The Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells film on the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan will screen in New York City on October 25 at 1:00 p.m. ET in a hall in the United Nations Headquarters’ library as part of the organization’s Disarmament Week. Seiji Arihara’s movie is based on a true story of a [...]

The ComiPress manga information site is posting online an authorized English translation of Manga Zombie, a 1997 book by “subculture researcher” Takeo Udagawa on 31 artists that created underground manga after World War II, but before widespread commercialization changed the field in the Eighties. Translator John Gallagher will post chapters from the 186-page book on [...]

Leeds Film Fest to also show Vexille, Tekkonkinkreet, manga movies

Paprika director Kon, Vampire Hunter D director Ashida among them

The Animate TV website has posted a four-minute promotional video (narrowband or broadband) for the second volume of the Saiyuki Reload: Burial video prequel to the Saiyuki mythological adventure series. ADV Films released the first Saiyuki television series, and Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. released the Saiyuki Reload and Saiyuki Reload Gunlock series. Although the Burial [...]