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• Udon, Seven Seas Launch Weekly Serialized Comics (2008-07-23)
  Udon's Crunchyroll e-zine to include Int'l Manga Award runner-up 1520...
• Media Blasters Adds Dai Mahou Touge Comedy Anime (2008-07-23)
  8-episode video series licensed under Magical Witch Punie-chan name...
• Di Gi Charat Video Site Launched on Japan's Nico Nico (2008-07-23)
  Free videos and manga shorts with voiceovers, with more added every weekday...
• Japanese Box Office, July 19–20: Ponyo Opens at #1 (2008-07-23)
  Miyazaki's latest is tracking similarly to 2001's Spirited Away; Pokémon opens at #2...
• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei Video Details Announced (2008-07-23)
  Announcement not affected by reports of Higurashi manga in stabbing suspect's home...
• Daily Briefs (2008-07-22)
  • For Sale: 1/2-Scale Fighter from Oshii's Sky Crawlers
  
• Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Film in Development at Fox (2008-07-22)
  Rights recently signed up by producer Erwin Stoff (Matrix, A Scanner Darkly)...
• Aeon Flux's Chung Working on Astro Boy, Wicked City, Cyborg 009 (2008-07-22)
  Animatrix director storyboarded for Astro Boy & is working on WC, 009 adaptations...
• Japanese Anime TV Ranking, July 7–13 (2008-07-22)
  Crayon Shin-Chan, Doraemon return from week off...
• Bandai Namco Links Up with Fujiyama Subtitling Firm (2008-07-22)
  Fujiyama's systems to be used in Bandai Channel's anime distribution overseas...
• Research Team Names Protein After Pokémon's Pikachu (2008-07-22)
  Pikachurin named for its role in regulating the efficiency of kinetic vision...
• Fifth Kara no Kyoukai Film's Trailer Posted Online (2008-07-22)
  Latest entry in supernatural suspense film franchise to open in Japan on August 16...
• New World Destruction Anime Promo Movie Streamed (2008-07-22)
  Anime tie-in to Sega's DS role-playing game premiered on July 7...
• Daily Briefs (2008-07-21)
  • Café Kichijouji de CD Drama Adapted for Live-Action TV
  • Icarus Publishing Uploads 3rd Free Comic AG Mag Issue (Updated)
  • Cyborg 009 Manga Avatars in PC-Based Street Fighter
  
• Funimation Offers Subbed Downloads of Jyu-Oh-Sei (2008-07-21)
  Entire series available before any North American DVD plans are announced...
• Funimation Licenses Baccano! Anime (Updated) (2008-07-21)
  Aniplex's adaptation of Ryohgo Narita's light novels set in the early 1930s...
• Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, July 10–16 (2008-07-21)
  Eva:1.0's special edition back on top, followed by DMC, Minami-ke: Okawari #3...
• Miike's Live-Action Yatterman Film's Teaser Streamed (2008-07-21)
  Film by director of Zebraman, Sukiyaki Western: Django to open next March...
• Sensual Phrase's Shinjo to Draw 1-Shot Jump Sq. Manga (2008-07-21)
  Mayu Shinjo's first work in a shōnen magazine...
• Japanese-Animated Stitch! Series' Promo Video Streamed (2008-07-21)
  Okinawa-set spinoff from Disney film to premiere this October in Japan...