Yes - Your favorite spunky little ninja, Naruto, has done very well! Not only is Volume 7 of the NARUTO mangaa finalist at this year's QuillsAwards, but this is also the very first year that a mangahasbeennominatedfor this prestigious award!
So be ...
March was a very difficult month for voting because of the delayed releases by ADV Films that hit from late January and into February. That caused a split to occur among the fan favorite releases of Kanon, which in the end lost because of it. The win...
After taking a few months off from this particular event, we're getting back into the swing of things with our Best DVD Release Awards for the anime category. We had run the voting for January previously in which Kanon Vol. #1 had won the top honors,...
Most Elaborate Manga Box Set Ever Published In North America Bundles Host Of Extras With 27Volumes Of Smash Hit Ninja Series
San Francisco, CA, November 13, 2007 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative a...
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ADV ANNOUNCES MORE MACROSS FOR OCTOBER 24
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HOUSTON, September 8, 2006 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to announce an October 24 street da...
Short story collections in mangaand manhwaare a rare thing and a collection by the talented Hee Jung Park should especially be celebrated.
Creative Talent:Writer/Artist: Hee Jung ParkTranslator: Woo Sok ParkAdaptation: Jamie S. Rich
What They Say:From...
HOUSTON, January 14, 2005 -- ADV Films is pleased to announce the January 25, 2005 DVD release of Martian Successor Nadesico: Essential Anime Collection, Volume 3, the final volume of the fan-centric animation series that is perfect foraficionados of bot...
OPINION:The results are in, and it looks like I should leave the predictions game to the experts. Out of the eleven categories I made predictions about, I was only right about seven of them and at the college I teach at, 60% or thereabouts would be a D....
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS 1986 was the perfect time for David Newman, eldest sibling of the Newman composing clan (brother to Thomas Newman, son of Alfred Newman, nephew to Emil and Lionel, and cousin to older composer Randy Newman to youngster Joel New...
Soundtrax is sorry to report the untimely death of Oscar- and Emmy-winning composer, music teacher, and noted author Fred Karlin, who died of cancer on March 26 in Culver City, Californiaat the age of 67. Over three decades, Karlin composed more than two...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS This is definitely a week of must-haves in soundtrack new releases. Despite having had only five weeks to conceptualize, compose, orchestrate, record and mix the score after stepping in to replace Howard Shore as composer, Jame...
The first volume in the new Heroes print collection may be debuting this week, but Heroes: Origins, the NBC hit’s next TV incarnation, isn’t faring nearly so well. This Halloween saw the expiration of the WGA’s contract with the Alliance...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION In the first of an intended three-volume series, Intrada's two-CD collection of music from the 19805-86 TV anthology series, AMAZING STORIES is an absorbing compilation of music from some of film scoring's top talents. The...
James Cawley, the man who moonlights as Capt. Kirk in his own fan venture Star Trek: New Voyages / Phase 2, is in a bit of a predicament after one of his online episodes caught the attention of the Science Fiction Writers of America. The script for &ldquo...
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THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSPrometheus Records of Belgium has released Don Davis' sublime and poetic score for Tom McLoughlin's psychological thriller, THE UNSAID (PCD 156). Davis, best known these days for his MATRIX scores, provided a warm orchestral sco...
Broadcast Premiere and DVD Release Coming Early 2009
FLOWER MOUND, TX, July 24, 2008 – FUNimation® Entertainment hasacquired the home video, master toy and merchandising rights to AFRO SAMURAI: RESURRECTION from GDH K.K., the second installme...
Diverse New Titles To Kick Off The New Year
San Francisco, CA, January 8, 2008 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, hasannounced the laun...
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"Asience: Hairy Tale," the creative challenge directed by Kazuto Nakazawafor Kao Corporation, hasbeenawarded Gold at the 22nd London International Advertising Awards, Television/Cinema category, cel animation section. The awar...
"Neo Cold War Espionage With A Science-Fiction Twist." " Anime Insider
HOUSTON, December 8, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, announced it hasacquired exclusive home video and broadcast rights in North Ame...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS Mamoru Oshii’s GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE may be the most brilliant visualization that anime has thus far provoked. The first anime movie ever to complete at the Cannes Film Festival (and only the 6th animated film ev...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION Ennio Morricone's hauntingly lovely score for the 1965 Italian horror film, AMANTI D'OLTRETOMBA (Lovers Beyond the Tomb, but best known under its USA release title, NIGHTMARE CASTLE; although also known as NIGHT OF THE DOOMED, T...
Street Dates Set for Saiyuki: Requiem, The Motion Picture and Saiyuki: Double Barrel Collection Volume One
HOUSTON, January 10, 2005— ADV Films is proud to announce that the hottest demon hunters in anime are back where they belong, fighting the ev...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS THE MYTH is Jackie Chan's latest Hong Kong film, and an unusual departure as he plays a Qin Dynasty General in a film that mingles the epic spectacle of films like HERO with the kind of humorous kung-fu action that Chan is know...
This Week’s RecommendationSIn one of their most significant releases to date, FSM has released a splendid two-CD set containing more than two and a half hours of never-before-released original soundtrack music from THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (FSM Vol 5 No 18...
Retro Design Meets Modern Movie Magic
HOUSTON, "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to announce it hasacquired the exclusive home video and broadcast rights in North Americafor the science fiction OVA s...
Humorous And Insightful Film Explores The Nature Of Friendship, Competition and Table Tennis
San Francisco, CA, March 21, 2007 " VIZ Pictures, an affiliate of VIZ Media LLC, the leading U.S. publisher of Japanese animation and comics that focuses on J...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS UK film composer David Julyan, noted for his moody scores for Christopher Nolan's FOLLOWING, MEMENTO, and INSOMNIA (the latter two scores issues on Thrive and Varese Sarabande CDs, respectively) has taken a dark swing into horr...
Kazuto Nakazawa's
"ASIENCE: HAIRY TALE"
selected in competition at the
Ottawa 2007 International Animation Festival
"Asience: Hairy Tale," the creative challenge dire...
Production I.G has created the animation for Kao Corporation's new commercial film promoting Asience shampoo, entitled "Asience: Hairy Tale."
The fully animated film is directed by Kazuto Nakazawa, who gained international fame by directing the animation ...
OPINION: It seems that I made a mistake while writing last week's column which has led to several helpful e-mails correcting me about something I already knew. At one point, I wrote "Eventually I'll be doing a column on which comics should be made into on...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONSSteve Jablonsky has composed a likable score for Katsuhiro Otomo’s latest anime, STEAMBOY, released this week by Colosseum of Germany (it is also available on JVC in Japan; there is no report yet of an American CD). The film is ...