation (1895-1945). Hatta was active in Taiwan from the Taishou era through the beginning of the Showa era. Among his great accomplishments are the construction of the Chianan Irrigation Waterworks and the Karasuyama Dam. Mushi Productions president Ito made the announcement at a memorial festival commemorating the 65th anniversary since the engineer's death held at the Karasuyama Dam on Wednesday. Around 40 Japanese attended. The tentative title of the work will be "Paaten Rai (Hatta Ga Yatteki Ta)!" (Hatta Came!), production budget will be 150 million yen. Ishiguro-san is already developing the scenario. The story will center on a Taiwanese boy who was born to a poor farmer and becomes a hero as an assistant to Hatta. Theatrical opening in Beijing, China and Taipei, Taiwan are planned next summer. Ito said they are quite eager to tell the story of Hatta who loved Taiwan, and is also loved by the Taiwanese people for his selfless dedication to improving society through his agricultural irrigational projects. Hata hailed from Ishikawa Prefecture, Kanazawa city. He graduated from the Tokyo Imperial University Department of Engineering Works in 1910 and first found employment as an assistant engineer of the Taiwanese governor-general prefectural home affairs bureau Civil Engineering Division. He bagan construction of his first major project at age 28. In 1918 he began working on the Karasuyama dam and resevoir which took 10 years and 54 million yen to complete. The dam helped to greatly transform a draught ridden area. The construction is maintained as a park presently and you can see a memorial and bronze statue dedicated to Hatta there. He was killed when a ship he was on was sunk by a United States submarine in the vicinity of the Goto islands in May, 1942. His wife followed him shortly thereafter, jumping from the damn to her death on September 1st, 1945, following hearing the news of Japan's defeat. Hatta's achievements today are evaluated highly (espcially among the elderly), moreso in Taiwan than Japan. They are also still taught in Taiwanese junior high textbooks.

[Siegel Clyne]

Because of the great success of the Suigintou no Koyoi mo Ennu~i (Suigintou's It's Ennui Again, Tonight) Radio CD - in which popular character Suigintou (Tanaka Rie) serves as the radio host - that was put on the market in conjunction with the Rozen Maiden Ouverture television animation DVD, production of a second volume had been decided.

The Suigintou no Koyoi mo Ennu~i Radio CD Vol. 2 is slated to be released on June 27, 2007.

Rozen Maiden Web Radio Bara no Kaori no Garden Party Bangai-Hen Suigintou no Koyoi mo Ennu~i Vol. 2 Radio CD

Amazon Japan Link

CD Japan Link

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Rozen Maiden: Ouverture - Anime - Fansub TV

Rie Tanaka has a knack for delivering memorable lines spoken by characters she plays, such as Chii's (Chi's) cute, adorable "pantsu pantsu" ("panties panties") in episode 4 of Chobits, Koyomi (Yomi) Mizuhara's tough, aggressive "Double chop!" in episode 4 of Azumanga Daioh, and Eriko Futami's sweet, gentle "I love you, darling" in the KimiKiss love simulation game.

Rie Tanaka excels at spewing invective, mockery, condenscension, anger, and hatred: 1) Bianchi's "Poison Cooking!" in Katekyo Hitman REBORN!"; 2) Tomoe Marguerite's "gomikuzu" ("trash") in episode 15 of My-Otome; 3) Tomoe Marguerite's "Matte!!!" ("Wait!!!") in episode 25 of My-Otome; 4) Suigintou's "Nyuusankin totteru(u)?" ("Are you taking your lactic acid bacteria?") in episode 8 of Rozen Maiden; 5) Suigintou's "Shinku!!" in episode 2 of Rozen Maiden Ouvertüre; 6) Suigintou's "Junk ni shite ageru(wa)!!" ("I'll turn you into junk!!") in Rozen Maiden overall; and so on.

No voice actress plays mean, spiteful bitches (e.g., Isabella in Soukou no Strain) and evil, if not crazy, villains (e.g., Morganna Mode Gone in .hack//SIGN, Suigintou in Rozen Maiden, Tomoe Marguerite in My-Otome) better than Rie Tanaka.

This is the same Rie Tanaka who voices such sweet, kind, gentle characters like Maria in Hayate no Gotoku! (Hayate the Combat Butler), Mariel in Hanaukyou Maid-tai (Hanaukyo Maid Team), Mary in Soukou no Strain, Hikari Kujou (Shiny Luminous) in Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart, Ren Mikihara in Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu, and Lacus Clyne in Gundam SEED / Gundam SEED DESTINY.

(Well, some people - inside and outside Japan - think that the last character is really evil.)

Among anime fans in Japan and elsewhere, Rie Tanaka has become inextricably linked with Suigintou's famous trademark lines, "Nyuusankin totteru(u)?" ("Are you taking lactic acid bacteria?") and "Junk ni shite ageru(wa)!!" ("I'll turn you into junk!!").

For example, because of Rie Tanaka's delivery of the line "Nyuusankin totteruu?" ("Are you taking your lactic acid bacteria?") as Suigintou in episode 8 of Rozen Maiden back in late 2004 - a line which Japanese fans say originated in the anime, not in the manga - Japanese (and non-Japanese) fans now commonly associate Suigintou with Yakult, a popular Japanese drink containing lactic acid bacilli (bacteria) reputed to have health benefits.

A couple of weeks ago in an anime character thread for Maria from Hayate no Gotoku! (Hayate the Combat Butler) at Japan's 2ch forums, or message boards - probably the largest in the world - a Japanese poster wished Rie Tanaka's sweet, kind, gentle Maria would shout, "Junk ni shite ageruwa!!" ("I'll turn you into junk!!").

Going by hundreds - if not thousands - of posts at Japanese forums and message boards the past two and a half years, a lot of Japanese fans wish Maria and other Rie Tanaka characters would yell, "Junk ni shite ageruwa!!"

<<Animation DVD Sales Rankings and Figures in Japan>>

Japanese fans can obtain sales rankings and scanned sales figures of DVDs from Oricon, Japan's counterpart of the US's Nielsen, through various channels, such as websites (e.g., ORICON STYLE, goo), ORICON STYLE magazine, maybe once in a while a magazine like Animedia ... and Japan's huge 2ch forums, probably the world's largest.

One or more reliable sources at 2ch regularly or semi-regularly post sales rankings and sales numbers of animation DVDs, Japanese and non-Japanese, based on data from Oricon.

A reliable source who posts daily on animation DVD sales [in Japan] threads at 2ch, on more than one occasion, has described in detail how and where he (I am assuming that it is a he) obtains his facts and figures concerning scanned DVD sales from Oricon. Others are free to verify his usually very thorough information. He mentioned, among other things, subscribing to one or more services from Oricon. He is considered a "god" of animation DVD sales information by fellow 2ch posters, who ruthlessly root out fakes who post phony information, a common occurrence on 2ch's anonymous message boards.

Big Japanese companies like NAMCO BANDAI Holdings Inc. and TOEI ANIMATION CO., LTD publish annual character sales figures and annual copyright income sales figures, respectively, on their official websites.

I have posted links to, and scans of, Namco Bandai character sales figures and Toei Animation copyright income sales figures in numerous posts on other English language forums. Due to ANN policy, I cannot post links to many of these posts. But you can still search for them on Google, etc.

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Top 10 Animation (Anime) Series DVD Sales Figures Ranking in Japan For 2005 - Oricon Examination, Animedia Magazine, February 2006

01. Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED DESTINY (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY)
[Volumes 1-10]
645,512 Copies Sold
[64,551 Copies Sold Per Volume]

02. AIR
[Volumes 1-6 + SUMMER + MEMORIES]
174,299 Copies Sold
[21,787 Copies Sold Per Volume]

03. Initial D Fourth Stage
146,024 Copies Sold

04. BLEACH
[BLEACH Soul Society Shinigami Daikou-hen Volumes 1-5, BLEACH Soul Society Sennyuu-hen Volumes 1-5]
126,429 Copies Sold
[12,643 Copies Sold Per Volume]

05. Mahou Sensei Negima! [Negima]
[Volumes 1-6]
103,661 Copies Sold
[17,277 Copies Sold Per Volume]

06. Dragon Ball Z
[Volumes 1-6]
99,576 Copies Sold
[16,596 Copies Sold Per Volume]

07. Mai-HiME (My-HiME)
[Volumes 1-9]
98,025 Copies Sold
[10,892 Copies Sold Per Volume]

08. Koukaku Kidoutai STAND ALONE COMPLEX (Ghost in the Shell S.A.C.)
88,865 Copies Sold

09. Keroro Gunsou (Sergeant Frog)
85,077 Copies Sold

10. Aa! Megamisama! (Ah! My Goddess) [Volumes 1-8]
78,681 Copies Sold
[9,835 Copies Sold Per Volume]

Studio Ghibli and Disney animation DVD sales are excluded.

(American television animation series usually fail to sell on DVD in Japan.)

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Top 20 Television Animation (Anime) DVD Sales Figures Ranking in Japan for 2006

Television Animation DVD Sales Figures Ranking in 2006 (2006/01/02 - 2006/12/04 {January 2, 2006 - December 4, 2006})

01. DRAGON BALL Z
(Volumes 7-39)
568,216 Copies Sold
[17,219 Copies Sold Per Volume]

02. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY
(Volumes 11-13, Special Edition Volumes 1-3)
339,610 Copies Sold
[56,602 Copies Sold Per Volume]

03. Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
(Limited Edition Volumes 00-5, Regular Edition Volumes 2, 4)
225,293 Copies Sold
[37,549 Copies Sold Per Volume]

04. Fate/stay night
(Volumes 1-7 + Volume 8 Limited Edition)
194,973 Copies Sold
[24,372 Copies Sold Per Volume]

05. BLEACH
(BLEACH Soul Society Kyuushutsu-hen Volumes 1-5, BLEACH Baunt-hen {Bount-hen} Volumes 1-6)
108,181 Copies Sold
[9,835 Copies Sold Per Volume]

06. ARIA
(ARIA The ANIMATION Volumes 1-6, ARIA The NATURAL Volumes 1-5)
100,334 Copies Sold
[9,121 Copies Sold Per Volume]

07. NANA
(Volumes 1-5)
88,456 Copies Sold
[17,691 Copies Sold Per Volume]
Note: NANA Volume 1 sold around 60,000 copies; for nearly three months after its release in Japan, the retail price was only 707 yen (less than US$7), presumably after the number of the apartment the two Nana's co-rented, 707 (Nana-Zero-Nana in Japanese).

08. Shakugan no Shana
(Volumes 1-8)
81,011 Copies Sold
[10,126 Copies Sold Per Volume]

09. Mai-OtoHiME (Mai-Otome; My-Otome; Mai-ZHiME; My-ZHiME)
(Volumes 1-9)
78,017 Copies Sold
[8,669 Copies Sold Per Volume]

10. Gintama
(Volumes 1-5)
76,528 Copies Sold
[15,306 Copies Sold Per Volume]

11. BLOOD+
(Volumes 1-12)
72,221 Copies Sold
6,018 Copies Sold Per Volume

12. Initial D Fourth Stage
(Volumes 10-12)
66,627 Copies Sold
[22,209 Copies Sold Per Volume]

13. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's)
(Volumes 1-6)
64,903 Copies Sold
[10,817 Copies Sold Per Volume]

14. Eureka 7
(Regular Edition Volumes 6-13, UMD Volumes 8-13)
60,631 Copies Sold
[7,579 Copies Sold Per Volume]

15. Rozen Maiden Träumend
(Volumes 1-6)
55,712 Copies Sold
[9,285 Copies Sold Per Volume]

16. Keroro Gunsou (Sergeant Frog)
(2nd Season Volumes 4-13, 3rd Season Volumes 1-2)
54,762 Copies Sold
[4,564 Copies Sold Per Volume]

17. Hachimitsu to Clover (Honey and Clover)
(Volumes 5-9, II Volumes 1-2)
54,116 Copies Sold
[7,731 Copies Sold Per Volume]

18. SHUFFLE!
(Volumes 3-12)
53,263 Copies Sold
[5,326 Copies Sold Per Volume]

19. Pani Poni Dash!
(Volumes 2-7)
48,038 Copies Sold
[8,006 Copies Sold Per Volume]

20. Mushishi
(Volumes 1-5)
46,830 Copies Sold
[9,366 Copies Sold Per Volume]

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Animation Titles on the Top 100 DVD Bestsellers List in Japan During 2006 (Oricon)

2006 DVD TOP 100
(Aggregate Period: 2005/12/05 - 2006/12/18)

Ranking | Estimated Cumulative Sales | Highest Ranking During Period | Title | Release Date

**5 | 483,556 | *2 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2005/11/16

*13 | 283,424 | *1 | Cars | 2006/11/08

*26 | 155,179 | *3 | Chicken Little | 2006/04/28

*27 | 150,753 | *2 | Tim Burton's Corpse Bride | 2006/03/03

*29 | 145,595 | *1 | Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam II -Koibitotachi- | 2006/02/24

*31 | 139,873 | *1 | Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam III -Hoshi no Kodou wa Ai- | 2006/08/25

*35 | 130,709 | *4 | Madagascar Special Edition | 2005/12/02

*41 | 120,189 | 16 | My Neighbor Totoro | 2001/09/28

*51 | 105,067 | *3 | Madagascar Premium Edition with "Penguin Christmas Caper" Disc | 2005/12/02

*52 | 103,624 | *5 | Robots Special Edition | 2005/12/16

*60 | *95,544 | *2 | Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY Vol. 13 | 2006/02/24

*64 | *90,079 | *2 | Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa [Perfect Limited Edition] | 2006/01/25

*70 | *81,840 | *4 | Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa | 2006/01/25

*76 | *78,699 | *1 | The Little Mermaid Platinum Edition | 2006/10/04

*82 | *74,745 | *4 | Arashi no Yoru ni Standard Edition | 2006/06/23

*92 | *68,828 | *2 | Brave Story (1-Disc Set) | 2006/11/23

*95 | *67,052 | *4 | Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY Vol. 11 | 2005/12/23

*99 | *64,745 | *3 | Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY Vol. 12 | 2006/01/27

100 | *64,059 | *4 | The Little Mermaid | 2006/10/04

Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny was the only television animation series to have single DVDs crack the list of the top 100 bestselling DVDs in Japan during 2006.

The regular edition of Howl's Moving Castle (Howl no Ugoku Shiro) sold something like nearly 800,000 copies during its first two weeks of release in Japan back during late 2005, which do not count in DVD sales figures in Japan during 2006. According to the ORICON STYLE website, the regular edition of Howl's Moving Castle sold 708,000 copies alone during its first week of release in Japan.

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Oricon DVD sales figures in Japan for the week of Monday, January 29, 2007 to Sunday, February 4, 2007 show that:

1) My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro), from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli (September 28, 2001 release), sold 1,385 copies during the week - for a total of 703,816 copies sold.

2) Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi), from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli (July 19, 2002 release), sold 1,272 copies during the week - for a total of 2,276,909 copies sold.

Spirited Away is, by a substantial margin, the bestselling DVD in Japan ever.

According to Video Research Ltd.'s Top 30 Most Watched Television Programs During 2003 in the Kantou Region of Japan (Tokyo, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Saitama, Chiba, etc.), the television broadcast debut of Spirited Away on NTV (Nippon Television Network), Friday, January 24, 2003, 20:30-23:09 (8:30pm-11:09pm), finished at No. 1, scoring an average television household audience rating of 46.9% - the highest recorded by any movie in history, and the highest recorded by any animation in history.

Spirited Away is the highest grossing film of all time at the Japanese box office.

Last edited by Siegel Clyne; 2007-09-24 at 15:20 [PDT].

New York Anime Festival

Meet the Voice of Chii, Lacus Clyne, and Suigintou!

Voice Actress RIE TANAKA Comes to the NEW YORK ANIME FEST

Rie Tanaka Brings Her Famous Voice to NYAF

Jul 17th 2008
PROLIFIC JAPANESE VOICE ACTRESS TO ATTEND THE NEW YORK ANIME FESTIVAL AS A GUEST OF HONOR

Norwalk, CT, July 17, 2008: The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) today announced famous Japanese voice actress Rie Tanaka will appear at its 2008 event as a Guest of Honor. Ms. Tanaka is most known around the globe for voicing Lacus Clyne in the anime series Gundam Seed, Chii in Chobits, and Suigintou in Rozen Maiden. The New York Anime Festival, an anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture convention from the creators of New York Comic Con, takes place September 26th through the 28th at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.

"We're excited to welcome Ms. Tanaka into or show," NYAF Show Manager Lance Fensterman said. "She's given voice to some of the most popular and enduring anime characters in recent years, and we know she has an eager fanbase wanting to meet her in America."

While Ms. Tanaka is most known for her roles in Gundam Seed, Chobits, and Rozen Maiden, she has contributed her voice to characters in over 50 animations, with some standouts including Simca in Air Gear, Yomi in Azumanga Daioh, Sei in Burst Angel, Hiroko Matsukata in Hataraki Man, Monica Lange in Macross Frontier, Tomoe Marguerite in My-Otome, Saki in Steel Angel Kurumi, and Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke in Strike Witches. In addition, Ms. Tanaka is also the voice behind songs featured in many of the series she's worked on including Azumanga Daioh, Burst Angel, Chobits, and Gundam Seed.

Beyond question-and-answer and autograph sessions, Ms. Tanaka will perform a selection of her songs at the start of NYAF's World Cosplay Summit Masquerade -- a costume contest with prizes including a trip to Japan. Tickets to NYAF are on sale now at newyorkanimefestival.com.

The New York Anime Festival 2008 will be held from Friday, September 26, 2008 to Sunday, September 28, 2008 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, NY, USA.

[NeoSam]

naked ape's DOLLS manga will be getting a Drama CD.

Release date: June 25, 2007.

DOLLS manga is serialized in Comic ZERO-SUM magazine.

[Kouji]

Advent Children Update

From Anime Nation

Blue Ray Edition - Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

During this past weekend's Square Enix Party 2007 publicity event held in Makuhari, Japan, Square Enix announced development of an extended "complete" version of the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children movie for Blu-ray disc. Screenshots of two of the newly added scenes are available from AV Watch. No precise release date for the Blu-ray release has been scheduled.