Removes Naruto, Bleach, Death Note from ANN, other sites

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Viz Media has requested that the streaming video websites hulu.com and Joost remove the ability for viewers to embed their videos into other websites. The affected videos include all episodes of Naruto, Naruto Shippūden, Bleach, an...

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Appliya Inc., a Tokyo-based mobile development company, has announced that it will produce the world's first Iphone and Ipod Touch applications based on the Rebuild of Evangelion movies.

Very few details about the nature of the applications have been announced. According to the press release the first applications, due to be submitted to Apple's App Store this month, will be "...

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The North American distributor FUNimation Entertainment has announced today that it has acquired the My Bride is a Mermaid romantic comedy television anime series from Media Net. The story's heroine, San Seto, is a mermaid who rescues a boy named Nagasumi Michishio from drowning. However, if a human sees a mermaid's true form, both must be killed. Nagasumi and San have to marry and keep San's merm...

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Kodansha's official website for the upcoming xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki and Tsubasa: Shunraiki original animation DVD (OAD) projects has posted a new xxxHOLiC trailer and a Tsubasa trailer. (In both links, select the white Japanese text on the center left.) Both trailers highlight the work of Nanase Ohkawa, the scriptwriter and the story creator of the CLAMP manga quartet, and the animation studio Product...

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The animeanime.jp website reports that Toei Animation\'s current television version of Shigeru Mizuki\'s Gegege no Kitarō manga series will end and make way for the April 5 premiere of the remastered Dragon Ball Z broadcast. The current Gegege no Kitarō supernatural horror anime is the fifth television series by the same name, and it has been running since April 1, 2007.

Toei\'s ...

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Yet-to-be named story to run in Japan\'s Shonen Sunday magazine this spring

ANN reported last week that Rumiko Takahashi, the superstar manga creator of Ranma ½, Inuyasha, Maison Ikkoku, and numerous other series, will start serializing a new unnamed manga in Shogakukan\'s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine this spring. At its New York Comic Con panel on Sunday morning, the manga publis...

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Srry that I haven't done news updates in a while.
So this time, I'll add news from the last three days!
So get to reading! ^^

White Album, Shugo Chara Singles Debut at #2, #4

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Nana Mizuki's "Shinai" opening theme for the White Album anime series debuted on Oricon's weekly singles chart at #2 by selling 42,630 copies. At #4 was the new...

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The Variety entertainment trade news source reports that IMAGI U.S. President Erin Corbett has confirmed the arrival of the bridge financing needed to continue production on the studio's computer-animated Astro Boy film. The bridge funds which keep the company operating, until the previously promised funds from private equity firms arrive next Tuesday. The company had to shut down production on th...

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"Speed Racer", the Hollywood live-action remake of the Japanese anime, received the unfortunate honor of being nominated for the Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel category at the Golden Raspberry Awards or Razzies. The Razzies is an award-giving body that recognizes "Hollywood's high-profile humiliations." And with the reaction of otakus on the upcoming Dragonball, Cowbo...

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