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The Anime distributor Aniplex of America has announced that it will release R.O.D - The Complete - Blue Ray Box set this winter. The five-disc set will include the original three R.O.D video anime episodes as well as the 26 episodes in the R.O.D - The TV - anime sequel. The set will have Japanese and English Language soundytacks.

Manga Entertainment once released the 2001-2002 R.O.D video anime series in North America, and 2003-2004 Geneon Entertainment.

Keyword: Aniplex, R.O.D, Anime, Blue ray

The September issue of Shueisha's Jump Squere magazine is announcing on Wednesday that Kentaro Yabuki is Launching a To Love-R spinoff manga Series in The November issue on October 4.

Keyword: Manga, To Love-Ru,

Grant Miyamura Reel Anime 2010 has listed the location of it's festival screenings in Australia and New Zealand and announced its special guests. Yuko Miyamura, the Japanese voice actess who played the character Asuka, will be present in the Australia premiere of Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Evangeion Shin Gekijouban:Ha) Miyamura also performed as Asuka in Evangelion television series and The End of Evangelion film. Another guest will be Tiffany Grant, Who voiced Asuka in the english dub of the television series. They will appear at the Dendy Newton theater in Sydney on August 5 at 6:30p.m.

Keyword: Japanese, English, Actress, Evangelion:2.0, Series

Jeph Loeb, Executive Vice President, Head of Television of Marvel, has confirmed at the Iron Man Anime Panel in Comic-Con International on friday that the four Marvel Anime Television series wil launch in the United States on The G4 television network in 2011. The four Anime Series
 are Iron man, Wolverine, Blade, and X-Man.

Keyword: Anime, Marvel, U.S, G4 Television

The production company Anchor Bay Entertainment has revealed in a Monday media alert for it's Comic-con International plans that Redline is one of the "upcoming Manga Release" along with First Squad - The Moment of Truth. Both Anchor Bay Entertainment and the anime distributor Manga Entertainment are currently subsidianes of Starz Media.

The Film will open in Japan on October 9 after advance screenings at international film festivals. Three new trailers were launched late last week.

Keyword: Manga, Anchor Bay, Released

According to a Friday Post on the official Disney Parks Blog , the Japan Pavilion at Walt Disney World Resort's Epcot theme park has opened a new axhibit called "Spirit Beasts: From Ancient Strories to Anime Stars." The Florida-based exhibit showcase classic creatures from Japanese folktales that have seved as inspiration for modem day anime and manga series.

Among the examples pictured are the kappa, the kitsune, the tsuru, the saru, and the moon rabbit. Project Manager and show producer Wyatt Winter says that exhibit should run for several years. Prior to the Spirit Beasts exhibit, the location housed exhibits on World Heritage Sites of Japan and Tin Toy Stories.

Disney's involvement with anime in North America consists primarily of it's localization and distribution of Studio Ghibli titles. Recently, however, Disney added Naruto to it's Disney XD Television channel's lineup. Disney has alaso been creating original content for the Japanese market, including three television series spinoffs of it's film Lilo and Stitch with anime studios MADHOUSE and Shinei Animation.

Keyword: Walt Disney, Anime, Beasts

The Tokyo-born artist began drawing his four-panel Chibikko Shinshi manga strips in the Tokyo Shimbun paper in 1956. He renamed his work as Honobono-kun on February 6, 1984 — the day after publishing his 5,000th strip. He would finish the manga on March 8, 2007 after 57 years and 15,451 strips. Tsukuda won the Manga Artist Society's grand prize in 2004 for Honobono-kun, which was known as the "Japanese Charlie Brown" for its gentle, humorous touch.

Keyword: Honobono-kun, Manga, Kimihiko Tsukuda,

The fourth Blu-ray Disc/DVD volume of the Senkō no Night Raid television anime series will ship in Japan on September 22 with two unaired episodes. The volume will contain episode 6 ("Rankai no Yoru" or Ominous Night), which did air on television, and episode 7 ("Jihen" or Incident), which was streamed for free instead of televised. In addition, the volume will add another unaired episode called "Ahenkutsu no Akuma" (Devil of the Opium Den) as well as "Yogen" (Prediction) — the special episode that replaced "Jihen" in the television broadcast.

Like the previous volumes, the fourth volume will also include an alternate "Japanese dubbing" track (in which the original cast dubs the anime entirely in Japanese instead of both Japanese and Chinese) and an audio commentary. The Limited first edition will bundle postcard and booklet extras.

Keyword: Ahenktsu no Akuma, Yogen, DVD, Blue-ray Disc, Japanese

At it's Anime Expo 2010 industry panel, Digital Manga Publishing announced the following licences:

DMP Licenses:

June Licenses: 

801 Media Licenses:

DMP has also announced that mangaka Nao Yazawa, creator of Wedding Peach, will create a manga specifically for DMP's eManga. Additionally , DMP has partnered with Viz Media to act as the exclusive distributor for a small series of hand-painted Naruto animation cels priced at $60 each.

Keyword: DMPA, Manga, Anime Expo 2010